Rakesh Bhandari
postdiscipline.bsky.social
Rakesh Bhandari
@postdiscipline.bsky.social
Associate Director of Interdisciplinary Studies and Senior Lecturer at Cal. Have acted as Director for many years. Twisting Marx to make capitalism stronger since I got a mortgage. But don't ask me what my field is, I'm not a donkey.
See also Princeton historian Emmanuel Kreike on environcide inquisitivebiologist.com/2022/04/14/b...
September 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
See also Princeton historian Emmanuel Kreike's history of warfare that he calls environcide. inquisitivebiologist.com/2022/04/14/b...
September 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Reminded of Hannah Arendt discussed by Anne Phillips www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SeS...
August 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Reminded of Hannah Arendt discussed by Anne Phillips www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SeS...
August 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
As I noted in my intro to Prof Doudna's guest lecture to my class, one day her name would be etched alongside Cuvier, Darwin, Galileo, Descartes and others in the Heyn Reading Room at your old school, Prof. Bertozzi.
August 13, 2025 at 9:54 AM
About to get my private tutorial on this.
August 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I've been with my Mom at the hospital as they treat her for signs of congestive heart failure and advancing dementia. Two floors below, our two kids who embody her values were born. The site of indescribable joy is also one of anguish I can't describe.
August 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
You may find interesting the concepts of asset circles, narrative, and value entrepreneurs in Dave Elder-Vass's
@daveev.bsky.social Inventing Value. From Andrew Sayer's review academic.oup.com/cpe/article/...
July 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
You may find interesting the concepts of asset circles, narrative, and value entrepreneurs in Dave Elder-Vass's @daveev.bsky.social‬ Inventing Value. From Andrew Sayer's review academic.oup.com/cpe/article/...
July 31, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Will Pres Trump order SEAL Team 6 to deal with the outspoken Governor of CA Gavin Newsom if Trump thinks that Newsom is interfering with his executive actions to handle a national security emergency? Is calling Trump's actions 'deranged' enough to give an assassination order?
June 8, 2025 at 6:20 AM
2/2 Here are the criticisms that I discussed in lecture.
May 11, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The early industrial revolution brought about a noticeable decline in stature (see Marx footnote from "The Working Day"); the digital revolution is causing a noticeable decline in reasoning and problem-solving skills.
March 31, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Are we talking about these Kochs that Jane Mayer wrote about? (Yes, I know we are.) Summary from Andreas Malm:
March 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I haven't yet read Emmanuel Kreike's Scorched Earth, but its concept of environcide seems close to Amrith's views. Dagomar Degroot summarizes Kreike's argument:
February 19, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Trump hates globalism but loves big nation chauvinism in their respective spheres of influence. Trump includes Greenland in the US sphere to legitimize Putin putting Ukraine in the Russian sphere. People forget that the father of national economics Friedrich List was really a big nation chauvinist.
January 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Trump hates globalism but loves big nation chauvinism in their respective spheres of influence. Trump includes Greenland in the US sphere to legitimize Putin putting Ukraine in the Russian sphere. People forget that the father of national economics Friedrich List was really a big nation chauvinist.
January 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Mercantilism was not just a trade doctrine; it was also a population doctrine. The strength of the states was located in the size of the population. See Schiebinger on the agnotology of exotic abortifacients. Think of Trump's green card policy in these terms too. Neo-mercantalism. Henryk Grossman:
December 27, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Why were the French burning effigies of Father Christmas in the early 1950s? Claude Levi-Strauss offered an answer. aphelis.net/wp-content/u...
December 25, 2024 at 9:18 AM
The wages of white workers did go up in one month. How can people be so lost?
December 20, 2024 at 8:54 PM
C'mon, Paul. You know what's going on: many workers' personal situation did improve after the election. The psychological wage from being white increased sharply. WEB DuBois:
December 20, 2024 at 8:53 PM
Paul, many workers' personal situation did improve after the election. The psychological wage from being white increased sharply. WEB DuBois:
December 20, 2024 at 8:52 PM
Very illuminating. We also hear a lot about the importance of quantum computing to national security. Manuel Castells writes:
December 14, 2024 at 1:03 AM
We hear a lot about how important quantum computing is to security. Manuel Castells notes:
December 14, 2024 at 1:02 AM
*Could we discover that our thoughts aren't reflected in the AGI mirror but have become the reflections of an AI made autonomous from having its temperature turned down?
*Sen's Idea of Justice is close to @shannonvallor.bsky.social
*@anilananth.bsky.social raises problem of absence of world model
December 12, 2024 at 12:58 AM
*Could we discover that our thoughts aren't reflected in the AGI mirror but have become the reflections of an AI made autonomous from having its temperature turned down?
*Sen's Idea of Justice is close to @shannonvallor.bsky.social
*@anilananth.bsky.social raises problem of absence of world model
December 12, 2024 at 12:58 AM