Nishant X, PhD

Alum @UTAustin; @UniofOxford, Postdoc @Tsinghua_Uni, Asian Politics & Political Thought, Commentary, Literature & Poetry; Wanderer; Your Friendly Commissar

[Nishant X, PhD @ReMarxed]

@wedaant @Wangchuk66 0 carbon emission tanks needed

[Sopo Japaridze @sopjap]

Now free for everyone!

[Nishant X, PhD @ReMarxed]

@Hrhuffinstuff69 Oh and you decide what is the truth but not the person working? If you'd cash your entitlement, you'd perhaps live a better life than you're now.

[Nishant X, PhD @ReMarxed]

@SophiaJournal ...how do we think life, violence, power, sovereignty, and political community beyond the categories inherited from modernity? Those questions take me across philosophy, theology, animal studies, political theory, international relations, and intellectual history.

[Nishant X, PhD @ReMarxed]

🧵 New article:

“The Silence of the Animals: Heidegger, Jonas, Agamben, and the Unthought Metaphysics and Theology of Suffering.”

What happens to our understanding of suffering when the suffering being is not human? @SophiaJournal

Free access link: https://t.co/t6LuI7ZpR7

[Nishant X, PhD @ReMarxed]

@SophiaJournal The question is whether non-human life can be approached not as an object of domination or compassion, but as an agential participant in a shared creation. This article is also part of a broader set of questions that has increasingly shaped my work...

[Nishant X, PhD @ReMarxed]

@SophiaJournal ...the problem is not only the human/animal distinction, but the machinery of knowledge that produces and sustains it. The article concludes by arguing for a post-metaphysical ethics that moves beyond both the instrumentalisation of animals and the paternalism of pity.

[Nishant X, PhD @ReMarxed]

@SophiaJournal I read Heidegger, Jonas, and Agamben not simply to identify their limitations, but to ask what their projects make possible—and what remains unthought within them. Agamben's critique of the “anthropological machine” is especially important here...

[Nishant X, PhD @ReMarxed]

@SophiaJournal The article develops the idea of animal suffering as a “negative metaphysics”: a non-linguistic alterity that unsettles ontologies built around language and rationality. Animal suffering does not merely demand a new ethics. It forces us to reconsider the categories.

[Nishant X, PhD @ReMarxed]

@SophiaJournal I argue that this is not simply an ethical omission. The silence surrounding animal suffering points towards a deeper problem in the metaphysical frameworks through which Western thought has organised the relationship between language, rationality, life, and the human.

[Nishant X, PhD @ReMarxed]

@SophiaJournal I approach this question through Heidegger, Jonas, & Agamben. All three, in different ways, challenge established conceptions of human subjectivity, ontology, life, & exceptionalism. Yet their critiques also retain an anthropocentric residue.

[Nishant X, PhD @ReMarxed]

@Hrhuffinstuff69 Sure. Academics get paid per article - sounds like paradise.

[Nishant X, PhD @ReMarxed]

My latest article is out in @ROAPEjournal:
I argue that debates over Burkina Faso have become fixated on personalities while neglecting the political economy of sovereignty, resource control, and anti-imperialism: https://t.co/u7P47kLfZo

#BurkinaFaso #Sahel #PoliticalEconomy

[Nishant X, PhD @ReMarxed]

@dpradhanbjp Mr. Pradhan, all your propagandistic talk aside, let me give you a small but eternal piece of advice:

If you are standing against the students, you're on the wrong side of history.

And history does not spare those who live on their knees. Resign.

[Nishant X, PhD @ReMarxed]

Single most important thread that sums this all up.

[Siddharth @svaradarajan]

On the day Narendra Modi celebrated a bogus landmark—and world leaders took advantage of his renowned and embarrassing susceptibility to flattery by getting staffers to draft tweets congratulating him—the US military killed three Indian sailors in a deliberate attack on a civilian ship.

Ships with Indian sailors were attacked the day before, and have been attacked again today.

This is the reality of the ‘comprehensive global strategic partnership’ with the US that Modi looks forward to working on—where the US does whatever it wants, including killing Indian nationals on the high seas or territorial waters of sovereign countries, or telling India whom it can and can’t buy oil from, and god knows what else, and Modi bows down and accepts it all.

You know what emboldened the US military? The fact that the previous day, it attacked a ship and placed 24 Indians in harm’s way and Modi’s officials were busy justifying the US action instead of condemning it.

Now that Indian soldiers have been killed, the MEA is going through the motions of summoning a US diplomat to protest but it knows full well that this is an empty gesture, meant to cover their tracks with the Indian public. The official MEA statement is unwilling to even name the country which killed the Indian sailors.

This is not the first time that Modi and @DrSJaishankar have behaved in such a craven fashion. When the Israeli military killed Col Waibhav Kale—a retired Indian Army officer working for the UN—in Gaza in 2024, there was no condemnation of this by the Modi government.

4400 days of ghulami, and counting.

[Nishant X, PhD @ReMarxed]

In a country that lacks substance for ontology, entomology is the only viable discipline. Introducing the Department of Political Entomology.

A satirical essay on contemporary Indian politics, hierarchy, dignity, protest, & insects.

https://t.co/z4HRrrMevQ

#cockroach #India

[Nishant X, PhD @ReMarxed]

@sopjap This type of little "gusano" is what Fidel warned us against. In their service of imperialism and shining boots of their masters, they forget any and every notion of care for the people.

[Nishant X, PhD @ReMarxed]

@DCTwining This propaganda is rotting in its own grave. People sell their labour to survive but the likes of "analysts" in the West sell their conscience, intellect, and -- whatever metaphysical meaning is left of it -- their soul.

[Nishant X, PhD @ReMarxed]

@DCTwining Ah, to "persecution" it settles when the false narratives of "genocide" did not sell? And genocide reminds me: there is one happening in Gaza; it is "live." Yet, no accountability from keepers of freedom of "anything" over no coverage? Nobody cares about your propaganda.

[Nishant X, PhD @ReMarxed]

@narendramodi It will mean something significant when ecology and environment are cared for. Biodiversity is a heritage in transformation but it has to be preserved actively rather than in abstract talks and contradictory policies. Biodiversity and ecology are political; so is selling them.