#pankajmishra

[carlopizzati]

I had a thought provoking chat with Pankaj Mishra this summer. We talked about his "Gramscian" collection of essays "Bland Fanatics", the need for more democracy, the failures of hyper-individualism, the chumocracy driving Anglobalisation - rooted in white suprematism - the failures of the media and the need for a Renaissance of ethics and solidarity. Interview published in Italian in the Cultura pages of @larepubblica Link in bio #pankajmishra #blandfanatics https://www.instagram.com/p/CFMMKsjpnVt/?igshid=1bb77z2idebvh

[panda1987n]

You don’t have to look very hard in today’s world to realize a lot of people today are just angry. They’re mad about politics, their own situation, or other groups among many other things. And the more they feel like no one hears them, the worse things become. This anger is increasingly showing itself in the forms of racism, nationalism, and misogyny.  But why are people so mad? When and where did this begin? And what does our increasingly globalized world have to do with it? If we all look a little bit closer, we can see that it didn’t just appear out of nowhere. In fact, there have been many signs in the past few hundred years that foreshadowed we would one day come to this.  "The circulation of Enlightenment principles shed light on the unfairness and wealth discrepancies all around, making individuals feel disillusioned.  As national identity fades, many people start to feel left behind and want to resist the change" _____________________________________________ This resentment all-too-easily leads to poor decision making. Supremacist networks are able to feed on this alienation and anger and enlist “freedom fighters” with the promise they will have a sense of identity. It also leads to the rise of demagogues-leaders who appeal to the desires and prejudices of the people. They put their faith in the people, who are often violent, in their desperation to feel heard.  READ FULL EXPOSÉ ON " AGE OF ANGER" #pankajmishra #ageofanger #neocolonial #peaceprotest #leadershipchallenge #emancipation #minneapolisriots #peacewithin #educationpositive #humanityfirst #powertothepeople #brainwashed #governmentcorruption #systematicracism #stoppolicebrutality✊🏾 #fitnessmotivation #hiitcatdio #fit (at Life On Earth) https://www.instagram.com/p/CB_qMZkhFVI/?igshid=17u1b7cpx8k3r

[hamishmacewan]

According to this worldview, the dominance of which is now nearly absolute, the human norm is Homo economicus, a calculating subject whose natural desires and instincts are shaped by their ultimate motivation: to pursue happiness and avoid pain.

This simple view always neglected many factors ever-present in human lives: the fear, for instance, of losing honour, dignity and status, the distrust of change, the appeal of stability and familiarity. There was no place in it for more complex drives: vanity, fear of appearing vulnerable, the need to save face. Obsessed with material progress, the hyperrationalists ignored the lure of resentment for the left-behind, and the tenacious pleasures of victimhood.

And yet modern history provides enormous evidence for the persistent power of unreason. It was not so long ago – in the early 19th century – that French pretensions to a rational, universal, and cosmopolitan civilisation first provoked resentful Germans into the militant expression of what we now call “cultural nationalism”: the assertion of authentic culture rooted in national or regional character and history.

One revolution after another since then has demonstrated that feelings and moods change the world by turning into potent political forces. Fear, anxiety and a sense of humiliation were the principal motive of Germany’s expansionist policy in the early 20th century – and it is impossible to understand the current upsurge of anti-western sentiment in China, Russia and India without acknowledging the role played by humiliation.

Yet a mechanistic and materialist way of conceiving human actions has become entrenched, in part because economics has become the predominant means of understanding the world. A view that took shape in the 19th century – that there is “no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest” – has become orthodoxy once again in an intellectual climate that views the market as the ideal form of human interaction and venerates technological progress and the growth of GDP. All of this is part of the rigid contemporary belief that what counts is only what can be counted and that what cannot be counted – subjective emotions – therefore does not.

[monstruktor]

Next year will be ... #thanks #congrats @joaquimguilhermeblanc #brookeholmes @acimanandre @eva_franch @guanxiaoisme #pankajmishra @loscandeleros @loverslollypops @cmp_portocultura @caferivoli @teatro_municipal_do_porto #cumbria #baile #wtf #forumdofuturo #agoraclub #cmp #porto #classic #west #east #philosophy #rivoli #talk #classicistic #ancient #times #view #return #rediscover (at Teatro Municipal do Porto - Rivoli . Campo Alegre) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqGKq14lYki/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ry98mv0xepsd

[primecollector]

Not an ideal #segue from #montaigne to #pankajmishra #ageofanger #nypl (at Delhi, India) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqEwe5flWOo/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=iwso9vca524d

[localturnon]

#Localturnon #event #alert: #SumeetAnandPandey , promising #dhrupad #vocalist of #darbhanga #gharana will be accompanied by #pankajmishra (sarangi) & #vijayramdas (pakhawaj) at the prestigious Pt. Sharda Sahai #Memorial #Festival (organized by the Sri. Ram Chandan #Sangeet #Foundation) Mark the date - 26th Nov, Durga Bari, #Bhagalpur #turnon #music #turnon #happiness #turnon #life With #localturnon

[vbrahma]

#Repost @thatannoyedfeminist (@get_repost) ・・・ Why hasn't the government spoken out when the fundamental rights of people are being violated, you ask? Because it's the organisations that they back and support, that are going around killing journalists. #freedomofpress #freedomofspeech #demockracy #gaurilankesh #journalists #india #incredibleindia #murder #pankajmishra #ras #bjp #jdu #vhp #feminism #woc #intersectionality #poc #humanrights #smashthepatriarchy #yesallwomen

[umair-khan-blog2]

#Sunday #BookHaul #books #Kissinger #RichardHaass #PankajMishra #Stiglitz #NiallFerguson #Freakonomics #bookstagram

[stingtimes-blog]

गृह मंत्री पर सवाल उठाने वाला जवान बोला- जान को है खतरा #RajnathSingh #SukmaAttack #PankajMishra

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[sampigehoovu]

#readingonthemetro #theromantics #pankajmishra #movingtodilliscenes (at New Delhi, India)

[worte2014]

Pankaj Mishra, ein Autor und Denker, dessen Werk ich verfolge und der gestern Abend in Köln einen Vortrag gehalten hat.

[patronaget]

Interesting read ahead and the theme does not match my very #colonialist strap. #pankajmishra #fromtheruinsofempire

[d-eepesh-blog]

Enjoyed a lot in a inauguration party arranged by #pavanMishra ji and #pankajMishra ji... 🏡 Congrats to ol of dem 🌹#blessings #wms #deeps #photography @d_eepesh #instagram :) :D (at Sudama Nagar Indore)

[localturnon]

#Localturnon #event #alert: #SumeetAnandPandey , promising #dhrupad #vocalist of #darbhanga #gharana will be accompanied by #pankajmishra (sarangi) & #vijayramdas (pakhawaj) at the prestigious Pt. Sharda Sahai #Memorial #Festival (organized by the Sri. Ram Chandan #Sangeet #Foundation) Mark the date - 26th Nov, Durga Bari, #Bhagalpur #turnon #music #turnon #happiness #turnon #life With #localturnon

[localturnon]

#Localturnon #event #alert: #SumeetAnandPandey , promising #dhrupad #vocalist of #darbhanga #gharana will be accompanied by #pankajmishra (sarangi) & #vijayramdas (pakhawaj) at the prestigious Pt. Sharda Sahai #Memorial #Festival (organized by the Sri. Ram Chandan #Sangeet #Foundation) Mark the date - 26th Nov, Durga Bari, #Bhagalpur #turnon #music #turnon #happiness #turnon #life With #localturnon