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Enlightenment liberalism fragmented the world by neglecting the social nature of the self, Romantics can tell us how to restore a shared sense of meaning and purpose. Adam Gopnik on Charles Taylor's Cosmic Connections in The New Yorker: newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

I’m pleased to announce my intellectual history of Critical Legal Studies will be published at the end of the month. If you’re interested in reading or reviewing the book, feel free to get in touch! #cls #criticallegalstudies #legaltheory #jurisprudence

After more than a decade in the making, I’m thrilled to announce that my first book will be published with Stanford Press on September 24, 2024! Very grateful for the generous endorsements from Beatrice Jauregui Neve Gordon Stuart Schrader sup.org/books/title/?i…

Karen E. Fields, sociologist, scholar of West African religion, translator of Emile Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life, co-author with her sister Barbara J. Fields of Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life, died yesterday morning. havenswrightcenter.wisc.edu/2013/10/08/rac…

Clearing up a misconception here that is pretty common: a broad range of data suggest Indian Americans reliably vote Democratic and have done so for some time. In fact, they’ve been among the Democratic Party’s most loyal constituencies carnegieendowment.org/research/2020/…

The last stage in the book journey. After living for so very long on a computer screen, it's finally arrived in real, material book form! Big gratitude to all who contributed along the way.

A partial view of my lastest book: "Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change. Skinner, Koselleck, Blumenberg, Rosanvallon, Foucault" (Cambridge UP, 2024) assets.cambridge.org/97810094/61191… assets.cambridge.org/97810094/61191… assets.cambridge.org/97810094/61191…

I remember the awe I felt when I read James Scott’s analysis of everyday resistance against state engineering of populations in Seeing Like the State. After that everyday resistance became a dictum in my own life as well. Scott did so much more with his writing than most others.

Just attended the book launch of James Muldoon, Mark Graham 🌃✨ & Callum Cant “Feeding the Machine: The Human Labour Powering AI” - if you want to learn more on examples of the scarce context that workers undergo to power AI and innovative future reflections- this is it!

Late to this party I know but wow easily one of the most thought-provoking and important articles written about ethnography, knowledge-production, academia. Sheer brilliance and sharp insights by Nithila Kanagasabai it’s a total #mustread tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

I’ve been overwhelmed by the response to my forthcoming book The New Empire of AI: The Future of Global Inequality. For those of you asking about pre-orders, please use this link: politybooks.com/bookdetail?boo….

My book finally has a cover!😁 Cover illustration by the insanely talented Mahima Jaju. And generous endorsements by Mukulika Banerjee, Jaffrelot Christophe, and Rahul Verma. Should be in-stock by the end of September! Big thanks to Anwesha, Saniya Puri, Qudsiya Ahmed & their team.

Thrilled to have our work recognized as central in holding a notoriously impervious industry to account time.com/7012875/amba-k… #TIME100AI There's power in saying the unpopular thing, even if there is also discomfort :) Grateful to team AI Now Institute and those we walk with ❤️

IR Book of the Week! "Rethinking the End of Empire" by Lynn Tesser. Independence is due to nationalist movements, right? Not quite. The internal movements that led to decolonization were varied. Independence was seen as a one-sized-fits-all solution. amazon.com/Rethinking-End…

🎉 My new paper "Decolonial Constitutionalism," to be published in the Chicago Journal of International Law. I define and illustrate decolonial constitutionalism in constitution-making, judicial enforcement, and supra- & sub-constitutionalism. Draft: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Hannah Arendt's syllabus for Machiavelli to Marx from 1965

Thrilled that this book is finally out. Valerian Rodrigues has been working on it for years to produce one of the most extensive works on Ambedkar’s political philosophy.

On Sept 18, a chance to watch some of the bravest filmmaking in India today. 3 short docs by Shirley Abraham & Amit Mahadesiya. A Lover's War: A Trilogy of Turmoil - The People's Forum peoplesforum.org/events/film-sc…

The first chapter from my book Ambedkar's Political Philosophy, titled 'Reading Texts and Traditions', is now available to read as a free chapter: academic.oup.com/book/57546/cha…

"New workshop series on digital ethics sparks multidisciplinary interest" Yale News about the workshop I'm running at Yale: yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/09/1… The lectures are recorded and are made available as soon as possible on our website: dec.yale.edu/programs/digit…