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Two social phenomena have become increasingly visible in contemporary Sri Lankan social media. The first is the proliferation of channels presenting Buddhism alongside quantum mechanics, string theory, holographic universes, multidimensional realities, consciousness studies, and various scientific concepts. These presentations often suggest that hidden correspondences exist between ancient Buddhist teachings and the deepest secrets of modern physics.  The second phenomenon is the spread of narratives surrounding curses, karma, destiny, and political retribution. Following the social upheavals of 2022, many people observed that some individuals who publicly cursed politicians later died before those they had condemned. These deaths, although often explainable through ordinary causes, became incorporated into stories of cosmic justice, karmic revenge, or supernatural return. At first glance, these appear to be unrelated developments. One belongs to the realm of pseudo-scientific info...

  What If Nirvana Is Neither Enlightenment Nor Psychosis? For more than two thousand years, Buddhism has spoken about Nirvana as the end of suffering. For more than one hundred years, psychoanalysis has spoken about desire as something that can never be fully satisfied. At first glance, the two traditions seem destined to disagree. Buddhism appears to promise liberation from craving. Lacanian psychoanalysis insists that desire is woven into the very structure of human subjectivity. One tradition seeks freedom from attachment. The other warns that every attempt to escape desire may simply become another form of desire. But what if the disagreement is not as simple as it appears? What if Nirvana is neither a mystical union nor a psychological breakdown? What if it points toward a form of subjectivity that even Lacanian psychoanalysis struggles to describe? These questions led me to an unusual experiment. Rather than comparing Buddhism and psychoanalysis at the level of doctrines and ...

Many friends in Sri Lanka who are interested in philosophy, psychoanalysis, critical theory, political thought, and contemporary culture have asked me what exactly The Return of the Dead Author contains and who might benefit from reading it. Although the book begins with artificial intelligence, it is not primarily a book about technology. It is a book about language, subjectivity, desire, authorship, and the strange structures that organize human existence. For readers from the humanities, the book offers an extensive journey through Freud, Lacan, Barthes, Foucault, Derrida, and contemporary debates surrounding AI and culture. Particular attention is given to Lacan's major conceptual frameworks, including the Mirror Stage, the Symbolic Order, the Graph of Desire, the Four Discourses, the Borromean Knot, the Sinthome, and the major Clinical Structures of Neurosis, Perversion, and Psychosis. Rather than presenting these concepts as abstract theory, the book develops them systematic...

After many months of writing, revising, researching, diagramming, and rethinking, I am pleased to announce that my new book, The Return of the Dead Author: AI Writing, Language Models, and the Fourth Humiliation of Mankind , is now available on Amazon. This book began with a question that initially appeared simple but gradually became impossible to ignore: Who—or what—has ever been the true author of language? The emergence of artificial intelligence has revived a debate that philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literary theory have been wrestling with for generations. As large language models produce essays, stories, poems, arguments, and conversations with remarkable fluency, many people assume we are confronting an entirely new problem. My suspicion was different. What if AI is not creating a new problem at all? What if it is exposing a question that has always been there, hidden beneath our assumptions about creativity, originality, consciousness, and authorship? Drawing on information ...

For centuries, humanity has endured a series of intellectual humiliations. Copernicus showed that Earth is not the center of the universe. Darwin showed that humanity is not separate from nature. Freud suggested that the conscious mind is not master of itself. Today, a new question confronts us: What happens when machines begin producing language that appears meaningful, creative, and even philosophical? I am currently completing a new book: THE RETURN OF THE DEAD AUTHOR Beyond the Fourth Humiliation of Mankind Drawing on the ideas of Claude Shannon, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, and Slavoj Žižek, this work explores how artificial intelligence challenges traditional assumptions about authorship, originality, creativity, meaning, and human subjectivity. The book argues that the debate over AI writing is not merely technological. It forces us to revisit some of the deepest questions ever asked about language itself: Who writes? Who speaks? And what remains of the author...

 I am pleased to see continuing engagement with my recent paper, The Return of the Dead Author: AI Writing, Language Models, and the Crisis of Authorship from Shannon to Lacan . The paper explores a question that has become increasingly urgent in the age of generative AI: If language models can generate convincing texts, what actually remains of the “author”? Rather than treating AI merely as a technological tool, the work examines authorship through the ideas of Claude Shannon, Roland Barthes, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, and Slavoj Žižek — arguing that the current debate around AI writing may reveal deeper structural questions about language, subjectivity, meaning, and creativity itself. I am grateful to everyone who has taken the time to read, discuss, share, and critically engage with these ideas. Research often begins as a solitary act of thought, but its real life starts when it enters the symbolic space of readers. #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Authorship #Lacan #Rol...