Vikash Singh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685944 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vikash Singh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vikash |
| FAMILY NAME | Singh |
| SIGNATURE | SINGH V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Montclair State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5131-5753 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sovereignty, policing and legitimacy
This article describes and conceptualizes the experiences of police actions in the performance of a politics of exception in a democratic polity. In conversation with Carl Schmitt's authoritarian conservative understanding of 'the people', the narrative dwells on the role of the police in the assertions of sovereign legitimacy under a right-wing government. Surplus targeting and violence against a minority is deemed legitimate based on the will o…
Intelligent Agriculture
This study delves into the revolutionary possibilities of merging IoT and ML in intelligent agriculture, specifically looking at ways to improve crop selection and soil nutrient management. The need for more effective, data-driven farming methods is greater than ever before due to the rising worldwide demand for food and the severity of environmental concerns. In order to monitor the soil, weather, and crop health in real-time, IoT devices like w…
Enhancing Human-Machine Interaction in Industrial Automation
The modern industrial automation relies heavily on Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs) to create a vital connection between operators and their machines. This paper evaluates GP-Pro EX HMI design software capabilities by analyzing the ThreeLampBitInvert.prx specific example. This paper illustrates how GP-Pro EX software enables efficient HMI development and simulation and deployment through its features which lead to operational improvements and huma…
Investigation of co-combustion characteristics of distillery sludge and sugar mill waste
Interpreting Religion
Caste, Race, and Abjection
This article discusses continuities between the discourse of caste in ancient India, the racialization constitutive of the Enlightenment, and a similarly exclusionary, overdetermined conception of worthlessness—the lazy, immoral, deviant minorities—evident in contemporary racism as much as in the abandonment of a global underclass. We argue that the negative marking of a social condition or group as inferior and subhuman (on all kinds of grounds,…
Pentecostalism and Politics of Conversion in India
Hardwar
This article describes the narratives and projections that shaped the contested character of Hardwar and the river Ganges as symbols par excellence of the Hindus' claim to India's sacred geography over the last two hundred years. It deliberates on the tactics and practices through which Hardwar's ancient and legendary status has been employed to assert Hindu identity and territorial claims vis-à-vis the colonial administrators, but also to exclud…
Myths of meritocracy
The discourse of karma (behaviour), confounded with inherent psychic and material substance of the person/group (guna), was at the heart of India's caste ideology. This systematic and intuitive, albeit convoluted and phantasmic doctrine was critical to bridge the discrepancy between a pantheistic religious imaginary and the reality of exclusion and abjection. Although "karma" evokes an exotic orient, this ideology is near identical with the ideas…
Race, the Condition of Neo-Liberalism
This article addresses the social and historical relation between Chicago School neo-liberalism and contemporary racism, and its connections with the formations of racism in classical liberalism and its colonial character. I show the pragmatic and discursive operations of neo-racism in the context of this shift to a neo-liberal discourse, drawing particularly on Michel Foucault's seminars, Society Must be Defended, and Birth of Bio-politics. Inso…
Definitive Exclusions
Few texts have so centrally defined the institutionalized practice of sociology as Durkheim’s Rules of Sociological Method . Scrupulously differentiating the subject matter of the discipline from biology and psychology, Durkheim argued that the mandate of sociology was to study “social facts,” an objective entity—”a new species and to them must be exclusively assigned the term social” (Durkheim, 1982). In the relatively nascent field of nineteent…
Beyond religious fundamentalisms
Religious practice and the phenomenology of everyday violence in contemporary India
This article focuses on 'dread' in religious practice in contemporary India. It argues that the dread of everyday existence, which is as salient in a biographical temporality as it pervades the phenomenal environment, connects and transfers between religious practices and everyday life in India for the marginalized masses. For such dread, dominant liberal discourses, such as those of the nation, economy, or ego-centric performance, have neither t…
Work, Performance, and the Social Ethic of Global Capitalism
This ethnographic essay focuses on the relationship between religious performances and the “strong discourse” of contemporary global capitalism. It explores the subjective meaning and social significance of religious practice in the context of a rapidly expanding mass religious phenomenon in India. The narrative draws on Weber's insights on the intersections between religion and economy, phenomenological theory, performance studies, and Indian ph…
Precarious life and the ethics of care
This article relates certain figures of the subject in an emergent Indian pilgrimage. On the basis of ethnographic research and 15 in-depth interviews, I show that these religious subjectivities, phenomenologically immersed in highly precarious material conditions, are radically relational. Observations on the pilgrimage (en)counter the cognitivist assumptions of a body of scholarly opinion on contemporary religious practice. The analyst's attent…
Myths of meritocracy
The discourse of karma (behaviour), confounded with inherent psychic and material substance of the person/group (guna), was at the heart of India's caste ideology. This systematic and intuitive, albeit convoluted and phantasmic doctrine was critical to bridge the discrepancy between a pantheistic religious imaginary and the reality of exclusion and abjection. Although "karma" evokes an exotic orient, this ideology is near identical with the ideas…
Race, the Condition of Neo-Liberalism
This article addresses the social and historical relation between Chicago School neo-liberalism and contemporary racism, and its connections with the formations of racism in classical liberalism and its colonial character. I show the pragmatic and discursive operations of neo-racism in the context of this shift to a neo-liberal discourse, drawing particularly on Michel Foucault's seminars, Society Must be Defended, and Birth of Bio-politics. Inso…
Caste, Race, and Abjection
This article discusses continuities between the discourse of caste in ancient India, the racialization constitutive of the Enlightenment, and a similarly exclusionary, overdetermined conception of worthlessness—the lazy, immoral, deviant minorities—evident in contemporary racism as much as in the abandonment of a global underclass. We argue that the negative marking of a social condition or group as inferior and subhuman (on all kinds of grounds,…
Religious practice and the phenomenology of everyday violence in contemporary India
This article focuses on 'dread' in religious practice in contemporary India. It argues that the dread of everyday existence, which is as salient in a biographical temporality as it pervades the phenomenal environment, connects and transfers between religious practices and everyday life in India for the marginalized masses. For such dread, dominant liberal discourses, such as those of the nation, economy, or ego-centric performance, have neither t…
Work, Performance, and the Social Ethic of Global Capitalism
This ethnographic essay focuses on the relationship between religious performances and the “strong discourse” of contemporary global capitalism. It explores the subjective meaning and social significance of religious practice in the context of a rapidly expanding mass religious phenomenon in India. The narrative draws on Weber's insights on the intersections between religion and economy, phenomenological theory, performance studies, and Indian ph…
Precarious life and the ethics of care
This article relates certain figures of the subject in an emergent Indian pilgrimage. On the basis of ethnographic research and 15 in-depth interviews, I show that these religious subjectivities, phenomenologically immersed in highly precarious material conditions, are radically relational. Observations on the pilgrimage (en)counter the cognitivist assumptions of a body of scholarly opinion on contemporary religious practice. The analyst's attent…
Precarious life and the ethics of care
This article relates certain figures of the subject in an emergent Indian pilgrimage. On the basis of ethnographic research and 15 in-depth interviews, I show that these religious subjectivities, phenomenologically immersed in highly precarious material conditions, are radically relational. Observations on the pilgrimage (en)counter the cognitivist assumptions of a body of scholarly opinion on contemporary religious practice. The analyst's attent…
Work, Performance, and the Social Ethic of Global Capitalism
This ethnographic essay focuses on the relationship between religious performances and the “strong discourse” of contemporary global capitalism. It explores the subjective meaning and social significance of religious practice in the context of a rapidly expanding mass religious phenomenon in India. The narrative draws on Weber's insights on the intersections between religion and economy, phenomenological theory, performance studies, and Indian ph…
Definitive Exclusions
Few texts have so centrally defined the institutionalized practice of sociology as Durkheim’s Rules of Sociological Method . Scrupulously differentiating the subject matter of the discipline from biology and psychology, Durkheim argued that the mandate of sociology was to study “social facts,” an objective entity—”a new species and to them must be exclusively assigned the term social” (Durkheim, 1982). In the relatively nascent field of nineteent…
Beyond religious fundamentalisms
Religious practice and the phenomenology of everyday violence in contemporary India
This article focuses on 'dread' in religious practice in contemporary India. It argues that the dread of everyday existence, which is as salient in a biographical temporality as it pervades the phenomenal environment, connects and transfers between religious practices and everyday life in India for the marginalized masses. For such dread, dominant liberal discourses, such as those of the nation, economy, or ego-centric performance, have neither t…
Race, the Condition of Neo-Liberalism
This article addresses the social and historical relation between Chicago School neo-liberalism and contemporary racism, and its connections with the formations of racism in classical liberalism and its colonial character. I show the pragmatic and discursive operations of neo-racism in the context of this shift to a neo-liberal discourse, drawing particularly on Michel Foucault's seminars, Society Must be Defended, and Birth of Bio-politics. Inso…
Myths of meritocracy
The discourse of karma (behaviour), confounded with inherent psychic and material substance of the person/group (guna), was at the heart of India's caste ideology. This systematic and intuitive, albeit convoluted and phantasmic doctrine was critical to bridge the discrepancy between a pantheistic religious imaginary and the reality of exclusion and abjection. Although "karma" evokes an exotic orient, this ideology is near identical with the ideas…
Pentecostalism and Politics of Conversion in India
Hardwar
This article describes the narratives and projections that shaped the contested character of Hardwar and the river Ganges as symbols par excellence of the Hindus' claim to India's sacred geography over the last two hundred years. It deliberates on the tactics and practices through which Hardwar's ancient and legendary status has been employed to assert Hindu identity and territorial claims vis-à-vis the colonial administrators, but also to exclud…
Caste, Race, and Abjection
This article discusses continuities between the discourse of caste in ancient India, the racialization constitutive of the Enlightenment, and a similarly exclusionary, overdetermined conception of worthlessness—the lazy, immoral, deviant minorities—evident in contemporary racism as much as in the abandonment of a global underclass. We argue that the negative marking of a social condition or group as inferior and subhuman (on all kinds of grounds,…
Interpreting Religion
Investigation of co-combustion characteristics of distillery sludge and sugar mill waste
Intelligent Agriculture
This study delves into the revolutionary possibilities of merging IoT and ML in intelligent agriculture, specifically looking at ways to improve crop selection and soil nutrient management. The need for more effective, data-driven farming methods is greater than ever before due to the rising worldwide demand for food and the severity of environmental concerns. In order to monitor the soil, weather, and crop health in real-time, IoT devices like w…
Enhancing Human-Machine Interaction in Industrial Automation
The modern industrial automation relies heavily on Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs) to create a vital connection between operators and their machines. This paper evaluates GP-Pro EX HMI design software capabilities by analyzing the ThreeLampBitInvert.prx specific example. This paper illustrates how GP-Pro EX software enables efficient HMI development and simulation and deployment through its features which lead to operational improvements and huma…
Sovereignty, policing and legitimacy
This article describes and conceptualizes the experiences of police actions in the performance of a politics of exception in a democratic polity. In conversation with Carl Schmitt's authoritarian conservative understanding of 'the people', the narrative dwells on the role of the police in the assertions of sovereign legitimacy under a right-wing government. Surplus targeting and violence against a minority is deemed legitimate based on the will o…
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