About this site

Project Metanoia is an independent blog launched in May 2025 by Vishal Peshwani. This site is an independent space for philosophical reflection and cultural critique, committed to exploring ideas using psychoanalytical hermeneutics and decolonial thought. It is conceived not as an academic annex nor a partisan pulpit, but as an open agora—freely accessible to all—where thought is not shackled by institutional gatekeeping and ideological conformity.

At the heart of this blog lies a conviction: that beneath the dominant narratives of modernity lie repressed epistemologies, occluded subjectivities, and subjugated ways of knowing. This blog tries to listen to those silences, to read the margins, and to interpret both texts and life-worlds through lenses often sidelined. Here psychoanalysis is viewed not as a clinical doctrine but as a mode of interpretation, and decoloniality is viewed not as a slogan but as a method of inquiry.

You will find here my views on certain “bestselling” books and authors, essays, fragments, and reflections—each an attempt to dwell with the complexity of meaning-making in a world shaped by the colonial unconscious, neoliberal reason, and inherited metaphysics. At times speculative, at times rigorously analytic, the writings seek to engage critically with traditions, systems of thought, and everyday practices, all while remaining attentive to the plural, the wounded, and the unresolved.

This site is wholly independent, without institutional affiliation or commercial interest. It is sustained solely by the desire to think otherwise—and to do so publicly, accessibly, and without gatekeeping.

If philosophy is, as Deleuze once said, the creation of concepts, and psychoanalysis a listening to what resists being said, then perhaps this blog aspires to be a meeting place where the unsayable is gestured at, and the unthought is named.