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Who Governs Capitalism?
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Who Governs Capitalism?

The American Midterms and the Politics of Economic Power The Democrats have won Congress on promises of economic relief and political accountability. Yet many of the decisions shaping Americans’ economic insecurity remain beyond electoral control, protected by the lawful powers of ownership and investment. The election raises a question that goes deeper than the familiar…
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Where Politics Happens
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Where Politics Happens

A Generation in Revolt and the Problem of Political Form Gen Z is often treated as a demographic fact or a media category.  From protests against examination irregularities in India and lycée revolts in France to Bangladesh and the American university, young people have challenged institutions that govern their futures and determine the terms of…
October 11, 20260Comments

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No One Counts Shadows
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No One Counts Shadows

Tabish Khair’s Gothic reckoning: a refugee returns as a shadow to haunt the ruins of liberal orthodoxy. A review of Tabish Khair, Drown All the Refugees (HarperCollins India, 2026)1 The loudest sentence in Tabish Khair’s new novel is its title. It is designed to offend, and it does. The quieter sentence comes a few pages…
September 11, 20260Comments

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The Right to Be Ordinary
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The Right to Be Ordinary

Jason Arday and the Racial Politics of Britain Now Professor Jason Arday’s tragic story sits where three racial logics collide: the declining solidarities of British political Blackness; the corporate and institutional representationalism that followed Black Lives Matter; and a restorationist Right that treats conspicuous Black advancement as presumptive evidence that merit has been displaced. B…
August 23, 20260Comments

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When the Oar Leaves the Sea
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When the Oar Leaves the Sea

Christopher Nolan returns Homer to the scale of cinematic spectacle. More than half a century earlier, Sitanshu Yashaschandra’s Odysseusnu Halesu followed the oar beyond Ithaca, using its estrangement to rethink homecoming, poetic authority and the unequal life of world literature. Christopher Nolan has returned Homer to the scale at which contemporary culture most readily…
August 8, 20260Comments

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Out of Syllabus: Language, Ideology and the New Vernacular Against Political Orthodoxy
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Out of Syllabus: Language, Ideology and the New Vernacular Against Political Orthodoxy

India’s Gen Z revolt did not stop at mocking Modi. It entered the home, broke the family relay through which Hindutva reproduced itself, and turned inherited obedience into open political defiance. To understand the language of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), one must resist deciding in advance what kind of politics it represents. The movement…
July 29, 20260Comments

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The State of Waiting
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The State of Waiting

Paper Leaks, Hunger Strikes, and the Politics of Exhaustion “This ‘Wait’ has almost always meant ‘Never.’”                               —Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963 I. The Temporal Constitution Every democracy possesses a temporal constitution. Like every political order, it distributes time before it distributes resources: deciding who must wait,…
July 20, 20260Comments

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Falsafa Goes Viral
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Falsafa Goes Viral

Pakistan’s YouTube philosophy boom marks the rise of a vernacular counter-university: born of educational failure, religious anxiety, youth precarity, creator culture, and algorithmic theatre. Its promise is access. Its danger is the glamour of certainty before the discipline of thought.  A recent graduation speech by Dr Nauman Naqvi at Habib University gives us a precise…
June 14, 20260Comments

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Non-Alignment as Method
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Non-Alignment as Method

Atreyee Gupta’s Non-Aligned does not simply recover a forgotten Third World modernism; it asks whether modernism itself must be rethought when decolonization, development, and anti-imperial thought are treated as conditions of form. Modernism’s problem was never simply that it excluded the rest of the world. Its deeper violence was that it made Europe’s experience…
May 2, 20260Comments

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