“It is as ridiculous to yearn for a return to that original fullness as it is to believe that with this complete emptiness history has come to a standstill. The bourgeois viewpoint has never advanced beyond this antithesis between itself and this romantic viewpoint, and therefore the latter will accompany it as legitimate antithesis up […]
This is a full recording of my session at the All The Rage conference on Saturday 28th February 2015. See also, my post, I’m with motion. and my podcast, Lessons from India: towards a global analysis of sexual violence.
Globalisation – i.e., the time-space compression of the past twenty to twenty five years – is dialectical. A new phase of capitalism has given birth to contradictory tensions that have long been pregnant and kicking. Globalisation is an interplay of forces demanding the future and forces heralding the past. It straddles both static and motion. I’m with motion. […]
Here is a podcast based on the lead-off that I gave at the Ideas for Freedom conference on the weekend of 22nd/23rd June 2013, I hope you find it of some political and intellectual use: (Image from Wikimedia Commons: December 22, students protest the rising violence against women, Raisina Hill/ Rajpath)
Anaemic On A Bike 