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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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YouTube,
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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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The (Postcolonial) Marxist Shift in Response to Technology
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Asha Achuthan
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Mar 27, 2009
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histories of internet in India,
rewiring bodies,
women and internet,
mathemes and medicine
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.
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The 'Dark Fibre' Files: Interview with Jamie King and Peter Mann
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Siddharth Chadha
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Mar 27, 2009
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Aug 04, 2011 04:41 AM
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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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Rewiring Bodies: Technology and the Nationalist Moment [2]
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Asha Achuthan
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Feb 25, 2009
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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]
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Asha Achuthan
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Feb 17, 2009
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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.
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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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histories of internet in India,
Obscenity,
internet and society,
women and internet,
research,
Cyborgs,
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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Justice and Difference - the first talk in 'the monster album of feminist stories'
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Asha Achuthan
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Dec 04, 2008
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Aug 03, 2011 09:43 AM
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women and internet,
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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
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Asha Achuthan
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Nov 05, 2008
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This may seem like a careless swipe at the volumes of critique of technology. And yet ... I need to know ...
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of doctors and maps - Snippet one
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Asha Achuthan
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Nov 05, 2008
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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
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Asha Achuthan
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Oct 20, 2008
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Oct 31, 2008 09:47 AM
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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.
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