Author
Namita A. Malhotra
8 items.
28 Feb 2015
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Figures of Learning: The PornographerAs part of its Making Methods for Digital Humanities project, CIS-RAW organized two consultations on new figures of learning in the digital context. For a proposed journal issue on the theme of 'bodies of knowledge' which draws upon these …
23 Mar 2012
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Interface IntimaciesSherry Turkle, in her book Alone Together, talked about how the digital technologies, replacing interface time with face-time, are slowly alienating us from our social networks. There has been an increasing amount of anxiety around how …
28 Sep 2011
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Porn: Law, Video, TechnologyNamita Malhotra’s monograph on Pornography and Pleasure is possibly the first Indian reflection and review of its kind. It draws aside the purdah that pornography has become – the forbidden object as well as the thing that prevents you from …
10 Dec 2009
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Privacy, pornography, sexuality (a video)The video is an attempt to use the material collected for purposes of provoking a discussion around privacy, pornography, sexuality and technology. It focuses largely on an Indian context, which most viewers would be familiar with. The …
12 Sep 2009
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Negative of pornThe 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 …
11 May 2009
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Pleasure and Pornography: Impassioned ObjectsIn 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 …
2 Apr 2009
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Pleasure and Pornography: Pornography and the Blindfolded Gaze of the LawIn 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 …
3 Feb 2009
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Pleasure and Pornography: Initial Encounters with the UnknownThis 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 …