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Pleasure and Pornography: Pornography and the Blindfolded Gaze of the Law
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Namita A. Malhotra
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Apr 02, 2009
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Aug 02, 2011 08:37 AM
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filed under:
histories of internet in India,
Obscenity,
internet and society,
Art,
cybercultures,
women and internet,
YouTube,
Cybercultures,
cyberspaces,
Digital subjectivities,
History
In the legal discourse, pornography as a category is absent, except as an aggravated form of obscenity. Does this missing descriptive category assist in the rampant circulation of pornography, either online or offline? Rather than ask that question, Namita Malhotra, in this second post documenting her CIS-RAW project, explores certain judgments that indeed deal with pornographic texts and uncovers the squeamishness that ensures that pornography as an object keeps disappearing before the law.
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Porn: Law, Video & Technology
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Pleasure and Pornography: Impassioned Objects
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by
Namita A. Malhotra
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published
May 11, 2009
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last modified
Aug 02, 2011 08:35 AM
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filed under:
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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The 'Dark Fibre' Files: Interview with Jamie King and Peter Mann
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by
Siddharth Chadha
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published
Mar 27, 2009
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last modified
Aug 04, 2011 04:41 AM
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filed under:
histories of internet in India,
internet and society,
Digital Access,
Intellectual Property Rights,
YouTube,
art and intervention,
Piracy,
Open Access,
innovation,
digital artists
Film-makers Jamie King (producer/director of the 'Steal This Film' series) and Peter Mann, in conversation with Siddharth Chadha, on 'Dark Fibre', their latest production, being filmed in Bangalore
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The Future of the Moving Image
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Nishant Shah
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Nov 10, 2008
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last modified
Nov 11, 2008 09:06 AM
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internet and society,
Piracy,
Intellectual Property Rights,
YouTube,
internet art,
Cybercultures,
New Pedagogies
All dissimilar technologies are the same in their own way, but all similar technologies are uniquely different. This was probably at the core of the zeitgeist at the international seminar on “The Future of Celluloid” hosted by the Media Lab at the Jadavpur University, Kolkata, at which Nishant Shah, Director - Research CIS, presented a research paper. Practitioners, film makers, artists, theoreticians and academics, blurring the boundaries of both their roles and their disciplines and areas of interest, came together to move beyond convergence theories – to explore the continuities, conflations, contestations and confusions that Internet Technologies have led to for earlier technologies, but specifically for the technology of the moving image.
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Government gives free publicity worth 40k to Twitter and Facebook
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by
Akriti Bopanna
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published
Apr 10, 2018
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last modified
Apr 27, 2018 09:52 AM
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filed under:
Google,
Instagram,
Privacy,
Twitter,
YouTube,
Internet Governance,
Featured,
Google Plus,
Facebook,
Homepage
We conducted a 2 week survey of newspapers for links between government advertisement to social media giants. As citizens, we should be worried about the close nexus between the Indian government and digital behemoths such as Facebook, Google and Twitter. It has become apparent to us after a 2 week print media analysis that our Government has been providing free publicity worth Rs 40,000 to these entities. There are multiple issues with this as this article attempts at pointing out.
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Online Pre-Censorship is Harmful and Impractical
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Pranesh Prakash
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Dec 07, 2011
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last modified
Dec 12, 2011 05:00 PM
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filed under:
IT Act,
Obscenity,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
YouTube,
Social media,
Internet Governance,
Featured,
Intermediary Liability,
Censorship,
Social Networking
The Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Mr. Kapil Sibal wants Internet intermediaries to pre-censor content uploaded by their users. Pranesh Prakash takes issue with this and explains why this is a problem, even if the government's heart is in the right place. Further, he points out that now is the time to take action on the draconian IT Rules which are before the Parliament.
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