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M7: Formalizing Identity Part I
By Rajesh Kasturirangan
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M6: The Unmedium
By Rajesh Kasturirangan
“Dreams feel real while we’re in them. It’s only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.”
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M5: The Interverse
By Rajesh Kasturirangan
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Geocracy

The State of Algorithmic Politics

Emotional Truths Why is it that at a time when the future of human existence is threatened by climate change, the future of work is threatened by automation and the future of every other living...

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Samsara

Many Mes

Photographer: Andrew Seaman [https://unsplash.com/@amseaman] | Source: Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/] MeMe and YouMe The Buddha, peace be unto him, is famous for declaring there’s no self....

skin of the world

Interverse

The Skin of the World

Photographer: David Clode [https://unsplash.com/@davidclode] | Source: Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/] I am taking a step back from writing about contentious topics — authoritarian politics...

Interverse

M4: The Ministry for the Near Future

Imagining alternative metaverses

Facebook becomes Meta

Interverse

M3: Facebook Becomes Meta

When Platforms transform in to Worlds, Attention Capture is replaced by Attention Constitution

M2: What’s a Thing and how does it Persist?

Interverse

M2: What’s a Thing and how does it Persist?

Why would I invest serious money in art or design when the virtual vase is only available in one game? Why would a serious digital artist create a piece of art that can only be viewed in Minecraft or Fortnite? We have to solve for persistence and identity across virtual worlds if we want a metaverse that triggers the willing suspension of disbelief.

M1: Crafting the Metaverse -- The Mauhaus Project

Interverse

M1: Crafting the Metaverse -- The Mauhaus Project

What if the Bauhaus was reinvented for the Metaverse? How can we imagine a humane digital future that celebrates the creative impulse and humane values and embraces technology?

The Essence of the Middle Way

Samsara

The Essence of the Middle Way

Philosophy routinely finds itself charting a course between two seemingly irreconcilable positions, a middle way between extremes. The first update in a new series: a daily reading of Kant and Nagarjuna as two exponents of the 'Middle Way.'

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Regime Change: From Trump to Biden I

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Beyond Secular and Religious

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Introducing Cosiety

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Caste in Mind

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Caste Cosiety

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