‘You can’t build communism in a society committed to caste hierarchy.’
Historian and political commentator Vijay Prashad on Ambedkar, caste reform, and why class politics alone isn’t enough.
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#vijayprashad #geopolitics #ambedkar
Is a Congress Socialist revival possible in India?
Historian and political commentator Vijay Prashad on youth politics, Rahul Gandhi, BJP, and the future of Congress.
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#indianelections #vijayprashad #socialism
‘India is one of the most expensive places to get elected.’
Historian and political commentator Vijay Prashad on crorepati candidates, campaign finance, and the gap between money and democracy.
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#indianelections #vijayprashad #marxism
Is this really a “multipolar world”?
Or just power rebranded?
Vijay Prashad on capitalism, imperialism, BRICS, India, and the future of the left.
Full episode: Dark Matter, Bright Minds.
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#VijayPrashad #Marxism #Geopolitics #IndianPolitics #GlobalSouth
From capitalism and crisis to BRICS, imperialism, caste, and Indian democracy — Vijay Prashad on why the future must be imagined differently.
Full episode: linktw.in/kstSaC
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#podcast #vijayprashad #marxism
‘BRICS isn’t unified. What holds it together is frustration with the Global North.
Historian and political commentator Vijay Prashad argues that the Global South is seeking alternatives because the Western-led world system has failed.
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#BRICS #vijayprashad #marxism
‘If you want to emancipate yourself, you must ask: what restricts your freedom?’
Historian and political commentator Vijay Prashad on ownership, capitalism, and economic power.
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#vijayprashad #marxism #politicaltheory
‘Corporations plan all the time. The issue isn’t planning. The issue is who’s planning.’
Vijay Prashad on:
• Public vs private planning
• India’s Planning Commission
• The myth of multipolarity
Full episode: Dark Matter, Bright Minds.
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#vijayprashad #marxism #geopolitics
‘Markets are not a synonym for capitalism.’
Historian and political commentator Vijay Prashad argues that critics of socialism conflate markets with private monopoly power. The real question isn’t market vs planning.
It’s who controls the market.
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#vijayprashad #marxism
‘For a Marxist, tomorrow doesn’t just mean the next day. It means a different world.’
Historian and political commentator Vijay Prashad on emancipation, political imagination, and the future.
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#vijayprashad #marxism #politicaltheory
‘China doesn’t want to be a pole.’
Historian and political commentator Vijay Prashad questions the idea of a truly multipolar world — and whether power politics is being projected onto everyone else.
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#china #usa #vijayprashad #marxism
‘Economic rivalry. Military intimidation. That is hyper-imperialism.’
Historian and political commentator Vijay Prashad on BRICS, China’s rise, and U.S. global power after 2008.
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#BRICS #vijayprashad #marxism
Our next guest on Dark Matter, Bright Minds Vijay Prashad— historian & Marxist thinker on capitalism, imperialism, and the Global South.
A sharp conversation on power, history, and a different future. Episode drops soon.
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‘International law is a great idea. But who enforces it?’
Historian and political commentator Vijay Prashad on the UN Charter, power politics, and selective accountability.
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#UNcharter #vijayprashad #marxism
‘Western countries spend 75% of global military budgets.’
Historian and political commentator Vijay Prashad on power, paralysis, and why emerging blocs struggle to reshape the world order.
#vijayprashad #geopolitics #gaza
We can decode brain states—but we still don’t know what consciousness is.
So what are we really regulating?
Neuroethicist Professor Nita Farahany on cognitive liberty and the meaning of being human.
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#cognitiveliberty #neuroethics #consciousness
“The last frontier was never space. It was the mind.”
Nita Farahany on cognitive liberty, brain surveillance, and what it means to protect the human experience in the neural age.
Dark Matter, Bright Minds
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#cognitiveliberty #techethics #neurotechnology
When healing, liberty, and surveillance exist together, the future becomes a paradox.
Neuroethicist Professor Nita Farahany on whether opting out of neurotechnology is still possible.
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#cognitiveliberty #techethics #neurotechnology
What if mental recovery had subscription tiers?
Neuroethicist Professor Nita Farahany on neurotechnology, inequality, and a future that looks uncomfortably close to Black Mirror.
#techethics #neurotechnology #mentahealth
Brain monitoring at work isn’t “wellness.” If employers can access cognitive signals, even basic salary negotiation becomes compromised.
Neuroethicist Nita Farahany on the future of workplace surveillance.
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#techethics #neurotechnology #mentahealth
“The grief didn’t disappear. But the trauma did.”
Neuroethicist Professor Nita Farahany on how neurofeedback is transforming PTSD treatment.
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#PTSD #neurofeedback #mentalhealth #neurotechnology
How do you regulate neurotechnology when even the science is still debated?
Neuroethicist Professor Nita Farahany on why law must move from regulating tech to regulating risk.
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#techregulation #neuroethics #AI
When children believe their thoughts are being monitored, freedom of thought disappears.
Neuroethicist Professor Nita Farahany on brain surveillance in classrooms and its chilling effect on autonomy.
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#cognitiveliberty #mentalprivacy #neuroethics
Nita Farahany joins Dark Matter, Bright Minds to discuss cognitive liberty, neurotechnology, mental privacy, and the future of human self- determination.
Episode coming soon.
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#cognitiveliberty #neuroethics #darkmatterbrightminds #podcast
From perfume counters to police interrogations—brain data is already being captured, analyzed, and repurposed.
Neuroethicist Professor Nita Farahany on the coming intensification of neurotech.
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#cognitiveliberty #neurotechnology #mentalprivacy
Cognitive liberty may be the defining human right of the digital age.
Neuroethicist Professor Nita Farahany on mental privacy, freedom of thought, and why emerging technologies pose unprecedented risks to the mind.
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#cognitiveliberty #neurotechnology #kindlecast
AI and the second quantum revolution are reshaping our world — faster than we can predict.
Jim Al-Khalili on why the real risk isn’t machines, but how humans use them.
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#jimalkhalili #physics #darkmatterbrightminds #AI
Beyond the double-slit experiment, the real mystery may be quantum entanglement.
Jim Al-Khalili on why particles can behave as if instantly connected across space.
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#jimalkhalili #physics #darkmatterbrightminds #entanglement
If the brain is a physical system, why couldn’t a machine be conscious too?
Jim Al-Khalili on AI, complexity, and consciousness.
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#jimalkhalili #physics #darkmatterbrightminds #AI #consciousness
Physics can be precise without being settled.
In our new Dark Matter, Bright Minds episode, Jim Al-Khalili takes us through time, entanglement, consciousness, the multiverse, AI—and why uncertainty is the engine of science.
Full episode out now. Link in bio.
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