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Blog Entry Pleasure and Pornography: Pornography and the Blindfolded Gaze of the Law
by Namita A. Malhotra published Apr 02, 2009 last modified Aug 02, 2011 08:37 AM — filed under: , , , , , , , , , ,
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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The (Postcolonial) Marxist Shift in Response to Technology
by Asha Achuthan published Mar 27, 2009 last modified Aug 03, 2011 09:47 AM — filed under: , , ,
In her previous post, Asha Achuthan discussed, through the Gandhi-Tagore debates, the responses to science and technology that did not follow the dominant Marxist-nationalist positions. Later Marxist-postcolonial approaches to science and responses to technology were conflated in anti-technology arguments, particularly in development. In this post, the fifth in a series on her project, she will briefly trace the 1980s shift in Marxist thinking in India as a way of approaching the shift in the science and technology question. This exercise will reveal the ambivalence in Marxist practice toward continuing associations between the ‘rational-scientific’ on the one hand and the ‘revolutionary’ on the other.
Located in RAW / / Blogs / Re:Wiring Bodies
Blog Entry The 'Dark Fibre' Files: Interview with Jamie King and Peter Mann
by Siddharth Chadha published Mar 27, 2009 last modified Aug 04, 2011 04:41 AM — filed under: , , , , , , , , ,
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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Rewiring Bodies: Technology and the Nationalist Moment [2]
by Asha Achuthan published Feb 25, 2009 last modified Aug 03, 2011 09:47 AM — filed under: , , ,
This is the third in a series of posts on Asha Achuthan's Rewiring Bodies project. In this post, Asha looks at the Tagore-Gandhi debates on technology to throw some light on the question of whether there was a nationalist alternative to the technology offered by the West.
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Rewiring Bodies: Technology and the Nationalist Moment [1]
by Asha Achuthan published Feb 17, 2009 last modified Aug 03, 2011 09:47 AM — filed under: , , ,
This is the second post in a series by Asha Achuthan on her project, Rewiring Bodies. In this blog entry, Asha looks at the trajectory of responses to technology in India to understand the genesis of the assumption that the subjects of technology are separate from the tool, machine, or instrument.
Located in RAW / / Blogs / Re:Wiring Bodies
Blog Entry Pleasure and Pornography: Initial Encounters with the Unknown
by Namita A. Malhotra published Feb 03, 2009 last modified Aug 02, 2011 08:37 AM — filed under: , , , , , , ,
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.
Located in RAW / / Blogs / Porn: Law, Video & Technology
Justice and Difference - the first talk in 'the monster album of feminist stories'
by Asha Achuthan published Dec 04, 2008 last modified Aug 03, 2011 09:43 AM — filed under: , ,
CIS and 'the monster album of feminist stories', in relation to the Rewiring Bodies project by Asha Achuthan, hosted the first of a series of talks on cognizing feminism at the CIS premises on Cunningham Road on 14th November, 2008.
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of doctors and maps - Snippet two
by Asha Achuthan published Nov 05, 2008 last modified Aug 03, 2011 09:45 AM — filed under: , , ,
This may seem like a careless swipe at the volumes of critique of technology. And yet ... I need to know ...
Located in RAW / / Blogs / Re:Wiring Bodies
of doctors and maps - Snippet one
by Asha Achuthan published Nov 05, 2008 last modified Aug 03, 2011 09:44 AM — filed under: , , ,
The clinic is not what it was. It is highly technologized, flooded with information systems. But what of the relationships it traditionally supported, between patient and doctor?
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Unpacking technology - beginnings
by Asha Achuthan published Oct 20, 2008 last modified Oct 31, 2008 09:47 AM — filed under: ,
This is a work-in-progress that seeks to inaugurate a field of critical technology studies with the women-technology relationship as a unique entry point of investigation.
Located in RAW / / Blogs / Re:Wiring Bodies