Sriya Sridhar
@sris
Academic studying tech law and policy, seeking things that make sense and perpetual calm. Lit and poetry are my first loves
Sriya Sridhar
But no one has ever started over from scratch by devising a wholly new conceptual structure, an entirely new vessel. Why? Because we cannot step outside of our own thought. We think in terms of the conceptual structure that we happen to have. Thought changes from within, step by step, in the harsh and continuous confrontation with its object:
... See moreSecond-order regulatory maturity entails more than extending existing duties—it requires reimagining platforms not as passive hosts of content, but as engineered environments whose very structure determines the distribution of risk, attention, and agency. Absent this evolution, the regulatory model risks collapsing into performative governance :... See more
Dr Mark R Leiser • Systemic Manipulation, Child Vulnerability, and the Regulatory Deficit in Ofcom’s Framework
Analysis of Martin Heidegger's essays on technology, science, metaphysics, and Nietzsche's philosophy, exploring the essence of technology, the turning of modern age, and the impact on human existence.
LinkThe Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays by Heidegger
I have noticed that when all the lights are on, people tend to talk about what they are doing – their outer lives. Sitting round in candlelight or firelight, people start to talk about how they are feeling – their inner lives. They speak subjectively, they argue less, there are longer pauses.
To sit alone without any electric light is curiously... See more
To sit alone without any electric light is curiously... See more
Jeanette Winterson • Why I Adore the Night, by Jeanette Winterson
This comic speaks to my soul right now.
“When Sontag read Gide’s journals, she identified so deeply with his thinking, she wrote, ‘I am not only reading this book, but creating it myself.’” Reading can offer an experience of communion: a synthesis can occur when the thinking self, or internal monologue, merges with the author’s.