#politics

4 Jul 2026

The US at 250: The Promise and the Violence of the Blank Slate

7 May 2026

Cognitive Sovereignty

2 Apr 2026

Polyconflicts #5. The AI Polyconflict, Part I: The changing face of kinetic warfare

27 Mar 2026

Polyconflict #4: Firewood and the Gendered Nature of Polyconflict

24 Mar 2026

Polyconflict #3: The Metformin Shock

21 Mar 2026

The Helium Shock: A Case Study in Polyconflict

20 Mar 2026

The Pauper: Polyconflicts are back.

26 Feb 2026

The Planetarity Syllabus. Governing the Planet, Part 3: The Planetary Steward

19 Feb 2026

The Planetarity Syllabus. Governing the Planet, Part 2b: Blake and Gilman's "Children of a Modest Star"

10 Feb 2026

The Planetarity Syllabus. Governing the Planet, Part 1

19 Jan 2026

A Planetarity Syllabus

19 Jan 2026

A Planetarity Syllabus

5 Jan 2026

The Monkey Goes East

5 Jan 2026

The Monkey Goes East

22 Dec 2025

Bhumics. Weekly Planet #18. Ideology vs. Metabology

22 Dec 2025

Bhumics. Weekly Planet #18. Ideology vs. Metabology

27 Oct 2025

Bhumics: The Weekly Planet # 10. On Energy Sovereignty

6 Oct 2025

Bhumics: The Weekly Planet #7 - The Petrostate

29 Sept 2025

Bhumics: The Weekly Planet #6 - Electrostates

25 Sept 2025

The Interregnum Report: Speech and Violence

17 Sept 2025

Bhumics: The Weekly Planet #4

20 Aug 2025

Bhumics: The Pauper #11

6 Aug 2025

Bhumics: The Pauper #9

22 Jun 2025

Bhumics: Polyconflict, Part 3

20 Jun 2025

Bhumics: Polyconflict, Part 2

17 Jun 2025

Bhumics: Polyconflict, Part 1

21 May 2025

Bhumics 17: The Shadow of the Beast

28 Apr 2025

Bhumics 15: The Pauper, Part 8 -- series conclusion

21 Apr 2025

Bhumics 14: The Pauper, Part 7

14 Apr 2025

Bhumics 13: The Pauper, Part 6

7 Apr 2025

Bhumics 12: The Pauper, Part 5 - The Receding Tide

31 Mar 2025

Bhumics Week 11: The Pauper, Part 4

24 Mar 2025

Bhumics Week 10: The Pauper, Part 3

17 Mar 2025

Bhumics 9: The Pauper, Part 2

10 Mar 2025

Bhumics Week 8: The Pauper, Part 1

3 Mar 2025

Bhumics Week 7: The RBIO Part 4

25 Feb 2025

Bhumics Week 6: The RBIO Part 3

18 Feb 2025

Bhumics Week 5: The RBIO Part 2

11 Feb 2025

Bhumics Week 4: The RBIO Part 1

4 Feb 2025

Bhumics Week 3: “The Pauper”

28 Jan 2025

Bhumics Week 2

21 Jan 2025

Bhumics, Part 1

21 Jan 2025

Bhumics, Part 1

28 Aug 2024

Political Intelligence 4: The Deep State

24 Aug 2024

Attention: Pay Interest Now

19 Aug 2024

Political Intelligence 2: The Hard Problem

12 Aug 2024

Humainity: Introducing Political Intelligence

30 Apr 2024

Being Human in the Age of AI, Part 7

23 Jan 2023

Regime Change: Global Times

3 Jan 2023

Regime Change: The Transition from the Globe to the Planet

8 Nov 2022

Normalizing the Planet 1

1 Nov 2022

Thinking the Planet

19 Oct 2022

Is better better than best?

10 Oct 2022

Looking at the Climate Aslant

15 Sept 2022

TGL4: Commodity Imperialism

13 Sept 2022

TGL2: It ended with a bang

12 Sept 2022

TGL1: Tagore and Gandhi in the shadow of Lenin

15 Aug 2022

Planetary India: seventy five years of Indian Independence

24 Jun 2022

Factors of Accumulation III

20 Jun 2022

Second Contact Part II

10 Jun 2022

On Contradiction II

9 Jun 2022

On Contradiction I

8 Jun 2022

The Good Things Behind Bad Things

3 Jun 2022

Planet as Prefix V

16 May 2022

Climate Leviathan 4

9 May 2022

Climate Leviathan 2

2 May 2022

C8: Climate, Capital, Cities, Code + Contingency, Crisis, Contradiction, Change

15 Apr 2022

Spring Overflow

4 Mar 2022

Regime Change: Time Out

3 Mar 2022

Regime Change: FOW 2. Mad for MAD

2 Mar 2022

Regime Change: The Convoy

1 Mar 2022

Reality Media 9: The Moon Landing for the Metaverse

1 Mar 2022

Regime Change: Think Globally, Vote Locally

28 Feb 2022

Regime Change: FOW 1

27 Feb 2022

Regime Change: Trigger Warning

26 Feb 2022

Reality Media VIII: On violence in the Metaverse

26 Feb 2022

Regime Change: Zelensky

25 Feb 2022

Regime Change

12 Feb 2022

M19: Reality Media, Part III

1 Feb 2022

M16: Text and the City, Part IV

21 Dec 2021

M11: 2021 --> 2022

12 Mar 2021

Kyborg 25: SOS9

11 Mar 2021

Kyborg 24: SOS8

9 Feb 2021

Kyborg 2: Truth and Conspiracy

22 Jan 2021

T2B: Over and Out

21 Jan 2021

T2B56: The End of the Road

20 Jan 2021

T2B55: Viden 9

19 Jan 2021

T2B54: Viden 8

16 Jan 2021

T2B53: Viden 7

15 Jan 2021

T2B52: Viden 6

14 Jan 2021

T2B51: Viden 5

13 Jan 2021

T2B50: Viden 4

12 Jan 2021

T2B49: Ziden 5

11 Jan 2021

T2B48: Ziden 4

10 Jan 2021

T2B47: Ziden 3

9 Jan 2021

T2B46: Ziden 2

8 Jan 2021

T2B45: Ziden 1

7 Jan 2021

T2B44: Viden 3

6 Jan 2021

T2B43: Viden 2

5 Jan 2021

T2B42: Viden 1

19 Dec 2020

T2B40: Cliden 13

18 Dec 2020

T2B39: Cliden 12

17 Dec 2020

T2B38: Cliden 11

16 Dec 2020

T2B37: Cliden 10

15 Dec 2020

T2B36: Cliden 9

14 Dec 2020

T2B35: Cliden 8

13 Dec 2020

T2B34: Cliden 7

12 Dec 2020

T2B33: Cliden 6

11 Dec 2020

T2B32: Cliden 5

9 Dec 2020

T2B30: Cliden 3

8 Dec 2020

T2B29: Cliden 2

7 Dec 2020

T2B28: Cliden 1

6 Dec 2020

T2B27: Transitioning to Climate

5 Dec 2020

T2B26: Xiden 11

4 Dec 2020

T2B25: Xiden 10

3 Dec 2020

T2B24: Xiden 9

1 Dec 2020

T2B22: Xiden 7

30 Nov 2020

T2B21: Xiden 6

29 Nov 2020

T2B20: Iran on my mind

27 Nov 2020

T2B18: Xiden 5

26 Nov 2020

T2B17: Xiden 4

25 Nov 2020

T2B16: Xiden 3 - Capitalist Theology

24 Nov 2020

T2B15: Xiden 2 - Confucian Capitalism

23 Nov 2020

T2B14: Xiden

22 Nov 2020

T2B13: Understanding the present

21 Nov 2020

T2B12: The Production of Misery

20 Nov 2020

T2B11: Obama to Trump

19 Nov 2020

T2B10: The Trump phenomenon

18 Nov 2020

T2B9: A Special Transmission

17 Nov 2020

T2B8: People Worth Watching III

16 Nov 2020

T2B7: People Worth Watching II

14 Nov 2020

T2B6: People worth watching I

13 Nov 2020

T2B5: I've got your back

12 Nov 2020

T2B4: Trolling the Transition

11 Nov 2020

From Trump to Biden III: Political Contagion

10 Nov 2020

From Trump to Biden II: Will he leave?

9 Nov 2020

From Trump to Biden: A Daily Post Until Jan 20th

3 Aug 2020

Migrant Stories

30 May 2020

EL5 Citizenship

22 May 2020

When the Exception Becomes the Rule, Part II

22 May 2020

When the Exception Becomes the Rule: Part I

15 May 2020

Promissory notes

9 May 2020

The Citizenship Stack: Political Technology

2 May 2020

Conserving Citizenship

25 Apr 2020

Participatory Citizenship

15 Apr 2020

Skillful Citizenship

10 Apr 2020

Public Problem Solving

3 Apr 2020

Covideos

28 Mar 2020

Trust Centered Design

19 Mar 2020

Everything's fair in war and disease

12 Feb 2020

The Demented Style of Politics

9 Jan 2020

Political Thought(s)

30 Aug 2019

Startup Thinking

24 Aug 2019

The Failing State

14 Aug 2019

Introducing the Animal Left

10 Aug 2019

The Great Game 2.0

8 Aug 2019

The State of Algorithmic Politics

8 Aug 2019

The State of Algorithmic Politics

6 Jul 2019

Why is Liberalism in Trouble?

6 Jul 2019

Why is Liberalism in Trouble?

3 Jul 2019

Dystopian links

29 Jun 2019

Every Utopia becomes a Dystopia

29 Jun 2019

Utopias become Dystopias

26 Jun 2019

Some links on Technophilia

19 Jun 2019

Thompson in India: Links

15 Jun 2019

Thompson in India

12 Jun 2019

The Form of the World

9 Jun 2019

The Form of the World

30 May 2019

Bits of India 2: The Secularism of the RSS

30 May 2019

Newsletter 10: Bits of India (2)

24 May 2019

Bits of India: Introduction

24 May 2019

Newsletter 9: Bits of India (1)

12 Mar 2019

Newsletter 4: How to do Indian philosophy today

6 Mar 2019

The Bots of War

4 Mar 2019

DHK: Desi Henry Kissinger

4 Mar 2019

Newsletter 3: Desi Henry Kissinger

12 Dec 2018

Newsletter 23: Geocracy

11 Dec 2018

Geocracy

1 Dec 2018

Newsletter 22: Our Planetary Condition

1 Dec 2018

The Planetary Condition

14 Nov 2018

Revolution isn’t Enough

11 Nov 2018

Regulating Monopolies

5 Nov 2018

The Emergent Design of Failure

3 Nov 2018

Newsletter 21: The Climate of Conservatism

3 Nov 2018

The Climate of Conservatism

3 Nov 2018

The Climate of Conservatism

22 Oct 2018

Newsletter 20: Sweatshop Finance

25 Sept 2018

Back to the Future

25 Sept 2018

Back to the Future

12 Sept 2018

Hard Laddoo Politics and the Viagra of History

12 Sept 2018

Hard Laddoo Politics and the Viagra of History

12 Sept 2018

Newsletter 18: The Viagra of History

24 Jul 2018

Newsletter 16: Learned Helplessness and the logic of lynchings

23 Jul 2018

Lynchings are acts of terror

23 Jul 2018

Lynchings are acts of terror

28 Apr 2018

Newsletter 6: Cultivating the Nation

4 Apr 2018

Stop Comparing Climate Change to the Second World War

26 Feb 2018

Planetarity: the ABCs of our planetary future

19 Feb 2017

As in genociding the original inhabitants of the Americas, bringing millions of slaves from other…

21 Jan 2017

Against Jallikattu

31 Dec 2016

Jayary Newsletter # 104

27 Dec 2016

Jayary Newsletter # 103

17 Dec 2016

I am quite certain that development is linear theology in secular form and in that sense we are all…

10 Dec 2016

Cashless Crusaders I: Hindi-Chini Bhai Bhai?

25 Nov 2016

Alternate Dystopias

24 Nov 2016

Demonetizing small business

20 Nov 2016

Permanent Demonetization

16 Nov 2016

The Anti-Corruption Cult

4 Oct 2016

Is Economic Freedom Important?

13 Oct 2015

Data is Power

13 Oct 2015

Freedom to Write

13 Oct 2015

Freedom to Write

2 Oct 2015

Assassinating Gandhi’s Character

2 Oct 2015

Assassinating Gandhi’s Character

10 Sept 2015

Revenge

8 Jun 2015

Newsletter 45: Divide and Conquer

9 Apr 2015

Development Dreams: Newsletter #37

21 Mar 2015

Public Private Partnerships: Newsletter #34

21 Feb 2015

The Higher Superstition: Newsletter #30

14 Feb 2015

Moral Luck: Newsletter #29.

8 Feb 2015

Probabilistic inequality: newsletter #28

25 Jan 2015

The right to offend: newsletter #26

13 Sept 2014

Weekly Newsletter #7: Data

12 Sept 2014

Weekly Newsletter #7, September 12th 2014: Data

8 Aug 2014

Rajesh Newsletter. August 8, 2014. "Unity in Diversity"

8 Aug 2014

Weekly Newsletter #2: 8th August, 2014. Unity in Diversity

1 Aug 2014

The Frog in the Data Well

1 Aug 2014

The Frog in the Data Well

24 Jul 2014

The Necessity of Economic Freedom

20 Jul 2014

The Nanny Family

1 Nov 2013

UMART: The Commoditization of Knowledge. Part 1.

11 Sept 2012

The National Commons

26 Aug 2012

Where’s the public in public administration?

7 Aug 2012

Traffic sense

3 Aug 2012

Politics beyond politicians

25 Apr 2012

Rights and Responsibilities

6 Mar 2012

The Viability of Political Formations

16 Jun 2011

Doing Justice to an Idea

11 Dec 2006

Pinochet is Dead

12 Nov 2006

Strongmen-itis

9 Nov 2006

Midterm Corrections

6 Nov 2006

The Morality of Nation States

1 Nov 2006

Nationalisms Revisited

4 Oct 2006

Karnataka Bandh

4 Oct 2006

The End of European History.

17 Sept 2006

Swallowing the beast.

9 Sept 2006

The Identity Politics of International Travel.

3 Sept 2006

How not to fight corruption

18 Aug 2006

What’s wrong with this picture?

18 Dec 2005

Doniger’s demons.

10 Dec 2005

The New York Times and Liberal Racism

2 Dec 2005

India’s Nuclear Conundrum

1 Dec 2005

Are NGO leaders our new Gurus?