In this episode Ravi Sundaram and Ashish Rajadhyaksha speak to the art critic and curator Geeta Kapur. The long twentieth century produced powerful movements that shaped politics, aesthetics and the idea of the contemporary. In the late ...
In this episode, Prathama Banerjee speaks to Ritu Birla on how economic thinking operates as the language of governance in our contemporary. What is the relationship between law, economics and culture? What is the relationship between th...
In this episode, Baidik Bhattacharya speaks to Martin Puchner on the relationship between world literature and climate change. Is literature at all relevant in our attempt to address climate change? Does world literature as a transhistor...
In this episode, Prathama Banerjee speaks to Faisal Devji on the post Cold War phenomenon of Islamism. What is the historical relationship of Islamism with colonialism, liberalism, anarchism, communism, nationalism? What has been the cha...
In this episode, Prathama Banerjee speaks to Veena Das on the changed nature of daily life in our contemporary. Is the nature of everyday life different in post-Covid times? Has the everyday ever been a site of stability or security? Wha...
In this episode, Baidik Bhattacharya speaks to Emily Apter on translation, untranslatability, comparative literature, and the future of the humanities in a post-pandemic world. The discussion covers a range of issues like the status of h...
In this episode, Ravi Sundaram speaks to Susan Schuppli about the themes raised by her recent book Material Witness, (MIT Press, 2020) on how media technologies have transformed the aesthetic and political questions around witnessing and...
In this episode of ‘Speaking Otherwise: CSDS Podcast Series’, Prathama Banerjee speaks to Udaya Kumar on the place of passion, emotion and affect in contemporary public life. The conversation meanders around questions of self, bo...
In this episode of ‘Speaking Otherwise: CSDS Podcast Series’, Prathama Banerjee speaks to Rajeev Bhargava on the place of religion in contemporary public life. The discussion revolves around practices of secularism in India, the ...
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