I’m an independent researcher. In my transdisciplinary work, I seek a philosophically oriented and historically grounded critical engagement with the material-discursive processes that constitute contemporary computational culture. I’m particularly interested in: how the logics of the artificial neural network are mapped onto contemporary literary narratives and media forms; and how, in imagining machine cognition, human subjects negotiate the problem of lending subjectivity to software objects, and what it reveals about our shifting understandings of intelligence, cognition, and consciousness. More broadly, my work engages literary and media studies, science and technology studies, and the philosophy of mind and cognitive science writ large to interrogate questions of process and emergence, representation and mediation, identity and agency, technics and individuation, evolution and epiphylogenesis, and personhood and ethics.

I maintain a number of additional interests. See the Research page for details.

I received my postgraduate academic training—in literary studies, translation theory, and critical theory broadly construed—at the University of Hyderabad. Prior to this, I obtained a B.A. in English from Gauhati University.

Additionally, I’m a freelance copy-editor and translator (between Assamese and English; from French into Assamese).

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