Rishita Chaudhary

To care about the etymologies of words is to care about the origins of the world’s story about itself. To broaden and deepen the meanings of words, to celebrate — as David Whyte did — “their beautiful hidden and beckoning uncertainty,” is to broaden and deepen life itself. It is of words that we build the two great pylons propping up our sense of... See more

In contemporary dance , she would advise us, you need to improvise and embody . As we practised character work as deeply as if we’d each worn the literal skin of our characters, we shed whatever limitations we had as ourselves. For the duration of each class, we were re-invented.

I often go back to those moments to remember how utterly and... See more

The great problem of consciousness is that all it knows is itself, and only dimly. We can override this elemental self-reference only with constant vigilance, reminding ourselves again and again as we forget over and over how difficult it is — how nigh impossible — to know what it is like to be anybody else. It does not come naturally to us, this... See more

We all reach for tools that save us time. But used incorrectly, AI saves us time at the expense of thoughtfulness. If you had chatGPT write all your emails and a meeting bot write all your notes, you would get your work done faster, but you’d be doing a terrible job.

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We live in a state of perpetual dissociation from the almost unbearable wonder of being alive. Wonder is always an edge state, its edge so sharp it threatens to rupture the mundane and sever us from what we mistake for reality — the TV, the townhouse, the trauma narrative. If we fell asleep each night remembering “the singularity we once were” and... See more

The subject matter can be dispiriting. But the books themselves are, I think, uplifting. None tries to ignore the brutal horror and devastation in the events it covers. None treats the victims as too remote to care about or the perpetrators as too monstrous to understand. None gives in to apathy, cynicism, or indifference. Instead, all make heroic

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It is an attack on the cruel idea that work confers dignity and therefore that people who don’t work—the old, the disabled—lack value. On the contrary, dignity is intrinsic to all human beings, and in designing a work regime rigged for the profit of the few and the exhaustion of the many, we have failed to honor one another’s humanity.