In a recent post, I discussed transhumanism in Anil Menon’s The Beast with 9 Billion Feet. The book is terrific, offering insight into the politics of transhuman… Read more “A Moment in Indian Science Fiction, pt 2”

Recently, I read Anil Menon’s The Beast with 9 Billion Feet, a wonderful foray into genetic engineering and transhumanism, and one of the few (English language, at… Read more “A Moment in Indian Science Fiction, pt 1”

So, I’ve had a pretty good career so far. I’ve lived in India (and recently returned for Ayudha Puja, as previously described in this blog). I’ve been… Read more “Hanging out with Neil Gaiman”

I recently claimed on this blog that we need to start thinking about the empowerment of individual people…especially because “bringing factories back” is both absurd in principle*… Read more “Could Gandhi save us from Trump? pt 2”

This is part 1 — on the economics of industry It’s been widely report that Donald Trump owes his ascendancy to rhetoric of economic troubles felt by middle-Americans,… Read more “Could Gandhi save us from Trump? (part 1)”

A new first in my career as an academic: this morning I received an email asking if I could speak on a conservative political radio show. I agreed… Read more “Laura Ingraham falsely accuses me :)”

I may not have said this yet, so it’s worth saying: I’m a very fortunate man. I can hear you now: “You must have evidence, sir, for… Read more “Ayudha Puja 2016 – celebrating at IISc”

I was lucky to be invited to speak at the University of South Carolina, Upstate this past week, where I was the guest of the African American… Read more “Playing with Imperialism”

I am in Bangalore for the Ayudha Puja festival, but this post is about a different, and wholly unexpected, religious encounter I had today. Yesterday, while I… Read more “Cycling to Spread the Word”

This is the first post in my new blog, which I hope will be longer-lived and better curated than my first (something like ApocalypticAI @ blogpsot). I’m… Read more “Start with a bang: Ayudha Puja”