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Re-Orienting a Posthumanist Orient in the Co-constitution of the Humanities and Technology
Talk given for the symposium Humanities Beyond Disciplines, organized by the Department of English and IQAC, Sammilani Mahavidyalaya, Kolkata, India on 7/24/2020. View at: https://youtu.be/NlM1GIzXzSg ...more
Indian Wisdom Traditions: A Historical Perspective
This illustrated talk introduces the history of Indian wisdom traditions from its beginning in the Indus Valley (c. 2700 BCE) to its continued development into modernity. It touches on the Vedas, the Upanishads, Buddhism, Sankhya and Yoga, Bhagavad Gita and Bhagavatism , Shaivism and Shaktism, discussed in the context of Indian social history. Coming to … Continue reading Indian Wisdom Traditions: A Historical Perspective ...more
Yogananda, the Beatles and the BJP: How Hinduism Evolved in the West
A Big Turtle Show conversation hosted by Vikram Zutshi and Lea Horvatic in June 2020. ...more
Colonialism and Modernism in Indian Art – 1750-1920
Talk given to students of Dr. Nalini Rao at SOKA University, Mission Viejo, Orange County, CA. ...more
Evolving Human Consciousness and Posthumanism
Interview by Suma Gowda, Jonathan Kay and Alicia Gonzales apropos the article Living Laboratories of the Life Divine being published by Collaboration the journal of the Sri Aurobindo Society as part of its "Gems from the Archive" - December 2020 ...more
New Thinking Allowed: Understanding the Chakras
New Thinking Allowed interview by Jeffrey Mishlove in November 2020 ...more
Existential Posthumanism, Wisdom, Yoga & PostColonialism
Interview on V-log Posthumans by leading thinker of philosophical posthumanism Francesca Ferrando ...more
Covid19, Death, Immortality and the Posthuman
Interview on Posthumans V-log by Francesca Ferrando, leading philosopher of philosophical posthumanism - April 2020 ...more
Sri Aurobindo’s Hermeneutics of Praxis as a Diagram of Becoming – the Yantra of the Seven Quartets
Talk given to students of Chris Chapple's Comparative Mysticism class at the Loyola Marymount University, 11/24/2020 ...more
Neo-Tantric Abstraction: Overlapping Traditions and New Hybridities in Three Modernist Indian Artists
Revised version of a talk titled "Hindu-Islamic Mysticism in Three Pioneers of Indian Neo-Tantric Art: S. H. Raza, G. R. Santosh, and Sohan Qadri" given at the Graduate Theological Union's Doug Adams gallery on 2/27/2020 ...more