Existential Posthumanism: A Path of Self-Discovery

"Existential Posthumanism: A Path of Self-Discovery" - Francesca Ferrando's lecture on Friday, 15th of January at 9:30 am to 10:30 am (EST)/ 6:30 pm to 7:30 PM (IST), organized and live streamed by the Consciousness Studies Programme, National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore, India.

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Nabarun Bhattacharya: Aesthetics and Politics in a World after Ethics

The book aims to introduce the Bengali writer (1948-2014) to a global audience through some of his short stories and poems in English translation and a series of critical essays on his works. A political commitment to literature frames Nabarun Bhattacharya's aesthetic project and the volume wishes to tease out the various perspectives on this complex meeting of politics and aesthetics.

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The Unknown Something: Objects beyond the Economy of Use in Nabarun’s Short Stories – Samrat Sengupta

in Nabarun Bhattacharya: Aesthetics and Politics in a World after Ethics. Ed. Sourit Bhattacharya, Arka Chattopadhyay, Samrat Sengupta. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

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Technification of Knowledge and Knowledge as Technology: the University as the Verse to Come – Samrat Sengupta

Article carried in Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Volume 12, Number 5, 2020

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