Rishita Chaudhary
@rish_yossarian
multi-hyphenate
tech policy, media & society
Rishita Chaudhary
Difference between Propositional and Perspectival Knowledge
Propositional knowing: knowing that is something the case
Persperctival knowledge - knowing what’s it’s like to be you in your state of mind, here, right now.
The parenting thing is that a couple is always fundamentally at an informational asymmetry about making a decision on whether or not
... See moreMany thinkers (including Einstein) discuss creativity as a kind of “combinatory play.” Reading gives us more pieces to play with—more combinatory possibilities. Just as honey from different regions takes on different flavors, the combination of our reading produces different flavors in our own thought and writing.
Gandhi is not an anti-modern as much as an internal critique. The kind of modernity that arose in Europe which he saw spreading in India, he said there were alternative of modernity, which did not take the same route as Europe. There might be a different modernity.
we open each meeting by asking a simple question: what is keeping you alive today? this allows us to revel in the sometimes small motions that get us to the Next Thing. yes, i did not want to get out of bed this morning, but there was one single long shard of sunlight that stumbled in through a tear in my curtains, and the warmth of it hitting my a... See more
He described modernity’s obsession with Machen —do/make—as the belief that only what we can build, manipulate, or produce is real. This becomes the default metaphysics of acceleration: faster iteration, more output, more control. But Ratzinger contrasts this with another mode of being: Verstehen and Stehen —to understand and to stand. That is, to s... See more
Luke Burgis • Everything Is Fast
What’s so annoying about these cultures is that they blatantly position the individual at the center of everything without being able to understand the need for care and various networks that would have to go into maintaining something over thousands of years. What infrastructures do you need in place, what kinds of labor, what kinds of storytellin... See more
Tamara Kneese • Who Gets to Live Forever? A Conversation about Biotechno-solutionism with Tamara Kneese and Santiago Sanchez
A large percentage of people’s problems in work, love and life are due to some combination of vagueness and passivity. You don’t know what you want to spend your time on; you don’t know what kind of person you really get along with; you don’t know what kind of clothing looks good to you; you don’t know what you value in a city; you don’t know how t... See more
Ava • Why You Should Write More
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