Deep Fried Neurons Podcast

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 t...

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 cognitiv...

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 s...

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 huma...

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...

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 a...

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 Check out Far From F...

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,...

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 themselve...

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 re...

K.M. Nanavati V. State Of Maharashtra (AIR 1962 SC 605) was a case from  the 1960s Bombay, a time of walking out of the colonial identity for the city, and a murder trial unfolded in the quiet neighbourhood of the  Mumbai locals. We discuss the politics and implications on the legal history of the case, and the sensationalism around the "three bullets that rocked the country". Support me...

This episode is an imaginary argument I had with a person who I couldn't tell the importance of history in an argument in a rather jarring cab ride to a concert. This episode we talk about Friedrich Nietzsche's essay from the book Untimely meditations, that talks about how history should be looked at. How history should be learning in problem-solving,  and we understand lessons from the law i...

This episode, we take a trip down the history lane to understand why thinking about your own history feels a certain way. We visit the behaviour history of nostalgia, and what it means today and how it results in  Juvenoia, and how it could map you to patent boomer behavior. We explore the medicinal history, psychological and philosophical understanding of nostalgia with help of cultural anch...

Angry Maushi is an ongoing comic book series by comic book artist and illustrator Abhijeet Kini. Over this episode, he talks about his inspirations and his vocabulary and process of creating political commentary in the form of graphic novels. We majorly talk about his work in the form of angry Maushi, and it's extremely Mumbai context of existence. Checkout Kini Studios: http://abhijeetkini.com/ S...

For this episode, we revisit the first piece of Dalit literature that established the aesthetic to understand most dalit writings of contemporary times. We talk about how violence against lower caste women is a constant and recurring theme in our country and is perpetuated by the existence of caste identities and customary practices. We talk about the hypocrisy of the caste system and a pinch in a...

In 1964, Nikolai Kardashev addressed the problem of how to classify civilizations in case we came in contact with any interstellar intelligent life. Kardashev scale is an attempt to map the progress of a  civilization on a universal scale with the parameters of technological capability, and how that maps our own progress as a species. This episode, we try to understand why this scale is the c...

This Episode of the podcast talks about Neil Postman's Book about media consumption and learned helplessness that inspired some of the lyrics in the new Arctic Monkeys Album. we talk about how a certain amount of skepticism was relevant even 80 years ago  and how the disparity in the information we consume and what we are able to do about it permanently changes the nature of the human conditi...

For Episode 89, we see how deeply political the intents for creation of one of the oldest religions of the human civilization, the Egyptian civilization by the Nile. In this episode we briefly go through the creation of the universe to the worship of the Sun God Ra, and the conquest of Horus, the falcon God, along with the ritualistic cat worship in Ancient Egypt, and how the religion as formulate...

In this episode, we discuss Noam Chomsky and Edward Hansen's extremely influential book: Manufacturing Consent. The last 4 years have been devastating for the credibility of the press, and this book makes an eery representation of how the stories it weaves around the institutional journalism in post World War II order fell together in favour of the powerful. The book inspired bands like System Of...

This episode, we talk about lack of stimulation of the senses and the result of the same. But in a unique place in today's episode, we explore what happens when you can't be stimulated? and how does that change from what we understand to be boredom? We also explore the ganzfeld effect and what and how does quarantine rob you of experiences you thought you understood to be enjoyable. Hope you enjoy...

On 14th August 2020, Prashant Bhushan, a legal activist was convicted of a serious charge of criminal contempt of court. This came after Mr Bhushan made two tweets in criticism of the state of the judiciary and the story has been a dramatic turn of events that unfortunately has resulted in criticism of the supreme court and a dangerous precedent for free speech in the Democratic Republic of India....

This episode, I get on a call with Himanshi Parmar, an artist and academically a communications designer and Aditi Rakhe, an Art Historian and an Architect to talk about the philosophy of Aesthetic. I recently read Wittgenstein and wanted a session of learning about other theories or aesthetic and how it has come to represent the human experience,  perceptions and understanding. I know most o...

For this episode, I collaborated with TIFA Working Studios and got in touch with Angus Joseph, a gentleman who was involved in viral marketing using the memetic theory and sort of engaged in the science of memeing in the mid-2000s, and we get insights into how information spreads through memes. Angus also tells us about his experience with a Doki-Doki literature club-sque marketing experiment wher...

I get on a call with Salva Mubarak from Rayon Magazine, the person behind the very successful Bollywood satirical news page - rayon mag. I go through the textbook recital of the history of satire the way a 1st grade English oral exam would go, and I and Rayon talk about how satire and real-life are taking turns of imitating each other, along with my passionate hate for celebrity culture. Go check...

Over the course of the last week, the theories surrounding the deep state and QAnon have resurfaced and have seen the exposure/impressions like never before, mostly because of the new development in the conspiracy about the theorised child trafficking ring and involvement of the eCommerce site "Wayfair furniture". The theory, as most would've figured, is a hoax and a leap that's fairly well constr...