Independent publication by Kanav Jain · Since 2024
The Crumple Zone
Essays on how power, technology, and institutions push human beings into the crumple zone.
Long-form essays about AI, disability, care, medicine, and the systems that offload their failures onto everyone underneath them.
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Jainism essays
Essays connecting Jain thought, nonviolence, refusal, and political life. 7 essays in this theme.
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The Marginalization and Erasure of Jainism
Confronting a Neglected Past: A Historical and Cultural Exploration
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Why 'Anarchist Jainism' is as Redundant as 'Chai Tea'
Unlike many religions, Ascetic Jainism was built in absence of, and in opposition to, state power
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Autism, Careerism, and Cultural Pressures as a Jain Indian American
Internalized ableism and its ties to South Asian American mental health awareness
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Jain Amnesia: Complicity in Hindutva and the Fantasy of Protection
the community's reluctance to disavow Hindutva in its pursuit of Hindu adjacency reeks of a Faustian bargain
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Structural Ahimsa vs. Commodity Ahimsa
moving Jainism beyond Ethical Consumption towards Systemic Transformation
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Reclaiming Jainism's Radical Potential
A Subaltern Critique and the Emergence of Left Jainism and Jain Leftism
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