Tanha

Kind of a sequel to my earlier essay on shutting up and proving.

Sep 14 • Rajesh Kasturirangan

Shut Up and Prove

TLDR; We are at an asteroid hitting the earth level of crisis of intellectual life.

Sep 9 • Rajesh Kasturirangan

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August 2026

Sinosophy

The Monkey Goes East

Aug 10 • Rajesh Kasturirangan

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July 2026

Habitability: Recasting the Planetarity Syllabus

Epistry

Jul 27 • Rajesh Kasturirangan

The Dharma of the Forest in the Mahabharata | Note #21, Praani

An itihasic reading of ecological violence and more-than-human justice

Published on Field Notes • Jul 20

You Don’t Need a Brain to Have a Mind

Welcome to Cellosophy

Published on Cellosophy • Jul 16

The offside algorithm: what the World Cup taught me about our AI future

Another one-off piece based on a conversation with Richard Russell; regular programming will be restarting soon.

Jul 9 • Rajesh Kasturirangan

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The US at 250: The Promise and the Violence of the Blank Slate

This is a one-off essay marking the occasion of the semiquincentennial (that’s 250 in the common tongue).

Jul 4 • Rajesh Kasturirangan

May 2026

The Planetarity Syllabus. Habitability, Part II: From the Outside In

I am going to take a break from writing.

May 12 • Rajesh Kasturirangan

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Cognitive Sovereignty

This is a consolidated (and long) essay on the AI Polyconflict, but recast as Cognitive Sovereignty, in the same vein as the earlier consolidated essay…

May 7 • Rajesh Kasturirangan

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The Planetarity Syllabus. Habitability, Part I: Framing the Issue

The Principle of Habitability

May 5 • Rajesh Kasturirangan

April 2026

Polyconflicts #9. The AI Polyconflict, Part V: Cognitive Imperialism

Preface

Apr 30 • Rajesh Kasturirangan

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