âRich theoretical intervention in a debate that is impossible to avoid: these statues, after all, occupy public space and cannot easily be ignoredâ
The Psychic Lives of Statues by @rahulraothariel.bsky.social reviewed in The Wire India:
m.thewire.in/article/book...
If you're close to Edinburgh highly recommend the Writing as Resistance exhibit at the Palestine museum.
the paperback edition of âThe Psychic Lives of Statuesâ is out in June 2026, with a new preface describing how India anticipated the fascination that authoritarian strongmen and tech bros have with immortalizing their ideals and idols in statues
preorder here: www.plutobooks.com/product/the-...
"when did they put us in Madame Tussauds?"
i learned so much about the city I'm from by reading Hemangini Gupta's wonderful book 'Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India' (University of California Press, 2024)
if, like me, youâve been feeling AI illiterate, consider spending two very worthwhile hours listening to @nsrnicek.bsky.social talk about what the hell is going on
all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant
đ¨NEXT EVENTđ¨
đ Book talk: âThe psychic lives of statues: reckoning with the rubble of empireâ
Discussion of Rahul Raoâs (@rahulraothariel.bsky.social) latest book
đď¸ Monday 20 April, 4pm BST (online)
đRegister here: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...
a wonderful bracingly critical review by Arko Dasgupta of 'The Psychic Lives of Statues' in @thewire.in - so grateful for this thoughtful engagement with the book in one of my favourite corners of independent media
if you work in a UK uni, drop everything and read this (not news to many of us, but sobering to have the dots joined up; the stories are outrageous and heartbreaking)
interesting and difficult listening, particularly the quite persuasive bit about why arguments from historic responsibility (every poco theoristâs bread and butter) for climate catastrophe are so politically ineffective in Europe at the moment
Journal of International Political Theory now has a Bluesky account! Follow us and get updates on some of our great articles: @j-ipt.bsky.social
please join us in St Andrews for an urgent conversation on âQueer lives in Palestineâ with the brilliant Omar Khatib
Fab event coming up at St Andrews
Queer lives in Palestine: settler colonialism and resistance
In conversation with Omar Khatib
events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/queer...
the statement by Indiaâs former chief of naval staff, Adm Arun Prakash is pretty pathetic
NOT they shouldn't have sunk a ship that was on a training exercise
BUT they shouldn't have done it on our doorstep. âThey could have delayed this action to spare India this embarrassment.â
on the once magnetic appeal of the American academy, the place of Third World migrants in its political economy, and its descent into the current hellishness (peppered with poignant anecdotes about Said and Spivak)
very illuminating conversation
thank you!
I got one of these too, from the âArlington Books and Wine Clubâ
This is what ecocide looks like.
Hegsethâs mother: âYou are an abuser of women â that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man ⌠â
