A deep reading of Walter Benjamin's prescient essay on the aestheticisation of politics, applied to the contemporary media environment. When is anger legitimate political expression, and when is it mere theatre?

The Aesthetics of Anger: Culture, Media, and the Weaponisation of Feeling

Economist and researcher Priya Venkataraman joins the programme to challenge the comfortable narrative of American decline and the dawn of a genuinely multipolar world order.

The Multipolar Mirage: A Conversation with Priya Venkataraman on the Post-American Order

A conversation with political philosopher Dr. Anjali Mehta on what happens to democratic accountability when the state's decision-making is delegated to automated systems — welfare, policing, taxation, and sentencing.

Governing by Algorithm: Democratic Accountability in the Age of Automated Decision-Making

In the inaugural episode, Maruti Nandan sets out the founding thesis of The Opposite Room: that productive dissent is a discipline, not a reflex. He examines the difference between opposition as performance and opposition as political craft.

The Architecture of Dissent: Why Opposition Must Be Built, Not Performed

Join readers and listeners who prefer the complexity of the opposite room over the simplicity of the echo chamber.

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The Architecture of Dissent: Why Opposition Must Be Built, Not Performed

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The Aesthetics of Anger: Culture, Media, and the Weaponisation of Feeling

The Multipolar Mirage: A Conversation with Priya Venkataraman on the Post-American Order

Governing by Algorithm: Democratic Accountability in the Age of Automated Decision-Making

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