Mala Chatterjee

philosopher, writer, @columbialaw professor✨thinking about how info, art, tech, expression + illness→identity across space/over time✨psychedelic music lover💫🖤

[Mala Chatterjee @nirrvala]

this essay, "Saved by Infinite Jest," is the most personal & vulnerable piece I've written. It's a surreal honor to see it in @aeonmag today. I'm so grateful to my amazing editor @samhaselby for believing it was worth sharing & empowering me to share it 🖤
https://t.co/hqqmY8eWjL

[Mala Chatterjee @nirrvala]

DJing as editing time 🔥 @DJJeffMills 🙏🏾✨💫

[Pioneer Works @PioneerWorks_]

“Being a DJ and producer makes you better at editing time, and you become more attuned to what could be—or should be—done.” Techno's most vaunted architect, Jeff Mills (@DJJeffMills) talks night work, lifespans, and the influence of Tony Allen. https://t.co/2m3rWbgvdT

[Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks]

"Cheese is just preserved milk with certain cultures reinforced to make it taste the way it does. Similarly, you could say that music has the same structure that's put down as a recording."

-Brittany Dennison interviews Carlos Souffront

https://t.co/IACY3Aq2Ou

[Lawrence Solum @lsolum]

Download of the Week: “A Functionalist Theory of Legal Persons” by Chatterjee, https://t.co/aUynEkDuYI - The Download of the Week is A Functionalist Theory of Legal Persons by Mala Chatterjee.

[Mala Chatterjee @nirrvala]

Thank you! And thank you @davidchalmers42 for all the inspo :)

[Lawrence Solum @lsolum]

Chatterjee on Extended Legal Personality, https://t.co/jno8pRYaV7 - Mala Chatterjee (Columbia Law School) has posted From Extended Personality to Extended Minds: Toward an Expanded Theory of Legal Personality (Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory: Volume IV (forthcoming 2026)) on SSRN.

[Mark C @txsinatrafan]

One of the hardest things to deal with is people who say that DFW is an author for bros. It is my favorite book by a wide margin because at its core, it's a book about humanity and connections. The essay author, Mala Chatterjee, puts it thusly:

[Lawrence Solum @lsolum]

Chatterjee on Extended Legal Personality, https://t.co/jno8pRYaV7 - Mala Chatterjee (Columbia Law School) has posted From Extended Personality to Extended Minds: Toward an Expanded Theory of Legal Personality (Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory: Volume IV (forthcoming 2026)) on SSRN.

[Michael M. Danziger @mmdanziger1]

Beautiful essay by @nirrvala How Infinite Jest tethered me to life when I almost let it go – https://t.co/PjBlZfaZ8W

[Mala Chatterjee @nirrvala]

@mmdanziger1 thank you !

[Mala Chatterjee @nirrvala]

I wrote about illness, pain, & @JenniferLFeeley's @nyrbclassics translation of Xi Xi's "Mourning a Breast" for @clereviewbooks. It's very special to share some thoughts on what I've spent so much of my life thinking about. I could write about this forever.

[Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks]

"What illness and pain cast into relief is that our minds will always be lost in translation—and will always remain in a liminal space—somewhere between our embodiment and the outer world."

@nirrvala on Xi Xi's "Mourning a Breast" @nyrbclassics
https://t.co/BPS9XvT5wb

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

“The glue of constitutional democracy is not the U.S. Marshals Service but a political culture that demands respect for the rule of law,” Thomas P. Schmidt writes: https://t.co/qw9H0N6lTQ

[Mala Chatterjee @nirrvala]

Thanks @RealClearBooks for sharing my piece on illness, pain, and @JenniferLFeeley's @nyrbclassics translation of "Mourning a Breast" by Xi Xi in @clereviewbooks. 'Embodiment as Enigma' is linked below :)

https://t.co/clEJT2Y3s4

[Mala Chatterjee @nirrvala]

@HowToDressWell lololololol

[Mala Chatterjee @nirrvala]

@JenniferLFeeley thank you for these kind words + your beautiful translation! :)

[Jennifer Feeley @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social @JenniferLFeeley]

Thank you for this lovely, thoughtful review! ✨ (I'm not on this site much these days so only just read it now) I look forward to reading more of your writing.

[Mala Chatterjee @nirrvala]

I wrote about illness, pain, & @JenniferLFeeley's @nyrbclassics translation of Xi Xi's "Mourning a Breast" for @clereviewbooks. It's very special to share some thoughts on what I've spent so much of my life thinking about. I could write about this forever.

[Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks]

"What illness and pain cast into relief is that our minds will always be lost in translation—and will always remain in a liminal space—somewhere between our embodiment and the outer world."

@nirrvala on Xi Xi's "Mourning a Breast" @nyrbclassics
https://t.co/BPS9XvT5wb

[Mala Chatterjee @nirrvala]

I wrote about illness, pain, & @JenniferLFeeley's @nyrbclassics translation of Xi Xi's "Mourning a Breast" for @clereviewbooks. It's very special to share some thoughts on what I've spent so much of my life thinking about. I could write about this forever. https://t.co/clEJT2Y3s4

[Mala Chatterjee @nirrvala]

Twin Peaks: the Return is truly @DAVID_LYNCH’s MO, magnum opus.🥹🙏🏾

[Mr. Chau @Srirachachau]

Another great thing about The Return is bumping Albert up to like third lead. Getting to spend so much time with him and Gordon was so special

[Mala Chatterjee @nirrvala]

@hering_david Gutted

[Mala Chatterjee @nirrvala]

@LAReviewofBooks + I had so much fun discussing BPD on @wearemolten’s 🔥 new podcast Basket Case, with fabulous host Nicole Kelly, in the recent episode “not the person anyone wants to be.” 🔥🔥🔥

https://t.co/roO1q2ksM2

[Mala Chatterjee @nirrvala]

closed out this beautiful issue of @thedrift_mag with more ~BPD content~ and some broader thoughts on writing about therapy ✨

[Mala Chatterjee @nirrvala]

If you’d like a deeper look at BPD: for the @LAReviewofBooks, I poured my heart out in the essay “Transcendent Luminescence, Ravaging Flames: On Alexander Kriss’s ‘Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder.’”

https://t.co/jvtWhURnPQ