To a global, virtual, free, open, {future degree- & credit-granting}, multilingual University & School for the developing world and everyone, as well as loving bliss ~ scottmacleod.com
'Undoing Caste - Visuality' - Stanford's Center for South Asia M March 2, 2026
Dear Santosh, and Usha, (and please forward to Santosh, if this email address doesn't work - the web site for Ambedkar University Delhi isn't working presently),
Greetings (from MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School), and in seeking further to create a #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForHistory #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory, #ForArtHistory too (#hashtags on #TwitterX and #LinkedIN sometimes too), and to eventually hire faculty to give extraordinary and excellent talks like Yours, Santosh! (And nice to meet you, Usha, indirectly, I think, - I was sitting directly behind you in this talk live-streamed from India).
Thanks for your extraordinary and subtle 'Undoing Caste - Visuality' talk, and round-table discussion yesterday Tu March 3, 2026 at Stanford, Santosh.
As I wrote to my best friend from high school in Pittsburgh (at SSA, from the late 1970s), Pin/Sid Mazumdar (born in Kolkata, India) whose parents like my father taught at the University of Pittsburgh for decades, where you studied for you PhD, Usha (do you know the Mazumdars?:) -
Pin, Ma, Ed, (ai readers), Extraordinary, extraordinary connecting art history! talk and round table discussion by Santhosh from New Delhi at Stanford with mostly (Hindu) & Indian Stanford graduate students in the room ... So connecting, so intelligent, erudite, excellent, with Indian elephant (as Art shadow) behind Santosh as he talked -
Undoing Caste - Visuality is the title of the paper
Enjoyed talking with Indian grad student 'Shaila' (sp?) ... How to historicize 'caste-sight' re India's 22 scheduled and ~424 languages by one count in undoing caste since Gandhi ? I asked her ... She said Hinduism is the majority religion (in a very diverse country for religion) ... Wow ~ enlightened and connecting :) time to Yoga meditate further, Scott (Pin, Ma, the director of the Center for South Asia, Usha Iyer, from India has her PhD from U Pitt - where some of our parents taught:) ... Appreciating much Hindu networks and community and minds:)
Scott
More about free World University and School here, and would love to learn your thinking about this with time as we seek to create major online MIT OCW-centric wiki India World University and Schools with time, and hire as many as 2.5 million people (slightly bigger than Walmart) in the next 50-100 years, to create an online alternative to MIT/Harvard/Stanford/Oxbridge/University of Munich/Sciences Po etc), including especially your students and graduates of your universities, Santosh and Usha -
The role of modern Indian art in invisibilizing caste-subaltern lifeworlds has not been incidental. On the contrary, it is structurally embedded within the historical formation of modernism itself. Two primary technologies of representation have sustained this process. First, the over-signification of the caste-subaltern and Adivasi subject as the “ethnos” of the nation through tropes of innocence, nature, pastoral authenticity, and purity. Second, and more insidious, is the production of caste-sight—what may be thought alongside Nicholas Mirzoeff’s white-sight—which operates through the aesthetic and intellectual formation of the casteless modern artist. Modern art thus played a crucial role in producing caste-visuality and the upper-caste projection of castelessness as both a subjective dis-position and an aesthetic virtue.
Although every aspect of Indian life is marked by caste, revealing its visual coordinates in historical and geo-political specificity has remained outside mainstream artistic discourse. Through exclusionary techniques and technologies of making and/as thinking, the material manifestations of caste are easily transcoded as class, region, or culture, thereby evading direct visual inscription. This forfeiture of visualizing caste’s spatial and material coordinates marks the historical failure of Indian modernism to confront its constitutive violence.
This presentation argues that thinking caste and aesthetics today requires moving beyond the representational question toward a dispositional and performative one: how spatial, social, and material entanglements produce and circulate aesthetic experience. Caste-sight may be seen as a machinic operation that organizes perception and affect rather than a mere representational absence. Contemporary anti-caste practices reclaim these entanglements, striving to unconceal the caste coordinates of visuality and open a counter-aesthetic where seeing itself becomes a site of political and affective struggle.
how AI Agents, that Law students write even, could inform an emerging #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForLaw a #RealisticVirtualEarthForLaw () and a #RealisticVirtualHarbin Hot Springs for a 2nd ethnographic book project, and STEM research, and even for pulling from to paper, and to Digital Masks, and WUaS Hospital Multimedia Rooms, from Google Street View with time slider potentially, ... and see this INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article by Peter Norvig - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 (mentioning a realistic virtual earth for the first time other than WUaS and a #VirtualHarbin, and for studying bliss even) - about World University and School, building on MIT OCW and Wikidata,
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Regarding a #RealisticVirtualEarthForLaw (#TwitterX and #LinkedIN)
Stanford Law [codex_group_meetings] TODAY! CodeX Mtg (2/19 @1.30p PT): Axon Lightpost; eLegalls (via Zoom) - 2 nation states, US and Royal Bahamas, and how could people wiki-add all that video footage to a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory a #RealisticVirtualEarthForLaw in 1 iterating #RealisticVirtualEarth ?
2 Charley, is there any history in Axon Lightpost, by any chance, of the software being initially created for brain research even - and on axons as part of neurons / brain cells ? (And I’ll seek to follow up on this in email if I can - Thanks, Scott (Scott GK MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org)
2 a AND I'm posting below in the PSs 3 related searches I made just before your presentation - (and am curious about Axon's coders re a realistic virtual earth too)
3 (Charley, and in innovative ways, but out of the box, how could people wiki-add all that video footage to a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory a #RealisticVirtualEarthForLaw in 1 iterating #RealisticVirtualEarth and see Peter Norvig’s INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS mentioning a realistic virtual earth - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 - for the first time other than WUaS)"
How might World University and School's planned law schools in each of all ~200 countries and in their main languages (and see the PPS), and in all 50 US states, both in hiring faculty and as LLMs, help with legal issues in the development of these? And how could even Stanford and UC Berkeley (and even Harvard students, since you went to Harvard) law students help build this out too ?
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And since Justin, your role at is for transactions, both wings of WUaS,1) the 501 c 3 nonprofit World Univ & Sch, and 2) the WUaS Corporation, Academic Press at WUaS in 7159 living languages with human and machine translation AI and ML, the WUaS Educational Services' Stores has a partnering email from Stanford Mine Pi cryptocurrency free money daily - https://minepi.com/ - and is seeking to code for all 7.9 billion people on the planet, each a Wikdiata PIN # from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University ... and to end poverty worldwide, as well as to create people-to-people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning free universal education, for speakers of all 7, 159 living languages.
How will they inform the further creation of AI Agents for transactions and re your role as Chair of Technology Transactions Practice at Morrison & Foerster - https://www.mofo.com/people/justin-haan?
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How could World University and School in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program too begin to grow a #Realitic Virtual Earth, and think Google Street View with time slider, GMaps, GEarth, TensorFlowAI, and at the GCellView and GMoleculeView levels, with a #RealsiticVirtualHarbin Hot Springs for soaking meditations from home, and for scientific academic research coded for Digital Masks, such as Meta's(formerly Oculus) Quest headsets?
but an agent is one that go forth and do something ... using the word "Genie"
agentic ai system ideally doesn't have a human in the loop
and for high stakes transactions legally, that's a big matter ..
agentic ai could help with billable hours ...
PPPPS
asked Gemini AI also re creativity in students creating AI agents -
For law students, - How best for students (say first year law students) to experiment and create agentic artificial intelligence AIs, AI agents, and that might even help the company or university they're working for find new areas to develop legally, and to enhance students' thinking creativity? ... How could novices best create with or hack AI Agents ... and with a #RealisticVirtualEarthForLaw () - and to develop these AI Agents for autonomy say in a Realistic Virtual Earth?
For art or law students, - How best for students (say first year law students) to experiment and create agentic artificial intelligence AIs - agentic ai programs, is this the correct term- and that might even help the company or university they're working for, and to enhance students' thinking creativity? ... How could novices best create with or hack AI Agents ... and with a #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForSTEM #ForLaw #ForAnthropology, a #RealisticVirtualHarbin Hot Springs - and with TwitterX and Linkedin - and to post these AI Agents to these social media sites, for example, or even to start a company, say in a Realistic Virtual Earth For STEM?
Agentic AI represents a fundamental shift from reactive systems, like standard chatbots, to proactive, autonomous systems capable of reasoning, planning, and executing multi-step tasks to achieve high-level goals. Gartner predicts that by 2028, 15% of daily work decisions will be made autonomously by these systems.
Core Characteristics
Unlike traditional AI that requires constant prompting, agentic systems possess:
Autonomy: They can act independently with minimal human oversight to complete complex workflows.
Reasoning & Planning: They use Large Language Models (LLMs) as a "brain" to break down complex goals into manageable sub-tasks.
Tool Use: They can interact with external systems like APIs, databases, and software to execute real-world actions.
Learning & Adaptation: Through reflection and feedback loops (often called a "data flywheel"), they refine their strategies over time based on successes and failures.
Emerging Real-World Applications (2025–2026)
Enterprise Operations: Major platforms like Salesforce Agentforce and ServiceNow now use agents for autonomous customer service, HR onboarding, and IT incident resolution.
Software Development: Tools like AWS Kiro act as digital teammates that can write, test, and debug code asynchronously.
Finance & Commerce: Partnerships like Affirm and Stripe are enabling agents to handle secure transactions and "pay-over-time" options for shoppers.
Cybersecurity: Systems like Exabeam Nova autonomously hunt for threats, correlate data across systems, and initiate rollback procedures.
Critical Risks & Challenges
Security Vulnerabilities: Recent 2026 research has identified flaws in agentic AI browsers (like Perplexity’s Comet) where prompt injections could force an agent to exfiltrate local files.
Accountability Gap: Determining who is liable—the developer or the user—when an autonomous agent makes a mistake remains a significant legal and ethical hurdle.
Systemic Risk: Financial regulators have warned that autonomous agents could become a channel for systemic risk in finance if they initiate large-scale market actions without sufficient human oversight.
Are you looking to implement an agentic framework for a specific business use case, or do you want to explore the technical design patterns like reflection and multi-agent orchestration?
