Tag: critical theory

Fixated on AI, the world has forgotten what is staring it in the face: nuclear annihilation

This is no scoffing matter. The accelerating proliferation of advanced nuclear weapons is bringing ‘end times’ closer by the day Simon Tisdall Humankind has fearfully and sometimes joyfully anticipated the end of the world ever since it began. The Bible’s Book of Revelation speaks of “end times”, a period of tribulation, war, famine, plague, floods… Read More Fixated on AI, the world has forgotten what is staring it in the face: nuclear annihilation

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In three years, Israel’s war on Gaza hasn’t just changed the Middle East, it’s changed the world

A whirlpool of violence has engulfed everywhere from Lebanon to Yemen. Meanwhile, the west has destroyed any political authority it once had Steve Bloomfield There was a world before 7 October, 2023, and now there is a world after. For Gaza, for Israel, for the wider Middle East, and for everyone else too. Not all… Read More In three years, Israel’s war on Gaza hasn’t just changed the Middle East, it’s changed the world

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The present Indian govt is one of the biggest committers of ecocide in the world today

NB: It’s not planet Earth that is in danger, its sustainable life which is in danger. The planet will continue to exist long after we have destroyed ourselves. DS The present Indian govt is one of the biggest committers of ecocide in the world today Author and Blogger Avay Shukla to Karan Thapar for The… Read More The present Indian govt is one of the biggest committers of ecocide in the world today

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Cheques and imbalances: the taming of the Election Commission of India (2024)

The latest investigation by The Indian Express found that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had formally objected at least 14 times over ten months to decisions concerning voter registration, deletions and the centralisation of the voter database.…Over the past decade, the ECI has been criticised for allowing the Bharatiya Janata Party to… Read More Cheques and imbalances: the taming of the Election Commission of India (2024)

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Viet Thanh Nguyen -To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a bold call for expansive political solidarity. The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures Born in war-ravaged Vietnam, Viet Nguyen arrived in the United States as a child refugee in 1975. The Nguyen family would… Read More Viet Thanh Nguyen -To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other

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कॉकरोच के दौर में शिक्षा पर पुनर्विचार | Rethinking Education in the Year of the Cockroach

 आर्यमान जैन और इरिना चीमा / Aryaman Jain and Irina Cheema देश में चल रहे युवा आंदोलन ने हम सब को शिक्षा और युवाओं के भविष्य पे सोचने को मजबूर कर दिया है। तत्कालीन मुद्दा NEET एग्ज़ाम में पेपर लीक का है लेकिन आंदोलन में दिख रही ऊर्जा बताती है की बात उस से ज़्यादा… Read More कॉकरोच के दौर में शिक्षा पर पुनर्विचार | Rethinking Education in the Year of the Cockroach

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‘Hitler was a lazy criminal who slept in until noon’: why most of what we think we know about the rise of the Nazis is wrong

Philip Oltermann In a new book, German artist and writer Philipp Ruch argues that viewing the ascent of Hitler’s NSDAP through the prism of the Third Reich has distorted our understanding of fascism’s electoral breakthrough With your art collective Centre for Political Beauty you famously built a replica of the Holocaust memorial on a property… Read More ‘Hitler was a lazy criminal who slept in until noon’: why most of what we think we know about the rise of the Nazis is wrong

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What about Gyanesh Kumar’s backroom collaborators?

Only a forensic audit and a full inquiry can determine their level of administrative culpability in this massive exclusion of voters ‘First Time Since Independence So Many Voters Lost Voting Rights’: Ex-CEC O.P. Rawat on SIR Exercise Bharat Bhushan The legal plea of ‘just following orders’ (known as the Nuremberg defence) is untenable in modern… Read More What about Gyanesh Kumar’s backroom collaborators?

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Second-Class Citizens

How the persistence of American Islamophobia makes it painfully clear that we are still living with the War on Terror Rozina Ali – Interviewed by Jonathan Shainin  Twenty-five years after 11 September, it is hard to separate Islamophobia in America from the shock of that morning, as if everything since was caused by its impact.… Read More Second-Class Citizens

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