ishaan (they/them)
@ichhadharibilli.bsky.social
writer, translator, shapeshifter 🍉
student of [political, decolonial] philosophy [of history, time, language] at KU Leuven. lover of poems. speaker of 2 or 3 languages and then some [en-hi-ur-de-fr]. linktree.com/ishaansaxena_
انقلاب زندہ باد ☭
student of [political, decolonial] philosophy [of history, time, language] at KU Leuven. lover of poems. speaker of 2 or 3 languages and then some [en-hi-ur-de-fr]. linktree.com/ishaansaxena_
انقلاب زندہ باد ☭
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Croyez-vous en Dieu?
Non, je ne crois pas en Dieu.
Mais je crois aux godes.
Non, je ne crois pas en Dieu.
Mais je crois aux godes.
Objectivity is actually just three tiny subjectivities in a trench coat
December 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Objectivity is actually just three tiny subjectivities in a trench coat
It's so European to think that Daylight wants to be saved...
December 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
It's so European to think that Daylight wants to be saved...
Can two myths combined become a theory?
October 23, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Can two myths combined become a theory?
Pour commencer, on a besoin d'un endroit pour commencer. Mais on fait la vie nomadique. Et l'endroit est toujours en train de changer... Bien, donc, on commence avec le changement, in media res.
October 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Pour commencer, on a besoin d'un endroit pour commencer. Mais on fait la vie nomadique. Et l'endroit est toujours en train de changer... Bien, donc, on commence avec le changement, in media res.
Class differentiates by what you « have ». Caste differentiates by what you « are ».
When we think of the world through relations (comme chez Spinoza), class-caste blends into a cohesive dynamic of stratifying (human) bodies: class through external relations and caste through internal relations.
When we think of the world through relations (comme chez Spinoza), class-caste blends into a cohesive dynamic of stratifying (human) bodies: class through external relations and caste through internal relations.
September 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Class differentiates by what you « have ». Caste differentiates by what you « are ».
When we think of the world through relations (comme chez Spinoza), class-caste blends into a cohesive dynamic of stratifying (human) bodies: class through external relations and caste through internal relations.
When we think of the world through relations (comme chez Spinoza), class-caste blends into a cohesive dynamic of stratifying (human) bodies: class through external relations and caste through internal relations.
Colonialism (as a historical event) is inseparable from mercantile capitalism. Coloniality (as a structure if power, Quijano 2020) is inseparable from capitalism.
July 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Colonialism (as a historical event) is inseparable from mercantile capitalism. Coloniality (as a structure if power, Quijano 2020) is inseparable from capitalism.
If intelligibility is conceived as that of an object, only the past can be intelligible because the unfolding present as a process cannot be reduced to a fixed and stable object.
July 26, 2025 at 8:58 AM
If intelligibility is conceived as that of an object, only the past can be intelligible because the unfolding present as a process cannot be reduced to a fixed and stable object.
پنجرہ a window and a cage, all at once
July 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
پنجرہ a window and a cage, all at once
TIL: I deeply, intensely love Henri Bergson
June 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
TIL: I deeply, intensely love Henri Bergson
savior/savoir. It's funny how close the words are visually: how they both present themselves as the one who will rescue us. But perhaps they are more like a pharmakon, poison and cure à la fois. Perhaps... more of the poison: the denial of life to create dead reason that comes back to deny our life.
May 28, 2025 at 5:32 AM
savior/savoir. It's funny how close the words are visually: how they both present themselves as the one who will rescue us. But perhaps they are more like a pharmakon, poison and cure à la fois. Perhaps... more of the poison: the denial of life to create dead reason that comes back to deny our life.
Être en vie, c'est avoir envie.
May 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Être en vie, c'est avoir envie.
I don't use they/them pronouns (only) because I'm agender/genderqueer but also because I'm not a singular subject, I'm multiple, a collectivist of agents in a body.
May 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I don't use they/them pronouns (only) because I'm agender/genderqueer but also because I'm not a singular subject, I'm multiple, a collectivist of agents in a body.
L'amour est un mélange de corps, qui peut être répresenté par un coeur percé d'une flèche, par une union des âmes, etc.; mais la déclaration «je t'aime» exprime un attribut non corporel des corps, de l'amant comme de l'aimé.
Deleuze and Guattari, Mille-Plateaux, 103.
Deleuze and Guattari, Mille-Plateaux, 103.
April 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM
L'amour est un mélange de corps, qui peut être répresenté par un coeur percé d'une flèche, par une union des âmes, etc.; mais la déclaration «je t'aime» exprime un attribut non corporel des corps, de l'amant comme de l'aimé.
Deleuze and Guattari, Mille-Plateaux, 103.
Deleuze and Guattari, Mille-Plateaux, 103.
Don't carry the entire state of discourse on your shoulders, babe. That stuff is really heavy.
April 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Don't carry the entire state of discourse on your shoulders, babe. That stuff is really heavy.
Yesterday, a friend told me that in Portuguese, they use the phrase "Indian line" to describe a single file. Today, I encountered the same phrase in French, in Quatre Heures à Chatila by Jean Genet: "une file indienne".
Idk what their thinking is but Indians don't really stand in line.
Idk what their thinking is but Indians don't really stand in line.
April 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Yesterday, a friend told me that in Portuguese, they use the phrase "Indian line" to describe a single file. Today, I encountered the same phrase in French, in Quatre Heures à Chatila by Jean Genet: "une file indienne".
Idk what their thinking is but Indians don't really stand in line.
Idk what their thinking is but Indians don't really stand in line.
L'amour et la vie ne paraissent individuels sur la terre que parce que tout y est rompu par des vibrations d'amplitude et de durée diverses.
-- Georges Bataille
-- Georges Bataille
April 18, 2025 at 11:54 AM
L'amour et la vie ne paraissent individuels sur la terre que parce que tout y est rompu par des vibrations d'amplitude et de durée diverses.
-- Georges Bataille
-- Georges Bataille
abs jaaye bhaar mein mujhe biryani khaani hai
March 31, 2025 at 9:08 PM
abs jaaye bhaar mein mujhe biryani khaani hai
Some things just unlock a distant forgotten pasts of your life. Like how rewatching True Detective reminded me that I first tried Camel Blues because of Matthew McConaughey's character smoking them and now they're my regular order 🫠 a forgotten origin story has been resurrected, if you will.
March 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Some things just unlock a distant forgotten pasts of your life. Like how rewatching True Detective reminded me that I first tried Camel Blues because of Matthew McConaughey's character smoking them and now they're my regular order 🫠 a forgotten origin story has been resurrected, if you will.
Qu’est-ce que je ressens? Y a-t-il un nom pour cette émotion? Ou non?
March 21, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Qu’est-ce que je ressens? Y a-t-il un nom pour cette émotion? Ou non?
It's funny that we say "person of color" like white is not a color and like race is some inherent biological attribute lmfao.
Maybe we should say "racialized" to highlight the very real, institutionalized social processes that "mark" non-white people with race markers in order to subjugate them!
Maybe we should say "racialized" to highlight the very real, institutionalized social processes that "mark" non-white people with race markers in order to subjugate them!
March 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
It's funny that we say "person of color" like white is not a color and like race is some inherent biological attribute lmfao.
Maybe we should say "racialized" to highlight the very real, institutionalized social processes that "mark" non-white people with race markers in order to subjugate them!
Maybe we should say "racialized" to highlight the very real, institutionalized social processes that "mark" non-white people with race markers in order to subjugate them!
My partner couldn't remember what "cat whiskers" are called so instead they chose to say "mouth lashes" 😭🫠🤣
March 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
My partner couldn't remember what "cat whiskers" are called so instead they chose to say "mouth lashes" 😭🫠🤣
Have you noticed that the "alienation caused by colonial legacy" discussions coming from Indian/Pakistanis is always about things like English and never about things like Chai?
March 7, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Have you noticed that the "alienation caused by colonial legacy" discussions coming from Indian/Pakistanis is always about things like English and never about things like Chai?
Modernity is a tradition that tries to obscure the fact that it's a tradition.
March 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Modernity is a tradition that tries to obscure the fact that it's a tradition.
No one:
Me trying to flirt: Your kisses are a pharmakon.
Me trying to flirt: Your kisses are a pharmakon.
March 4, 2025 at 9:18 AM
No one:
Me trying to flirt: Your kisses are a pharmakon.
Me trying to flirt: Your kisses are a pharmakon.
"You traded your freedom for the luxury of feeling superior"
The Wave (1981; www.youtube.com/watch?v=D55L...) is a film that documents the experiment "The Third Wave" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thi... ) that explores how the German public came to accept the actions of the Nazi regime. Thrilling.
The Wave (1981; www.youtube.com/watch?v=D55L...) is a film that documents the experiment "The Third Wave" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thi... ) that explores how the German public came to accept the actions of the Nazi regime. Thrilling.
The Wave (1981) full movie
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March 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
"You traded your freedom for the luxury of feeling superior"
The Wave (1981; www.youtube.com/watch?v=D55L...) is a film that documents the experiment "The Third Wave" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thi... ) that explores how the German public came to accept the actions of the Nazi regime. Thrilling.
The Wave (1981; www.youtube.com/watch?v=D55L...) is a film that documents the experiment "The Third Wave" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thi... ) that explores how the German public came to accept the actions of the Nazi regime. Thrilling.