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Sanjana Sheth is an essayist and writer. She describes herself as the internet’s greatest victim, and its most shimmering export. She has studied Political Science, English, and Sociology in Delhi and Paris. Soon, she will be pursuing an MPhil at Cambridge.

Here’s an introduction to her research interest:

It is an ordinary evening. My conversations with friends flitter over Twitter feeds, fractured dating, and the most recent Salem trial with wry smiles and good comedic timing. What a time to be alive, we repeat, again and again, running on electric realism. We do not just consume popular culture, we are popular culture: raised in the fluorescence of Paris Hilton, populism, and a temporarily-deferred-but-definitely-happening people’s revolution. Look at the motion picture projections of iOSed innovation on the cave wall! Savour the shimmering socialist irony in the shadows!

We are languishing in the echo chambers of our Day and Age. Draped in liveries of vape smoke and individuality on-demand, we have been born into a world with staggering global connectivity and no world wars. We try to explain away the general airs of heartbreak and hedonism that hang in the cloud by blaming our parents (we’re reading Freud properly now, thanks for nothing 20^th Century) or by blaming capitalism (the only silver bullet in my intellectual arsenal). But we need to ask seriously, or at least as seriously as anyone born after the year 2000 could: what does it mean to be alive right now? How are our inner lives interacting with the radical technological and cultural changes introduced over the past decade? And relatedly, did you think my last tweet was funny and nonchalant?

Dried in the desert heat of irony, chilled by the buzzing iPhone in my palm, welcome to diacritics. Here, I study the culture of the 21^st century as one of its most committed captors. In my work, I hope to dig through the sociological trenches while preserving both my impeccable manicure, and devotion to piquant political texts. 

read her other writing:

dirty magazine – interviews with architects of the indian feminist movement, film reviews, historical deep-dives, and internet culture: https://www.thedirtymagazine.com/search?query=sanjana+sheth

blue labyrinths – on taylor swift and totalitarianism: https://bluelabyrinths.com/2024/04/14/taylor-swift-and-totalitarianism/

ALMA magazines – essays on instagram and sexualisation: https://www.almamagazines.com/topical-comments/the-self-sexualisation-of-young-women-online/

get in touch below, or reach out at +919820927822 and sanjanaswriting@gmail.com ❤