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 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://w

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. Recommended reading: Tractatus Logico Philosophicus, Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein Psychology - Cicarelli Developmental Psychology - Harlow K. Puttaswamy V. Union of India Criminal Law - Ratan Lal and Dheeraj Lal Music: @triggerfish.wut, Logo by @edgy.ajji on instagram Support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/deepfriedneurons Or buy me a coffee at: www.buymeacoffee.com/d

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 o

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 - Jurispr

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/su

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. Books reviewed for this episode: The Rebel - Albert Camus The Emma Goldman Collection - Emma Goldman On Anarchism - Noam Chomsky Like a Thief in Broad Daylight - Slavoj Zizek The Second Sex - Simone De Beauvoire Ancillary references to: Thus Spake Zarathustra - Freidreich Neitzsche Animal Farm - George Orwell Inglorious Empire - Sashi Tharoor Hero Of Two Worlds - Mike Duncan Some of the Media Sources used for the creation of

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 Fact with Keshav Naidu and Hussian Merchant: https://open.spotify.com/show/6VEqlTf1A46UNZfD7PmrEg?si=I-MI7P27QvOf4K3Yl98K4A Support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/deepfriedneurons DFN merch: https://www.instagram.com/p/CCQkpTcF54d/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Follow me on social media: www.instagram.com/deepfriedneurons https://www.facebook.com/DeepFriedNeu...

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. Check out Sultana's Work at: sultanazana.github.io/dreams.io sultanazana.github.io/fieldness.io whattt.cargo.site fieldness.com Support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/deepfriedneurons DFN merch: https://www.instagram.com/p/CCQkpTcF54d/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Follow me on social media: www.instagram.com/deepfriedneurons https://www.facebook.com/DeepFriedNeu...

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?" More about Solomon Asch's Work: https://www.tutor2u.net/psychology/reference/conformity-asch-1951 Support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/deepfriedneurons DFN merch: https://www.instagram.com/p/CCQkpTcF54d/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Follow me on social media: www.instagram.com/deepfriedneurons https://www.facebook.com/DeepFriedNeu...

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. Kernatron's Video essay on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TktkT8dXe_U&t=410s Support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/deepfriedneurons DFN merch: https://www.instagram.com/p/CCQkpTcF54d/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Follow me on social med

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 on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/deepfriedneurons DFN merch: https://www.instagram.com/p/CCQkpTcF54d/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Follow me on social media: www.instagram.com/deepfriedneurons https://www.facebook.com/DeepFriedNeu...

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 in it. We also discuss understanding missteps in history, and how accommodating them in our perspective is important. Support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/deepfriedneurons Follow me on social media: www.instagram.com/deepfriedneurons https://www.facebook.com/DeepFriedNeu...

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 anchors to contextualise how personal the experience of nostalgia can be. Support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/deepfriedneurons Follow me on social media: www.instagram.com/deepfriedneurons https://www.facebook.com/DeepFriedNeu...

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/ Support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/deepfriedneurons Follow me on social media: www.instagram.com/deepfriedneurons https://www.facebook.com/DeepFriedNeu...

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 very particular part of the Indian caste society which provides perspective to understand how deep-rooted it really is. Yashica Dutt: https://www.instagram.com/yashicadutt/ Sumeet Samos: https://www.instagram.com/sumeetsamos/ Akkarmashi (outcaste): https://www.amazon.com/Outcaste-Akkarmashi-Sharankumar-Limbale/dp/0195694066 Snapmanlol: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFr-zdeTRttdMvmOzyJ9Njw Support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/deepfriedneurons Follow me on social media: www.instagram.com/deepfriedneurons https://www.facebook.com/DeepFriedNeu...

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 closest to an objective parameter we can come to when trying to understand extraterrestrial life. Episode #71 - Time Capsules: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DyO6pPVYSE Kurzgesagt's video with better everything on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhFK5_Nx9xY Support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/deepfriedneurons Follow me on social media: www.instagram.com/deepfriedneurons https://www.facebook.com/DeepFriedNeu...

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 condition as we understand it today. I also indulge myself and talk about Niel Postman talking about Aldous Huxley's brave new world, and spend 15 minutes soaked in information that makes the existence of this episode ironic.   MK Ultra Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4cyf...  Doge but fitter happier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JWkq...  Niel Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death"  https://www.amazon.in/Amusing-Ourselv...   Support me on Patreon!  https://www.patreon.com/deepfriedneurons  Follow me on social media:  www.instagram.com/deepfriedneurons  https://www.f

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 formulated was with the intents and purposes to justify monarchy. We also take a tiny detour to the prominence of ancient Egyptian Symbolism in popular culture. Geraldine Pinch's Book on Egyptian Mythology: https://www.amazon.in/Egyptian-Mythology-Goddesses-Traditions-Ancient/dp/0195170245/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=geraldine+pinch&qid=1600026868&sr=8-1 Support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/deepfriedneurons Follow me on social media: www.instagram.com/deepfriedneurons https://www.facebook.com/DeepFriedNeurons

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 A Down and comedians and social commentators like Goerge Carlin along with the entire journalistic cover around Conformation bais that is relevant to this day. Amrit Vatsa's Video I borrowed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE0JPxktGQk Manufacturing Consent: https://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media/dp/0375714499 Support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/deepfriedneurons Follow me on social media: www.instagram.com/deepfriedneurons https://www.facebook.com/DeepFriedNeurons

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 this episode. The video about Anhedonia by Dr Todd Gande https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz7xGo61Az8&t=3s Support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/deepfriedneurons Follow me on social media: www.instagram.com/deepfriedneurons https://www.facebook.com/DeepFriedNeurons