Attention and Drift

Celebrates Santayana and Cavell's passion, wit, and deep appreciation for life's serendipities, emphasizing their ability to embrace both continuity and contingency in thought and creation.

Prasanta Chakravarty is Associate Professor of English at the University of Delhi and the editor of the web journal Humanities Underground. His most recent work is The Creature: In Power and Pain (2022). His other works include Like Parchment in the Fire: Literature and Radicalism in the English Civil War (2006), a monograph on Early Modern radical heretic culture; The Opulence of Existence: Essays on Aesthetics and Politics (2016), a collection of essays on literary forms and our political predicament; and Time, Doubt and Wonder in the Humanities: Between the Tick and the Tock (2019). He has edited three critical anthologies: Shrapnel Minima, Writings from Humanities Underground (2014), Populism and Its Limits: After Articulation (2020) and Assured Self, Restive Self: Encounters with Crisis (2023). He has also co-edited Machiavelli Then and Now (2021) together with Sukanta Chaudhuri. He has published four volumes of poetry.