by David Ludden | Jun 17, 2025 | Global Asia Blog, Hot Topics
AI is a tool inside capitalism to replace human labor with machinery. Using it and trying to control it politically is part of our struggle to survive/thrive in the context of increasing control of our world by investors in capital accumulation. Keeping that reality...
by David Ludden | Jun 11, 2025 | Global Asia Blog
The colonization of World History began when Europeans carried their own peculiar forms of historical knowledge production deep into all the continents. Colonized History thus developed so as to privilege Europe, its colonies, and their relations with “others.”...
by David Ludden | Aug 15, 2024 | Global Asia Blog
2024. Sept 13. 10:15AM-12:15PM, Cantor Center (36 E. 8th St.), Rm. 102. Presentation: “Globalization, Religion, and Ethnonationalism” This presentation is part of a research project in the NYU Global Asia Program on Troubled National Territories. Over many centuries,...
by David Ludden | Jul 21, 2024 | Global Asia Blog
Dina Siddiqi, “Bangladesh’s Second Independence: A Personal Account.” in the Funambulist (a platform that engages with the politics of space and bodies) Naveeda Khan, HERE is her Blog. “Mental Sickness”: Facing Authoritarian...
by David Ludden | Sep 2, 2022 | Global Asia Blog
“The Guest House” , by Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī This being human is a guest house.Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness,some momentary awareness comesas an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all!Even if they’re a crowd of...
