Utopian projects, history tells us, have usually ended in disaster. Perhaps we are already living through the disastrous effects of Silicon Valley utopianism without realizing it.
Hello from San Francisco, and welcome to the first edition of The Global Pulse—a monthly newsletter that aims to offer a distinct take on matters of global significance. We will go wide across the landscapes of culture, media, politics and technology, and engage with developments that might impact communities across the world, including in India and the Indian diaspora. The Global Pulse will be written from the vantage point of an itinerant who has lived in nine cities across India and the US, travelled to a few more on the map and currently resides in San Francisco.
Beyond San Francisco …
Rohit is a professor of communication at Santa Clara University. His research centres on global media and culture, online communities and the relationship of media, memory and violence. He is the author or editor of four books, most recently, The Gita for a Global World: Ethical Action in an Age of Flux (Westland 2021). His current book projects focus on disability in global culture and media and media representations of the 1992-93 communal riots in Mumbai. His writing has been featured in Time, The Conversation, South China Morning Post, Scroll, The Wire and The Caravan. You can find out more about him at www.rohitchopra.com.
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