kanikagauba.bsky.social
@kanikagauba.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Birkbeck Law.
I work on law-violence-blood.
I work on law-violence-blood.
Pinned
“Speed is the mask of inconsistency. Philosophy must propose a retardation process. It must construct a time for thought, which, in the face of the injunction to speed, will constitute a time of its own. … (T)oday revolt requires leisureliness and not speed.”
- Alain Badiou, Infinite Thought
- Alain Badiou, Infinite Thought
In this piece for the National Law School Journal, I reflect on the silent archives of Indian constitutional history:
repository.nls.ac.in/nlsj/vol18/i...
repository.nls.ac.in/nlsj/vol18/i...
Sieving Silence: The Communal Question and the Archive of Indian Constitutional History
This paper shows how the archive of Indian constitutional history limits access to constitutional disagreement. It attempts an alternative framing of the issue of political safeguards for religious mi...
repository.nls.ac.in
July 28, 2025 at 5:39 AM
In this piece for the National Law School Journal, I reflect on the silent archives of Indian constitutional history:
repository.nls.ac.in/nlsj/vol18/i...
repository.nls.ac.in/nlsj/vol18/i...
“Speed is the mask of inconsistency. Philosophy must propose a retardation process. It must construct a time for thought, which, in the face of the injunction to speed, will constitute a time of its own. … (T)oday revolt requires leisureliness and not speed.”
- Alain Badiou, Infinite Thought
- Alain Badiou, Infinite Thought
June 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
“Speed is the mask of inconsistency. Philosophy must propose a retardation process. It must construct a time for thought, which, in the face of the injunction to speed, will constitute a time of its own. … (T)oday revolt requires leisureliness and not speed.”
- Alain Badiou, Infinite Thought
- Alain Badiou, Infinite Thought
At the London Docklands Museum, just a panel and a paragraph (and, not pictured, a cabinet of things) to represent the imperial history of trade with South Asia.
April 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM
At the London Docklands Museum, just a panel and a paragraph (and, not pictured, a cabinet of things) to represent the imperial history of trade with South Asia.
Emerging from one rabbit hole only to dive into the next.
April 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Emerging from one rabbit hole only to dive into the next.
My world is constantly cracking open,
And I am constantly coming home.
- Tara Peckham, ‘Split and Return’
And I am constantly coming home.
- Tara Peckham, ‘Split and Return’
January 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
My world is constantly cracking open,
And I am constantly coming home.
- Tara Peckham, ‘Split and Return’
And I am constantly coming home.
- Tara Peckham, ‘Split and Return’
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Since we're all here...
May as well share the details for the next History of Anticolonial Political Thought Seminar.
Join us on December 2nd, from 4:30pm (GMT), at SOAS, or online, to hear from our two speakers on "State-Building Under Occupation".
Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
May as well share the details for the next History of Anticolonial Political Thought Seminar.
Join us on December 2nd, from 4:30pm (GMT), at SOAS, or online, to hear from our two speakers on "State-Building Under Occupation".
Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
History of Anticolonial Political Thought Seminar
Join us on December 2nd, from 4:30pm (GMT), in person at SOAS, or online, to hear from our two speakers on "State-Building Under Occupation".
We will hear from Akram Salhab, a PhD candidate at Queen...
docs.google.com
November 18, 2024 at 1:01 PM
Since we're all here...
May as well share the details for the next History of Anticolonial Political Thought Seminar.
Join us on December 2nd, from 4:30pm (GMT), at SOAS, or online, to hear from our two speakers on "State-Building Under Occupation".
Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
May as well share the details for the next History of Anticolonial Political Thought Seminar.
Join us on December 2nd, from 4:30pm (GMT), at SOAS, or online, to hear from our two speakers on "State-Building Under Occupation".
Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
No folie à deux, the relationship (of love) has a third partner: the work. The work equalises the emotions, and enables the two submerged to surface in series of unpredictable configurations. Work is the constant carnival …” — Gillian Rose, Love’s Work, p. 131-2
November 20, 2024 at 3:01 PM
No folie à deux, the relationship (of love) has a third partner: the work. The work equalises the emotions, and enables the two submerged to surface in series of unpredictable configurations. Work is the constant carnival …” — Gillian Rose, Love’s Work, p. 131-2
Heard Anouar Brahem live last night in a deeply moving performance. With the percussionist stuck in Lebanon, the quartet was reduced to a trio. In other words, Gaza continues to be everywhere and nowhere.
November 18, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Heard Anouar Brahem live last night in a deeply moving performance. With the percussionist stuck in Lebanon, the quartet was reduced to a trio. In other words, Gaza continues to be everywhere and nowhere.
Someone was thoroughly unimpressed by Badiou..
September 10, 2024 at 11:19 AM
Someone was thoroughly unimpressed by Badiou..