The Following episode makes sense of one of the 20th century's most prolific, impactful and original existentialist writers: Jean-Paul Sartre. We explore 3 pieces of Literature by Sartre, and how the represent his vehement contention that man is condemned to be free in light of his take on phenomenology. The book explores Sartre's impact on the literary world, his political ideology, and the time of peril that was the two world wars - which deeply impacted him. We also discuss his post war politics and it causing bitter disagreements with erstwhile friends and visits to certain South American islands.

Suggested Reads:

Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre

https://www.amazon.in/Nausea-Penguin-Modern-Classics-Jean-Paul/dp/014118549X

No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre

https://www.amazon.in/Three-Other-Plays-Vintage-International/dp/0679725164/ref=sr_1_2?crid=4X2QBK0656VI&keywords=no+exit&qid=1702693504&s=books&sprefix=no+exi%2Cstripbooks%2C268&sr=1-2

The Age of Reason by Jean Paul Sartre

https://www.amazon.in/Modern-Classics-Age-Reason-Penguin/dp/0141185287/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3DADHR3ZI17NX&keywords=the+age+of+reason+jean+paul+sartre&qid=1702693536&s=books&sprefix=The+Age+of+Reason%2Cstripbooks%2C213&sr=1-1

What is Literature? by Jean Paul Sartre

https://www.amazon.in/What-Literature-134-Routledge-Classics/dp/0415254043/ref=sr_1_1?crid=WVQYLIV8TC9K&keywords=what+is+literature+by+sartre&qid=1702693560&s=books&sprefix=What+is+literature+%2Cstripbooks%2C245&sr=1-1

Lugwig Van Wittgenstein wrote Tactatus Logico Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations centred around a central question: Is language a competent tool to compare expereinces of reality to the end of demystifying it. This episode talks about foundational language in learning psychology, the growth of children in terms of cognitive abilities and how that relates to an operative person cognitively conveying intention. We look at the barrier of language resulting in a sea of context, that causes for Witgenstein's "language game" to have implications in real life governance, and legal procedure.

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Blasphemy, according to a quick google search is "Actions or speech that is done in irreverence or dismissal of God". To no one's surprise there are laws in place even today in more than a comfortable number of countries to punish blasphemy as a crime. In this episode, we briefly discuss the origin of this phenomenon, and see why is it that the state chooses to use it's monopoly of violence over speech and literature against God. In continuation of the discussion, we discuss the rationale given by the Supreme Court of India, as the justification for the constitutional validity of the blasphemy law in the Democratic Republic of India. Additionally, we discuss the the largest incident of blasphemy in the 20th century - the fatwa against Salman Rushdie and the complexities of having geographical granted autonomy to write and say something, while another geographical and cultural taboo to the extent of demanding death of the blasphemer across jurisdictions. In addition to the Fatwa, we also talk about incidents of "Blasphemy" and how it defines the identity of a culture and location. The end of this episode discusses India and the choice as a culture we stand to make, whether the State should penalise the blasphemer on behalf of religions over the fear of violence. 

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This episode of deep-fried neurons deals with the societal concept of Law and its placement at the center of society as a guide to the operating checkpoint of autonomy. In this episode, we discuss the necessity of law and how the law came to be in human civilization, Along with which, we also focus on how once the law was changed from the command of the sovereign; it would become a collective human sanction in favor of truth, the moral good and reason. We also discover the philosophical arguments advanced that suggest this pursuit is cloaked by a  will to exert power. 

After we go through the philosophical literature, we look at the Legislative battle for the rights of the LGBTQIA+ individuals in India to decriminalize same-sex relations previously classified as "unnatural" under the law, and how our studies in jurisprudence show the vertical limits of our courtrooms and reading of our legislation when it comes to actually protect justice.

Literature Reviewed / Recommended for this episode

- Jurisprudence and Legal Theory (EBC Publishers)

- Beyond Good and Evil

- A Hero of Two Worlds

- The World of the Homosexual

Cases read and referred for this episode 

KeshavNanda Bharti V. State of Kerela AIR 1973 1461

Naz Foundation V. Government of NCT Delhi 2010 CrLJ 94 (Del.)

Suresh Kumar Koushal V. Naz Foundation and Ors. MANU/SC/1278/2013

Navtej Singh Johar V. Union Of India (2014) 5 SCC 438

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This episode deals with the logistical solutions that human society had to come up with to effectively share resources and quantify value: money. In this episode, after understanding the anthropological necessity for money, we understand how the transference of money evolved. Dheeraj Shah helps me understand why currency or money was agreed upon to be rare metals like gold, and then how and why we shifted to cash transactions equivalent to gold, and finally how money came to have its own value and generated through our current debt systems. Dheeraj Specifically helps us with understanding what Decentralised Finance is and how bitcoin in specific is the ultimate experience in decentralized finance.

Books reviewed for this episode:

Treaties on Civil Government - John Locke

The Problem with Indian Rupee, and its Solution - B.R. Ambedkar

Simulacra and Simulation - Jean Baudrillard

History of Weimar Republic - Charles River Editors

Gold Standard in Theory and History - Richard Eichengreen

Other Content reviewed/suggested:

Cold Fusion - How is money created?

Adam Mckay(dir.) - The Big Short

Dylan Mohan Gray - Bad Boy Billionaires India  

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This episode discusses the philosophical history of rebellion from the age of enlightenment to the contemporary times in a literary review for 'the rebel' by Albert Camus and Animal Farm by George Orwell. The object of the episode is to understand what is rebellion, and what is it that causes rebellion to be meaningful or desirable to society. We discuss egocentrism, profiteering, and messianism along with desperation leading means to be justified by the ends of rebellion as demerits of this political occurrence, and how deeply cultural or societal the phenomenon of rebellion really is.

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For this episode, get on a call with Far From Fact and talk about colonization, our lives that are shaped by it, crowbars and hosting and producing a podcast. Far From Fact also bring us their perspectives on  adultery and their curation process for their stories. Also, a big  announcement for the future of the show for those who have been  listening for a while

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For this episode, I sit down with Sultana Zana, and I talk to her about her artist project from her residency in Bir, where she discovered a   colonial footprint in the ecological habitat of the Mountains of   Himachal Pradesh. Building the story off of her experience, we talk about the morality of anthropological interpretation and exploration along with the nature of entropy, and how that relates to the human experience as a civilisation.

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In the eternal words of the backstreet boys, the primary question that  prompts in my head every time i do something is "Tell me why?".  Individual behavior in tandem with society is an extremely overlooked  but equally interesting field of study, and I think it says a lot about  the way our political realities unfold or even how our personal  relationships shape themselves. One of the things we do to lubricate our  presence in society in general is conform with the norm of our  environment, and today we mostly explore "why?"

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With the release of Cyberpunk 2077 less than a week away and either full commitment or full disillusionment of people with the game, I thought it was a great opportunity to talk about a hyper-specific aesthetic in film and art - retrofuturism. Retrofuturism represents aesthetically exactly what it sounds too, a representation of the future in the past. This means the future as shown in artistic representation will be limited only by the technology of its time, but not by imagination. We also discuss cyberpunk, an aesthetic that has been consistently allied with anxiety about future societies - that represents over-urbanisation and a crippling dependency on technology along with a struggle for individuality that kinda life brings to human civilization.

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