a teetering bulb
      of alienated dread
      and utopian dream
      of the conquest of bread
      not a postmodern meme
      of confusion and fear
      awkward and sincere 
      earnest and unironic
      not detached or sardonic
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  Most modern bureaucracies identify me with the name Pulkit Manocha.
  But more often, I'm called Pulkit.


What am I?

- An amorphous philistine philandering with philosophy, code, political theory, algorithms, software, and confusion.
- A bundle of questions and doubts that emerge from a critical rejection of conventional social norms and institutions.
- A fusion of influences, some of which cited and discussed on this website. 

What am I not?

- Not an instantiation of a platonic abstraction. Not a "software engineer", "man", "son", "_ist", or "_ian". 
- Not solely a consumer. Not what clothes I wear, what films I watch, what objects I purchase. 
- Not a solipsist. Not a singular cartesian entity emerging from vacuum. 
  
What do I currently care (and write) about?

- Writing better programs and solving interesting algorithmic problems.
- Crafting a political consciousness unclouded by reification and dogma
- Imagining a life more meaningful than one dictated by bourgeois injunctions
- Understanding violence, particularly its systemic manifestations.
- The politics of contentment socially contingent upon the suffering of another.
- Division of labour and what it means for my social existence. 
- Eschewing conventional notions of machismo (aesthetic and behavioral)


  

Sometimes I'm here: looking at books on Goodreads
And sometimes here: spamming my flippant thoughts
And sometimes here: rereading Kropotkin's appeal to the young
And sometimes here: tracking music on Last.fm
And sometimes here: maintaining a running thread of captivating images
And sometimes here: taking notes to improve my culinary library
And sometimes here: playing chess
And sometimes away..
  


Photo:
* post rain textures  
* dead mall diving
  
Text:
* Rubinia y musica [headphones please]
* 10 minute writeup: 2
* 10 minute writeup: 1
* New year's eve and banality
* Notes on Das Kapital (Vol 1) Part III: coming soon
* Notes on Das Kapital (Vol 1) Part II: The Transformation of Money into Capital
* Notes on Das Kapital (Vol 1) Part I: Commodities and Money
* Review of two novels - On rural indian tragedy
* An argument mental health, individualism, capitalist realism
* Paglia on foucault (introduced by yours truly in a rant)
* Record of a casual chat with a friend over banal politics
* Some notes on theses on feuerbach and marx from when i was 19
* Some notes on "technological somnambulism" by langdon winner from when I was 19
* A poem: I like fiction
* godard's Sauve Qui Peut (la vie) (1980)
* Unabridged version of address to culver city hall on reserving a space for a homeless shelter instead of a museum 24/09/2019


Sound: [Please use headphones]
* strings, a cuckoo and some other birds in c major
* experiments with bass and obese pluck on spaceship when sick
* wind, rain and birds. mix.
* a baby's indulgences on the keyboard of a spaceship. and another on what may or may not be music 


Video:
* Obligatory cat

Contact:
* pulkit12083 [at] iiitd [dot] ac [dot] in
* pmanocha [at] usc [dot] edu
* LinkedIn Patents Github


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