Rishita Chaudhary
@rish_yossarian
multi-hyphenate
tech policy, media & society
Rishita Chaudhary
I think it's about making that semantic claim that creates a framework for committed action.
committed seriousness creates its own gravity
It was from Augustine that she borrowed the phrase amor mundi — “love of the world” — which would become a defining feature of her philosophy. Occupied by questions of why we succumb to and normalize evil, Arendt identified as the root of tyranny the act of making other human beings irrelevant. Again and again, she returned to Augustine for the ant... See more
Maria Popova • Hannah Arendt on Love and How to Live with the Fundamental Fear of Loss
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 completel... See more
I often go back to those moments to remember how utterly and completel... See more
where you begin is not where you end
In Woolf's words, it made us ask: "But why live at all”
For those who had lost religious faith, Russian literature became the place to contemplate essentially religious questions, and for those who retained
it, Russian literature became a way to revitalize it.
There was Arturo Béjar’s testimony in 2023. The former Facebook engineer told senators, “Meta continues to publicly misrepresent the level and frequency of harm that users, especially children, experience on the platform.”
And there was Frances Haugen’s bombshell testimony in 2021: “I recognized a frightening truth: almost no one outside of Facebook... See more
And there was Frances Haugen’s bombshell testimony in 2021: “I recognized a frightening truth: almost no one outside of Facebook... See more
I wanted to live at the edge of the imperative, in the tender fury of the reckless moment, for in this brief and pointillist life, bright-dark and electric, I could do nothing else.
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The human spirit has a primal allegiance to wildness, to really live, to snatch the fruit and suck it, to spill the juice. We may think we are domesticated but we are... See more
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The human spirit has a primal allegiance to wildness, to really live, to snatch the fruit and suck it, to spill the juice. We may think we are domesticated but we are... See more
Recipes, the elementary forms of the culinary life, are missing in the great tradition of Hinduism.
While there is an immense amount written about eating and feeding, precious little is said about cooking in Hindu legal medical or philosophical texts... Food is principally either a moral or medical matter in traditional Hindu thought
Arjun Appadurai,
