Capitalism
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Chennai Is Not an Accident
X.T.M observes that Chennai retains a non-transactional social reflex, with strangers helping unasked, and attributes it to Tamil language, Dravidian suspicion of centralisation, unstaged religious pluralism and weak chain retail,…
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The Broken Compact
The author argues that the incremental Indian and American Dream, in which education and merit lead to mobility, has expired for a generation. He sees a new South Asian left…
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Zia-Era Pakistan & Today’s India
Commenting on a reader’s dismissal of comparing Zia-era Pakistan with Modi’s India, X.T.M notes both pair economic growth with cultural conservatism, and asks whether right-wing politics is how societies answer…
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Meltdown Bhāṣya: Verse 1.1.1 (Part 1.2)
Part 1.2 of the Meltdown Bhāṣya commentary on verse 1.1.1 sketches a history of capitalism, commoditisation and production, tracing how Nick Land’s idea of a technocapital singularity draws on Deleuze…
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Meltdown Bhāṣya: Verse 1.1.1 (Part 1.1)
Arkacandra Jayasimha continues a project reading Nick Land’s accelerationism through Hindu texts, introducing Land’s “technocapital singularity” as a parasitic, self-assembling intelligence and framing it as the starting point for a…
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A commentary: Ganesh, in a confectionery mill
Furqan Ali annotates Afshan Shafi’s poem ‘Ganesh, in a confectionery mill’, reading its placing of the Hindu deity in an industrial setting as a surrealist, biting comment on consumerism, decaying…
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🪙 What’s in a Name? Mukesh, Not Mukash.
Prompted by a misspelling of Mukesh Ambani’s name, X.T.M argues that upper-caste Indians wrongly expect wealth to buy Western respect, describes a Brahmin–Baniya compact, and says China profits quietly from…
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Café Concord: A View from the Counter
Writing from a café in Concord, Massachusetts, X.T.M argues that American service spaces sort people by race, class and aesthetics, with white front-of-house staff and Mexican kitchen workers, a pattern…
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H/acc — Towards a Hindu Reading of Accelerationism
A long essay, first published in March 2023, offering a Hindu reading of accelerationism. It treats technocapital and AI as an inhuman process, draws on Nick Land, invokes Narasimha, and…
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Capitalism’s New Skin: Navigating Identity in a Post-Racial, Hyper-Global World
Picking up Razib’s remark on the 2020 BIPOC era, X.T.M argues that capitalism is now the only cohesive force in a fractured, hyper-globalised world, with social media, UK immigration and…
