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Pleasure and Pornography: Initial Encounters with the Unknown
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Namita A. Malhotra
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Feb 03, 2009
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women and internet,
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digital subjectivities,
History
This blog entry is the first in a series by Namita Malhotra on her CIS-RAW project that is about pornography, Internet, sexuality, law, new media and technology. She aims for this to be a multi media and research project/journey which is able to cite and draw on various sources including legal studies, film studies and philosophy, academic and historical work on sexuality, art, film and pornography itself.
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Pleasure and Pornography: Impassioned Objects
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Namita A. Malhotra
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May 11, 2009
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Aug 02, 2011 08:35 AM
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histories of internet in India,
Cyberspace,
internet and society,
Obscenity,
women and internet,
YouTube,
Cyborgs,
Cybercultures,
Digital subjectivities
In this post, a third in the series documenting her CIS-RAW project, Pleasure and Pornography, Namita Malhotra explores the idea of fetish as examined by Anne McClintock (i) . This detour is an exploration of the notion of fetish, its histories and meanings, and how it might relate to the story of Indian porn.
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Material Cyborgs; Asserted Boundaries: Formulating the Cyborg as a Translator
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Nishant Shah
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Nov 07, 2011
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Oct 25, 2015 05:57 AM
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Body,
Research,
Cyborgs,
Net Cultures,
Publications,
Researchers at Work
In this peer reviewed article, Nishant Shah explores the possibility of formulating the cyborg as an author or translator who is able to navigate between the different binaries of ‘meat–machine’, ‘digital–physical’, and ‘body–self’, using the abilities and the capabilities learnt in one system in an efficient and effective understanding of the other. The article was published in the European Journal of English Studies, Volume 12, Issue 2, 2008. [1]
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Re:wiring Bodies - Dr. Asha Achuthan
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Nishant Shah
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Sep 21, 2011 07:23 AM
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Cyborgs,
Cybercultures,
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First draft of the monograph on "Rewiring Bodies" by Dr. Asha Achutan; format for Microsoft Office users
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We Are All Cyborgs
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Nishant Shah
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May 24, 2012
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Apr 24, 2015 12:00 PM
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Cyborgs,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Natives
The cyborg reminds us that who we are as human beings is very closely linked with the technologies we use.
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The Body in Cyberspace
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Nishant Shah
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May 13, 2014
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Cyborgs,
Cyberspace
Perhaps one of the most interesting histories of the cyberspace has been its relationship with the body. Beginning with the meatspace-cyberspace divide that Gibson introduces, the question of our bodies’ relationship with the internet has been hugely contested. There have been some very polarized debates around this question.
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We, the Cyborgs: Challenges for the Future of being Human
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kaeru
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Aug 02, 2011
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Apr 06, 2015 03:48 PM
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Cyborgs,
Histories of Internet,
Researchers at Work,
Internet Histories
The Cyborg - a cybernetique organism which is a combination of the biological and the technological – has been at the centre of discourse around digital technologies. Especially with wearable computing and ubiquitous access to the digital world, there has been an increased concern that very ways in which we understand questions of life, human body and the presence and role of technologies in our worlds, are changing. In just the last few years, we have seen extraordinary measures – the successful production of synthetic bacteria, artificial intelligence that can be programmed to simulate human conditions like empathy and temperament, and massive mobilisation of people around the world, to fight against the injustices and inequities of their immediate environments.
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Histories of the Internet
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China's Generation Y : Youth and Technology in Shanghai
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Nishant Shah
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Sep 21, 2009
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Sep 21, 2009 02:09 PM
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Cyberspace,
Social media,
Shanghai,
Cyborgs,
Cybercultures,
Digital Natives
Within the context of internet technologies in China, Nishant Shah, drawing from his seven month research in Shanghai, looks at the first embodiment of these technologies in the urbanising city. In this post, he gives a brief overview of the public and academic discourse around youth-technology usage of China's Generation Y digital natives. He draws the techno-narratives of euphoria and despair to show how technology studies has reduced technology to tools and usage and hence even the proponents of internet technologies, often do a disservice to the technology itself. He poses questions about the politics, mechanics and aesthetics of technology and offers the premise upon which structures of reading resistance can be built. The post ends with a preview of the three stories that are to appear next in the series, to see how youth engagement and cultural production can be read as having the potentials for social transformation and political participation for the Digital Natives in China.
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The promise of invisibility - Technology and the City
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We, the Cyborgs: Challenges for the Future of being Human
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Asha Achuthan
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Mar 22, 2012
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Oct 24, 2015 01:42 PM
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Cyborgs,
Net Cultures,
Researchers at Work,
Research
The Cyborg - a cybernetique organism which is a combination of the biological and the technological – has been at the centre of discourse around digital technologies. Especially with wearable computing and ubiquitous access to the digital world, there has been an increased concern that very ways in which we understand questions of life, human body and the presence and role of technologies in our worlds, are changing. In just the last few years, we have seen extraordinary measures – the successful production of synthetic bacteria, artificial intelligence that can be programmed to simulate human conditions like empathy and temperament, and massive mobilisation of people around the world, to fight against the injustices and inequities of their immediate environments.
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We, the Cyborgs
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Collaborative Projects Programme
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by
Nishant Shah
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Sep 18, 2008
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Aug 23, 2011 03:04 AM
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Cyberspace,
Family,
Digital Natives,
Public Accountability,
Obscenity,
e-governance,
Cyborgs,
Cybercultures,
Projects,
New Pedagogies,
Communities,
Digital subjectivities,
Digital Pluralism
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