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Negative of porn
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Namita A. Malhotra
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published
Sep 12, 2009
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last modified
Aug 02, 2011 08:35 AM
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Featured,
Art,
Censorship
The post deals with what has been written about Savita Bhabhi in an attempt to make sense of her peccadiloes and with the seeming futility of Porn studies located in America to our different reality. I take the liberty of exploring my own experiential account of pornography since I feel that in that account (mine and others) when done seriously, certain aspects of pornography emerge that address questions that are about cinema, images, sex, philosophy and how desire works. The title is mischeviously inspired from Dr. Pek Van Andel's recent video of MRI images of people having sex.
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Porn: Law, Video & Technology
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Deconstructing ‘Internet addiction’
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by
Radha Rao
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published
Aug 31, 2009
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last modified
Apr 02, 2011 03:09 PM
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filed under:
Internet Governance
An article by Sruthi Krishnan and Shyam Ranganathan in The Hindu on August 30th,'09
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News & Media
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Fallacies, Lies, and Video Pirates
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Aug 24, 2009
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last modified
Aug 04, 2011 04:43 AM
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filed under:
Featured,
Intellectual Property Rights
At a recent conference on counterfeiting and piracy, industry representatives variously pushed for stiffer laws for IP violation, more stringent enforcement of existing IP laws, and championed IP as the most important thing for businesses today. This blog post tries to show how their arguments are flawed.
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Civil Society Letter Against TRIPS-Plus IP Enforcement
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Aug 18, 2009
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last modified
Sep 22, 2011 12:48 PM
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filed under:
Access to Medicine,
Consumer Rights,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Access to Knowledge
This open letter was sent to the president of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and high-level government officials on the eve of the Third International Conference on Counterfeiting & Piracy organized by CII. This conference aims to strengthen the enforcement of intellectual property rights and thus creating an imbalance in the protection that intellectual property offers to both those who own it as well as those who don't.
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Blogs
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Letter from Civil Society Organizations to CII
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Aug 18, 2009
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last modified
Apr 02, 2011 03:15 PM
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Intellectual Property Rights
A total of 29 groups and individuals expressed their concern about the drive by CII to introduce TRIPS-plus enforcement standards in India.
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Presentation at TIFR: 'Scholarly Communication in the Age of the Commons'
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by
Sanchia de Souza
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Jul 14, 2009
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last modified
Apr 02, 2011 03:42 PM
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Openness
CIS Distinguished Fellow Dr. Subbiah Arunachalam will give a talk titled 'Scholarly Communication in the Age of the Commons' at TIFR, Mumbai, on Friday, 24 July 2009.
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CPOV: Critical Point of View
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Jul 10, 2009
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last modified
Jul 13, 2009 09:07 AM
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filed under:
Wikipedia,
art and intervention,
cybercultures,
digital subjectives,
Vandalism,
digital art,
digital pluralism
The Centre for Internet and Society (Bangalore, India) and the Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam, Netherlands) seek to bring together ideas, experiences and scholarship about Wikipedia in a reader that charts out detailed user stories as well as empirical and analytical work to produce.. The organisations will jointly host two separate conferences aimed at building a Wikipedia Knowledge Network and charting scholarship and stories about The Wikipedia from around the world.
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Second Response to Draft National Policy on Open Standards for e-Governance
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Jul 07, 2009
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last modified
Jul 07, 2009 04:49 PM
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Public Accountability,
Software Patents
Another draft (labelled "version 2", dated May 26, 2009) of the draft national policy on open standards for e-governance was made available to Fosscomm, while many software companies were speaking out against NASSCOM's position on the policy. CIS drafted a second response addressing both the allegations against NASSCOM as well as the few shortcomings we perceive in the draft policy.
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Open Standards
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Open Access
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by
admin
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published
Jul 07, 2009
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Subject To Technology
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by
Nishant Shah
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last modified
Jul 06, 2009 12:06 PM
This paper is an attempt to examine the production of illegalities with reference to cyberspace, to make a symptomatic reading of new conditions within which citizenships are enacted, in the specific context of contemporary India. Looking at one incident each, of cyber-pornography and cyber-terrorism, the paper sets out to look at the State’s imagination of the digital domain, the positing of the ‘good’ cyber citizen, and the production of new relationships between the state and the subject. This essay explores the ambiguities, the dilemmas and the questions that arise when Citizens become Subjects, not only to the State but also to the technologies of the State. The paper first appeared in the Inter Asia Cultural Studies Journal.
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Nishant Shah
