Rishita Chaudhary
@rish_yossarian
multi-hyphenate
tech policy, media & society
Rishita Chaudhary
“Everyone wants to attend parties, but no one wants to throw them. We just expect them to appear when we need them, like fire trucks. My point is that we are obligated to create the social world we want. Intimacy, togetherness—the opposite of the crushing loneliness so many people seem to feel—are what parties alchemize.” As someone who tends to ho
... See moreHow can each piece of ‘writing’ be more than the sum of its parts? In broadening this view of time, I find particular resonance in the text 10 Theses on the Archive, written by founding members of the Public Access Digital Media Archive (Pad.ma). “Don’t wait for the archive,” they say to us, because: “To not wait for the archive is to enter the riv... See more
Difference between Imaginary and Imaginal
Imaginary is something that takes you away from reality like you imagining a pink elephant.
Imaginal is something that relates to reality, kinda like what children do with dolls. They have real toys but then they'll imagine the toys have lives and what not
Like every time I'm in a club or some techno place, I
... See more“I was struck by what Stephen Jay Gould called the ‘excruciating complexity and intractability’ of nonhuman bodies,” Bennett writes. “But, in being struck, I realized that the capacity of these bodies was not restricted to a passive ‘intractability’ but also included the ability to make things happen, to produce effects.” Bennett likes to reference... See more
Morgan Meis • The Philosopher Who Believes in Living Things
These Russian conversations import the freedom of dialogues of the dead into everyday life. In some liminal space - “a stinking tavern,” a train compartment, an inn at the crossroads - time seems suspended, and people talk about the depths of their souls as if they were already living outside time.
Gandhi calls ahinsa sadhan. The concept of sadhan does not map neatly into the western framework of means. Sadhana is part of a tri-partite framework. If you wanted to understand any purposeful action you need the telos, instrument and how to use the instrument. The procedure usually doesn’t come in the binary of the means-ends framework of the Wes
... See more“At the same time, art cannot be understood in terms of purpose. As the sculptor Charles Ray has said, art is “for absolutely nothing.” To make, or experience, art is to enter a kind of free zone; it slows us down, places us in some epistemological estuary, takes us into the wild. We make art from our flaws, fragilities, perversities, from our need
... See moreBut more significantly, we carry values and beliefs and news to the places we go, and in many parts of the world, we become walking video screens and living newspapers, the only channels that can take people out of the censored limits of their homelands. In closed or impoverished places, like Pagan or Lhasa or Havana, we are the eyes and ears of th... See more
Child care isn’t just a program, it’s a human activity that undergirds all sorts of flourishing and freedom. Child care, in my view, should be seen as an American value and part of vital American social infrastructure right alongside schools and parks and libraries. Child care supports the healthy development of children, families, and communities.... See more