The Swaddle

On Piracy as Resistance

Why big tech surveillance, platform capitalism, and mismatched value systems have brought piracy back into the zeitgeist.

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Power

The Politicians vs. The Cartoonists

Future

Water Bankruptcy in the Blue Planet

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Power

How Urban Naxals Became a Rhetorical Weapon

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The Real Green Revolution

Great Extraction in the Great Nicobar

matters of the heart

A Requiem For the Human Heart

How the history of the organ is a barometer of human morality.

The Business of Being Literary

To Attend a Litfest, Kill Your Ambition First

Sex: The Final Frontier

Big Tech Wants You to Get Digisexual

Legalised Disenfranchisement

The SIR’s Architecture of Bureaucratic Violence

Podcast Series

The Missing Link

Browse Podcast Series

EP 06The Missing Link

Colonialism and The Gut

EP 05The Missing Link

Oceans and Memories

EP 04The Missing Link

Black Holes and Bodies

EP 03The Missing Link

Immortality and The Hydra

EP 02The Missing Link

Machines and Masculinity

EP 01The Missing Link

Butterflies and Borders

Palestinian History

Lina Soualem on Archiving Palestine

Sex 2.0

Robots, Virtual Intimacy and Sex in Space. Is This the Future of Sex?

Forgotten Crimes

Ep 2: A Sensational Trial

Nobin’s murder trial and Madhavchandra Giri’s adultery trial turned into spectator sports in Bengal. But was justice served?

Power

The Cult of the Teenage Messiah

Respectfully Disagree

Why Do We Love Rich People Dramas?

Why do we love Schitt's Creek and why does The Menu miss the mark? This week on 'Respectfully Disagree', we discuss class, opulence, and the optics of wealth.

Hot Girls For Walkable Cities

The Utopia of the Livable City

Marry Me Not

The End of the Marriage Plot

Objectified

The Story of The Bindi

In this episode, The Swaddle team explores the history of the bindi and how it has shaped debates around the appropriation of Hindu culture.

Unidentifying

I Have ADHD. Don't Call Me Neurodivergent.

In militantly insisting that they (we) simply be custom “accommodated” in a broken system, the neurodivergence movement is, paradoxically, guilty of considering the system faultless.

Power

Sonic Revolution: Punjab's 'Inquilabi'

India Sri Lanka Conflict

Who Has the Right to the Seas?

utilitarian science

'Vestigial' Organs, and Other Lies About Our Bodies

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The Rewind

Are Zombies a Product of 19th Century Slavery?

We look at the creation of zombies, Voodoo practices, and capitalist American appropriation. ‘The Rewind’ is The Swaddle’s short series exploring lesser-known histories and how they relate to our lives today.