Aakash Singh Rathore

New book announcement!

“Aakash Singh Rathore has given us a truly global theory of AI.”
—Slavoj Žižek

‘WILL AI MURDER US ALL?
The Moral Psychology of Artificial Intelligence’

preorder now @PenguinIndia with a 25% discount:

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An upcoming very unusual talk on Aristotle and AI at Delhi University…

Nishita Jha reflects on two powerful Hindi poems as millions of people take to the streets in India and beyond translatormag.co/poems-from-the…

My daughter mehendied me as an art project exploring how cultural practices become gendered. She applied traditionally feminine designs to my body, pairing them with masculine expressions of strength. It questions why beauty and decoration get tied to femininity while strength and muscle get tied to masculinity. Through the contrast, she aims to challenge those expectations and show how both can coexist beyond the lines society draws.

This essay presents a collaboratively curated art-based ethnographic reflection of ‘lockdown-scapes’. The artworks shared depict the peripheralised lifeworlds of queerness and Brahminical patriarchal structures against the backdrop of the COVID-19 lockdown in marginalised but resilient geographies of the neighbourhood, prison, street and dairy farm, and highlight how art and dialogue can converge to create queer lifeworlds.
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