Modern property rights are neither fixed nor natural. Instead, they are historically constituted and legally enforced through dispossession and remain tied to unequal societal relations, shaping every aspect of our social belonging.
Belonging Otherwise: The Violence of Property Read More »
Capitalist realism has created a pervasive atmosphere in which it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, and making art has become a matter of imitation and recycling old styles.
80s nostalgia, Stranger Things, and the Slow Cancellation of the Future Read More »
Pedro Almodóvar’s film Pepi, Luci, Bom functions as both a cinematic experiment and a manifesto for the Movida ethos, celebrating everything excess and the radical possibility of reshaping identity in the wake of repression.
Anarchy in Madrid: Pepi, Luci, Bom as Political Manifesto Read More »
Disappointment — especially in the failed promises of capitalism and democracy — is a driving force in contemporary American and global politics.
The New Great Disappointment Read More »
Societal impressions of people and their pain are shaped by interlocking oppressions, such as racism, sexism, misogyny, colourism, capitalism, ableism, and much more.
On Hard Truths and Soft Hearts Read More »
Caste capitalism is a way of understanding how caste-based violence and marginalization are concomitant with the reification of endogamy and a rule of dispossession. The rise of authoritarianism around the world is producing myriad intersecting crises, the most overt at this point in time being crises of territorial expansion. We have all been watching
The Uses of Caste Capitalism: A Frame for Dispossession in Authoritarian Times Read More »
The historically marginalised sanitation workers in India are subject to new layers of exploitation and control through technological surveillance. Addressing this will require challenging deeper issues of caste-based exploitation and capitalist dehumanisation.
The 1980s and ’90s saw the emergence of Postcolonial theory and its many avatars. But is it as radical as its proponents claim, or does it instead promote ‘racial essentialism’ in the guise of radicalism?
Postcolonial Theory and the Postcolonial World Read More »
