Soft Futurism | Rithika Pandey | Substack

This is Soft Futurism

Can you remember a moment when you leaned into softness wholeheartedly? At what point did you realise that ‘this too is a possibility’?

Apr 16, 2024 • Rithika Pandey

Shelling pomegranates in the golden hour

On the quiet observation of things.

Jan 13 • Rithika Pandey

Visual dispatch #2

Aesthetic treats for the new year

Jan 9 • Rithika Pandey

Erotics is bodily intelligence, intelligence is bodily erotics.

Meditations on an ecology of love :)

Dec 15, 2025 • Rithika Pandey

Things that widen my capacity for devotion

Following the carefully laid trail of breadcrumbs.

Dec 1, 2025 • Rithika Pandey

Recent posts

Meditations for the (post)-Anthropocene

I think we’re entering an uncanny moment of what could be our evolutionary breakthrough (or breakdown).

Nov 17, 2025 • Rithika Pandey

Visual dispatch

Aesthetic treats for November

Nov 5, 2025 • Rithika Pandey

Becoming soil again

Thoughts on emotional decomposition.

Oct 30, 2025 • Rithika Pandey

Gathering seeds #7

10 things on my mind this month

Oct 26, 2025 • Rithika Pandey

Aesthetic Studies #1:Soft Science-fiction

On rethinking the aesthetics of the future

Sep 26, 2025 • Rithika Pandey

Field notes from Italy

10 insights while in transit.

Sep 12, 2025 • Rithika Pandey

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