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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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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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Blogs
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Porn: Law, Video & Technology
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The Curious Incident of the People at the Mall
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Nishant Shah
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last modified
Dec 14, 2008 12:13 PM
The first flash mob in India, in 2003, though short-lived and quickly declared illegal, brought to fore the idea that technology is constructing new sites of defining public participation and citizenship rights, forcing the State to recognise them as political collectives. As India emerges as an ICT enabled emerging economy, new questions of citizenship, participatory politics, social networking, citizenship, and governance are being posed. In the telling of the story of the flash-mob, doing a historical review of technology and access, and doing a symptomatic reading of the subsequent events that followed the ban, this paper evaluates the different ways in which the techno-narratives of an ‘India Shining’ campaign of prosperity and economic growth, are accompanied by various spaces of political contestation, mobilisation and engagement that determine the new public spheres of exclusion, marked by the aesthetics of cyberspatial matrices and technology enabled conditions of governance.
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Nishant Shah
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Report on Open Standards for GISW2008
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Pranesh Prakash
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Dec 08, 2008
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last modified
Jan 05, 2009 06:52 AM
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filed under:
Open Standards,
FLOSS
In this report, Sunil Abraham lays out the importance and the policy implications of Open Standards.
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Open Standards
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Report on Open Standards for GISW 2008
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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Dec 07, 2008
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last modified
Aug 23, 2011 02:57 AM
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Publications
A report on Open Standards prepared by Sunil Abraham, for the Global Information Society Watch 2008. As on their site, GISWatch focuses on monitoring progress made towards implementing the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) action agenda and other international and national commitments related to information and communications. It also provides analytical overviews of institutions involved in implementation.
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CIS Publications
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Sunil Abraham
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Once Upon a Flash
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by
Nishant Shah
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Nov 03, 2008 08:25 PM
The essay was published as a part of Sarai Annual Reader titled 'Turbulence' and explores the aesthetics, politics and form of the flashmobs and their manifestation in India. It looks at the potentials of the flashmob to produce turbulent physical spaces and identities and their encounter with legalities. The essay is also available at http://www.sarai.net/journal/06_pdf/03/04_nishant_shah.pdf
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Nishant Shah
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Material Cyborgs; Asserted Boundaries
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by
Nishant Shah
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last modified
Nov 03, 2008 08:14 PM
The essay was published in the European Journal of English Studies in a special issue on Multimedia Narratives. Emerging as an epistemological category with the rise of the Information and Communication Technologies, the cyborg leads to a complex set of negotiations about the production of a cyborg identity. This paper looks at the cyborg as a translator, to see the new mechanics of translation that come into play as the cyborg straddles multiple systems of making meaning and producing itself. Analysing the new social networking systems that have emerged in the last few years, the paper posits the cyborg as not only an author of translated texts but also as produced in the processes of translation. Focusing on one particular instance of the production of a cyborg identity, exploring the various players involved in the process of cyborgification and the material consequences of imagining the cyborg, the paper seeks to analyse the new incomprehensibility or illegalities that the cyborg, in its role as a translator, gets produced within.
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Nishant Shah
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Design in urban democracy: A question of survival
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by
admin
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last modified
Oct 11, 2008 09:49 AM
Urban dynamics dissected by John Thackara and Sunil Abraham; questions and answers on the anatomy of cities. An article from the August issue of Cluster Magazine.
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Sunil Abraham
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Piracy
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by
Velankanni Royson
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published
Sep 18, 2008
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last modified
Jan 26, 2009 10:23 AM
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Substantive Areas
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New Pedagogies
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Intellectual Property Rights and Trade
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by
Velankanni Royson
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published
Sep 18, 2008
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last modified
Sep 21, 2008 02:57 PM
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Public Accountability
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Surveillance
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by
Velankanni Royson
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Sep 18, 2008
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last modified
Sep 21, 2008 02:57 PM
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Digital Pluralism
