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Sahil Sasidharan

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PhDing in human geography @UW-Madison | Researching digitally mediated urbanization in Delhi's villages | 'To philosophize is to live freely'

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Sahil Sasidharan @sahilsasidharan.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
On 16 Dec'25, Prof. Klaus Vieweg, FSU, global icon in Hegel studies—author of intellectual biography 'Hegel: The Philosopher of Freedom' (Stanford U Press, 2023)—& Prof. Viren Murthy, History@UW-Madison discuss Hegel's philosophy for modern times at IIC Delhi with BML Munjal University & RIG6 @ CESI
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Sahil Sasidharan @sahilsasidharan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Fascinating insights into the technics of digitalized propertization that is underway across rural and peri-urban India:
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Sahil Sasidharan @sahilsasidharan.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Excitedly anticipating this because as Zizek affirms in his blurb for Harvey's Story of Capital: [T]"His book is for everyone who wants to really understand the mess we are in, which means – it is for everyone."
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Sahil Sasidharan @sahilsasidharan.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Fascinatingly critical retheorization of southern urban': "Increasingly 'unprecedented' risks compel us to retheorize the South and what it means to think the “unthinkable” as a variegated politics of improvisation and duration mediated by force and resistance located through repair practices ..."
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Sahil Sasidharan @sahilsasidharan.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Prof. Jyoti Dalal, Asst. Prof. Chetan Anand and I are coordinating a ‘Weekly Reading Workshop’ on Lacanian philosopher/social theorist Alenka Zupancic's "What is Sex?" organised by RIG-6 'Philosophy of Education' & RIG-8 'Education and Marginal Groups' of the Comparative Education Society of India:
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Sahil Sasidharan @sahilsasidharan.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Sounds like a fascinating line up at my alma mater.
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Sahil Sasidharan @sahilsasidharan.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Attended launch of 'Across the Nala: A Queer Dalit Bahujan Zine of Stories from Delhi', an @urbanstudiesfoundation.org + Jindal Global University event sharing stories from marginalised geographies. Also heard a land acknowledgment for displaced villages in Lutyens Delhi! theprint.in/feature/arou...
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Drains to dating apps—Dalit queer booklet maps Delhi’s unspoken caste geography
‘Across the Nala’, a collaborative effort between Project Mukti, Unsound Project, and the Urban Studies Foundation, was launched at the Centre for Justice, OP Jindal Global University.
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Sahil Sasidharan @sahilsasidharan.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Dr. Ori Simchen's paper called “Law” argued that meaning is shaped by intended function: “It illustrates why it’s important to have universities teaching subjects like philosophy or linguistics—anything that doesn’t have a very obvious application in the short term. It took 22 years for this ...”
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Monique Ligtenberg @moniqueligtenberg.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
PhD Opportunity in Global History Join our team at ETH Zurich for the SNSF-funded project Engineering Empire. 4 years, fully funded. Applicants from marginalized groups are particularly welcome. More details:
jobs.ethz.ch
PhD Position in Global History
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Sahil Sasidharan @sahilsasidharan.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
A clear geopolitical failure of democratic neocolonial-imperial states that the majority world has to now turn to militarized autocratic rule and powers (such as Russia's Wagner Group) to achieve self-determination and regional security without overtly oppressive defensive allies:
capitalismraceanddemocracy.org
Sahel Sovereignty Rises; AFL-CIO’s Foreign Arm Defunded; Code Pink Calls Out Hands Off Hypocrisy; Federal Workers Fight Echoes PATCO - Pacifica Radio's Capitalism, Race and Democracy
Between 2021 and 2023 West Africa saw three popular military coups. Assimi Goïta became the president of Mali in 2021, Ibrahim Traoré became the president of Burkina Faso in 2022, and Abdourahamane Tc...
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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
I appreciated this gifted article making the rounds everywhere (otherwise paywalled). On my course syllabi the past semester, I started having an AI policy, and this will definitely get added as reading for that. This explained the problems for electricity grid in clear way.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
the grift will continue until the consultancies and ed-tech partners have destroyed every.single.public.university. "$51 million dollars. That’s how much money the UW System paid Chicago-based Huron Consulting Group between 2019 and 2023." www.wortfm.org/uw-system-sp...
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UW System spends millions on consultants - WORT-FM 89.9
The UW System paid Chicago-based Huron Consulting Group $51 million between 2019 and 2023, WORT found through an open records request.
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Sahil Sasidharan @sahilsasidharan.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Most heartening dimension of Gukesh winning the world chess championship, and of his strategy, is his explicit emphasis on psychological and physical conditioning, and how importantly Gukesh regards the role played by Paddy Upton, a non-chess sports coach (of cricket), in this. Thus: the 18th at 18!
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a man with a beard is wearing a jacket that says west on it .
ALT: a man with a beard is wearing a jacket that says west on it .
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Sahil Sasidharan @sahilsasidharan.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
TIL about the naming of the term 'algorithm'. A 12thC work by Central Asian Muslim scholar al-Khwārizmī introduced Hindu-Arabic numerals and arithmetic to the West. Its preservation in Latin titled Algoritmi de numero Indorum (“Al-Khwārizmī Concerning the Hindu Art of Reckoning”) led to this name.
britannica.com
Al-Khwarizmi | Biography & Facts | Britannica
Al-Khwarizmi, Muslim mathematician and astronomer whose major works introduced Hindu-Arabic numerals and the concepts of algebra into European mathematics. Latinized versions of his name and of his mo...
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Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
A reminder: looking for PhD project applications around 2 topics✨ 'Digital Futures of Physical Retail'(co-supervised w B Hracs) thomasdekeyser.com/s/Digital-Fu... 'AI geographies of human-animal relations'(co-supervised w @emmajroe.bsky.social) thomasdekeyser.com/s/AI-geograp... Links = details
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Sahil Sasidharan @sahilsasidharan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
It's this framing that lies at the center of our perennial question of freedom: “You ain’t free less me and the law say you free” (Warren Calvin's Ontological Terror, 2018, 24), as it then poses the problem of whether one sees law as the Other or not, and thus as capable of freeing oneself or not.
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Sahil Sasidharan @sahilsasidharan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
From 'living' under unregulated capitalism to 'dying' for it:
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Sahil Sasidharan @sahilsasidharan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Secor & Anderson (2024) quite succinctly (re)define the intellectual crisis of our time: reconciling affect and ideology at mutual points of slippage to open new possibilities as "to even articulate the problem of the relation between the sensed and known requires a new conceptual vocabulary." (7)
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Sahil Sasidharan @sahilsasidharan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Joined this new space for digitally-mediated dialogue on a wonderful day: World Philosophy Day. Quite apt indeed.
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