Nima Paidipaty
@paidipaty.bsky.social
Lecturer (Asst Prof) in Comparative Political Economy, Kings College London
This essay is delightful. Capturing the wunker-tinker, off-kilter singsong delights of Telugu
‘When you call someone chaotic, or better yet, a hot mess, you might disapprove, but there’s no denying they possess some allure.’
Madhu H. Kaza on Telugu and playful language.
granta.com/telugu/
Madhu H. Kaza on Telugu and playful language.
granta.com/telugu/
Telugu
‘Telugu makes ample, generative use of repetition, especially with words that appeal to the senses: gala-gala – the jingling of coins; tapa-tapa – small fruit falling.’ Madhu H. Kaza on Telugu and lin...
granta.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
This essay is delightful. Capturing the wunker-tinker, off-kilter singsong delights of Telugu
Got to listen to TM Krishna at the Barbican this morning as part of the Darbar Festival. A very special birthday treat.
October 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Got to listen to TM Krishna at the Barbican this morning as part of the Darbar Festival. A very special birthday treat.
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How might rethinking AI as an “emotional technology” transform our understanding of control, resistance, and the politics of feeling? 🤖 ❤️
Come join the Harvard S&T in Asia series for this talk by the remarkable Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social!
seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
#histstm #sts
Come join the Harvard S&T in Asia series for this talk by the remarkable Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social!
seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
#histstm #sts
October 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
How might rethinking AI as an “emotional technology” transform our understanding of control, resistance, and the politics of feeling? 🤖 ❤️
Come join the Harvard S&T in Asia series for this talk by the remarkable Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social!
seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
#histstm #sts
Come join the Harvard S&T in Asia series for this talk by the remarkable Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social!
seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
#histstm #sts
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job alert:
My department is now running a search to fill a newly inaugurated endowed chair in the History of Technology. Please consider applying/share widely. I'm not on the committee, but happy to answer questions or connect you with those who are.
Details here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09897
My department is now running a search to fill a newly inaugurated endowed chair in the History of Technology. Please consider applying/share widely. I'm not on the committee, but happy to answer questions or connect you with those who are.
Details here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09897
September 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
job alert:
My department is now running a search to fill a newly inaugurated endowed chair in the History of Technology. Please consider applying/share widely. I'm not on the committee, but happy to answer questions or connect you with those who are.
Details here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09897
My department is now running a search to fill a newly inaugurated endowed chair in the History of Technology. Please consider applying/share widely. I'm not on the committee, but happy to answer questions or connect you with those who are.
Details here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09897
Really enjoyed this conversation with Nick Boggs on his new biography of James Baldwin. The book reminds us that radical love is radical politics, especially in troubled times.
NEW EPISODE: Biographer Nicholas Boggs joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss his groundbreaking new book, Baldwin: A Love Story, the first major biography of James Baldwin to be published in three decades.
@literaryhub.bsky.social
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@literaryhub.bsky.social
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Nicholas Boggs on James Baldwin’s Love Stories
Biographer Nicholas Boggs joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss his groundbreaking new book, Baldwin: A Love Story, the first major biography of James Baldwin to be publ…
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September 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Really enjoyed this conversation with Nick Boggs on his new biography of James Baldwin. The book reminds us that radical love is radical politics, especially in troubled times.
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I wrote about Nicholas Boggs' new James Balddwin biography for @thenation.com Read here: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
James Baldwin’s Radical Politics of Love
While Baldwin was persecuted in part because of whom he loved, it was love that impelled him to bring about a more utopian future in which such persecution was not possible.
www.thenation.com
September 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I wrote about Nicholas Boggs' new James Balddwin biography for @thenation.com Read here: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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Lucid, convincing case for a tax on high-value property, from the UK's most eminent housing economist, John Muellbauer.
Would raise revenue *and* be good for growth.
://www.ft.com/content/bb4e7566-4bc6-45c9-87e4-271cc40c66a5
Would raise revenue *and* be good for growth.
://www.ft.com/content/bb4e7566-4bc6-45c9-87e4-271cc40c66a5
Britain needs a wealth tax on property
Targeting expensive houses and non-residential land would leave the vast majority of homeowners and farmers untouched
www.ft.com
August 31, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Lucid, convincing case for a tax on high-value property, from the UK's most eminent housing economist, John Muellbauer.
Would raise revenue *and* be good for growth.
://www.ft.com/content/bb4e7566-4bc6-45c9-87e4-271cc40c66a5
Would raise revenue *and* be good for growth.
://www.ft.com/content/bb4e7566-4bc6-45c9-87e4-271cc40c66a5
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Wow--incredible interview with Arundhati Roy on her mother, rising authoritarianism in India and the US, and other things: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/m...
Arundhati Roy on How to Survive in a ‘Culture of Fear’
www.nytimes.com
August 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Wow--incredible interview with Arundhati Roy on her mother, rising authoritarianism in India and the US, and other things: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/m...
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I am sad to learn of the passing of Brinkley Messick, a great scholar and ethnographer, a dear colleague with whom I worked very closely with for more than a decade. Here he is at a panel celebrating his wonderful book *Shari'a Scripts: A Historical Anthropology* in 2018.
August 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I am sad to learn of the passing of Brinkley Messick, a great scholar and ethnographer, a dear colleague with whom I worked very closely with for more than a decade. Here he is at a panel celebrating his wonderful book *Shari'a Scripts: A Historical Anthropology* in 2018.
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"I entrust you with Palestine – the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world, the heartbeat of every free person in this world"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
‘If these words reach you … Israel has succeeded in killing me’: the last words of a journalist killed in Gaza
Anas al-Sharif, an Al Jazeera reporter, was killed by an Israeli airstrike on Sunday night. This is the message he had prepared for his family, and his call for the world not to forget Gaza
www.theguardian.com
August 12, 2025 at 4:57 AM
"I entrust you with Palestine – the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world, the heartbeat of every free person in this world"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The syllabus for my first course as a Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Amazonas, where I will teach at Brazil’s flagship graduate program on the Amazon rainforest.
www.academia.edu/143301619/Sy...
www.academia.edu/143301619/Sy...
Syllabus, “Thinking Globally: Race, Indigeneity, and Empire,” Federal University of Amazonas, Graduate Program in Society and Culture in the Amazon (Fall 2025)
Syllabus, “Thinking Globally: Race, Indigeneity, and Empire,” Federal University of Amazonas, Graduate Program in Society and Culture in the Amazon (Fall 2025)
www.academia.edu
August 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The syllabus for my first course as a Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Amazonas, where I will teach at Brazil’s flagship graduate program on the Amazon rainforest.
www.academia.edu/143301619/Sy...
www.academia.edu/143301619/Sy...
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We are greatly saddened by the passing of Michel Callon, a key contributor to debates in our journal about economization, marketization, and ecologization. RIP
www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu/articles-ved...
www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu/articles-ved...
Michel Callon (1945-2025)
www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu
August 8, 2025 at 10:50 AM
We are greatly saddened by the passing of Michel Callon, a key contributor to debates in our journal about economization, marketization, and ecologization. RIP
www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu/articles-ved...
www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu/articles-ved...
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“Northwestern reassigned her grant funding, closed her lab and FORCIBLY ADMITTED HER TO THE UNIVERSITY’s PSYCHOATRIC HOSPITAL”
Never ever ever forget how racist the China initiative was, how it was pushed by both parties, and how it ruined the careers and terrorized the lives of many scientists.
Never ever ever forget how racist the China initiative was, how it was pushed by both parties, and how it ruined the careers and terrorized the lives of many scientists.
"Andrea Chu, the Midwest organizing director for Asian American Advancing Justice Chicago, said that Wu’s death shows the “devastating” impact of the China Initiative."
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/04/n...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/04/n...
Northwestern sued over suicide of professor targeted in China investigation
The estate of Northwestern University Professor Jane Wu, who died by suicide last year after being investigated in a controversial federal probe, is suing the school for allegedly discriminating ag…
www.chicagotribune.com
July 6, 2025 at 1:55 AM
“Northwestern reassigned her grant funding, closed her lab and FORCIBLY ADMITTED HER TO THE UNIVERSITY’s PSYCHOATRIC HOSPITAL”
Never ever ever forget how racist the China initiative was, how it was pushed by both parties, and how it ruined the careers and terrorized the lives of many scientists.
Never ever ever forget how racist the China initiative was, how it was pushed by both parties, and how it ruined the careers and terrorized the lives of many scientists.
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Harvard sociologist Theda Skocpol in TPM:
July 6, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Harvard sociologist Theda Skocpol in TPM:
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If the government wants to find the money (£7bn or so) to make up for its welfare U-turn, there's an easy answer - just don't implement the Immigration White Paper.
ukandeu.ac.uk/immigration_...
ukandeu.ac.uk/immigration_...
Immigration is down, should the government be happy? - UK in a changing Europe
Jonathan Portes analyses the latest ONS immigration statistics. He argues that net migration has dropped significantly, but that this will expose the...
ukandeu.ac.uk
July 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM
If the government wants to find the money (£7bn or so) to make up for its welfare U-turn, there's an easy answer - just don't implement the Immigration White Paper.
ukandeu.ac.uk/immigration_...
ukandeu.ac.uk/immigration_...
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Abrego is the *only* prisoner ever released from CECOT, so this is the sole account we have of the horrifying conditions in the prison in El Salvador where Trump has sent over 260 people from the US.
Abrego said he shared a cell with 20 people, who were forced to kneel overnight, “with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion.”
He was denied bathroom access and soiled himself. Detainees were confined to metal bunks w/no mattresses in an overcrowded cell w/no windows, bright lights…
He was denied bathroom access and soiled himself. Detainees were confined to metal bunks w/no mattresses in an overcrowded cell w/no windows, bright lights…
Politico - Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was illegaly deported by the Trump administration, details his mistreatment in a Salvadoran prison, claiming he suffered "severe beatings," sleep deprivation, malnutrition and other forms of torture at the hands of his jailers.
July 3, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Abrego is the *only* prisoner ever released from CECOT, so this is the sole account we have of the horrifying conditions in the prison in El Salvador where Trump has sent over 260 people from the US.
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The output of computer-vision research is overwhelmingly aimed towards monitoring humans
https://go.nature.com/45HQI4f
https://go.nature.com/45HQI4f
Don’t sleepwalk from computer-vision research into surveillance
The output of computer-vision research is overwhelmingly aimed towards monitoring humans. The potential ethical implications need more scrutiny.
go.nature.com
June 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
The output of computer-vision research is overwhelmingly aimed towards monitoring humans
https://go.nature.com/45HQI4f
https://go.nature.com/45HQI4f
This morning I woke up to the news that Zohran and his amazing, underdog run, HAVE made history!
His father was one of my PhD supervisors. Watching his campaign has been a revelation. It brings a message of hope, despite dark times and our polluted media ecosystem.
His father was one of my PhD supervisors. Watching his campaign has been a revelation. It brings a message of hope, despite dark times and our polluted media ecosystem.
June 25, 2025 at 5:26 AM
This morning I woke up to the news that Zohran and his amazing, underdog run, HAVE made history!
His father was one of my PhD supervisors. Watching his campaign has been a revelation. It brings a message of hope, despite dark times and our polluted media ecosystem.
His father was one of my PhD supervisors. Watching his campaign has been a revelation. It brings a message of hope, despite dark times and our polluted media ecosystem.
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RIP to Sly Stone. Calling someone a genius has mostly lost meaning, except when you apply it to Sly.
I'm glad Questlove gave him a revealing and rewarding documentary with SLY LIVES (AKA THE BURDEN OF BLACK GENIUS). I wrote about it for @ebertvoices.bsky.social.
I'm glad Questlove gave him a revealing and rewarding documentary with SLY LIVES (AKA THE BURDEN OF BLACK GENIUS). I wrote about it for @ebertvoices.bsky.social.
Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert
“Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)” is a sonic kick to the soul.
www.rogerebert.com
June 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
RIP to Sly Stone. Calling someone a genius has mostly lost meaning, except when you apply it to Sly.
I'm glad Questlove gave him a revealing and rewarding documentary with SLY LIVES (AKA THE BURDEN OF BLACK GENIUS). I wrote about it for @ebertvoices.bsky.social.
I'm glad Questlove gave him a revealing and rewarding documentary with SLY LIVES (AKA THE BURDEN OF BLACK GENIUS). I wrote about it for @ebertvoices.bsky.social.
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RIP Alasdair MacIntyre, a theorist who has a lot to teach us about thinking of ethics, community and tradition, in post-liberal times.
May 23, 2025 at 9:10 AM
RIP Alasdair MacIntyre, a theorist who has a lot to teach us about thinking of ethics, community and tradition, in post-liberal times.
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The AHA urges Ohioans to write to Governor DeWine and ask him to veto SB 1. This dangerous bill would undermine the integrity, quality, and reputation of public higher education in Ohio. Read our action alert for more information. 🗃️
Action Alert: Ask Governor DeWine to Veto Ohio SB 1
Over the last three years, the American Historical Association and many state-level partners have opposed Ohio SB 1 and its predecessor SB 83, both of which proposed aggressive new mechanisms to overr...
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March 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The AHA urges Ohioans to write to Governor DeWine and ask him to veto SB 1. This dangerous bill would undermine the integrity, quality, and reputation of public higher education in Ohio. Read our action alert for more information. 🗃️