Anastasis: Philosophy, Politics, Revolution – Divya Dwivedi in conversation with Matti Kangaskoski

Philosopher Divya Dwivedi in conversation with writer Matti Kangaskoski

Ana-stasis in its secular sense means: coming over stasis. It is the rising up from the impasse of politics, which comprehends the whole world in its grip today – through global financial institutions and regimes of technology that sustain structural inequality, unemployment, disease, homelessness, and misery. Philosophy must name the laws that comprehend this stasis. Politics must be the fight for freedom for all people without exception. Then revolution would not remain the melancholic name of past events that appear “failed” in the rear view mirror of post-world-war world order, nor the name of counter-movements of identity without teleographs. Then revolution would be the fight to change the comprehending laws rather than merely resist the componential laws of countries, localities, sectors. Revolution would be: Ana-stasis.

Divya Dwivedi is a philosopher based in India, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, and co-founder of the journal Philosophy World Democracy. She is the co-author with Shaj Mohan of Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-Politics (2018) and Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics (2024).

Matti Kangaskoski is a poet and scholar based in Finland. He has written on the topics of the cultural logic of digital media and their influence on thought. His work of poetry Johdatus pimeään (2020) received the ‘Tanssiva karhu’ prize. His latest work of fiction, Kosmos ja kuolema, published in August 2024, explores cosmos, technology, and consciousness.