Topic
Histories of Internet in India
20 items.
15 Feb 2011
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Internet, Society & Space in Indian Cities - A Call for Peer ReviewPratyush Shankar's research project on "Internet, Society & Space in Indian Cities" is a part of the Researchers @ Work Programme at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. His monograph explores the trajectories of transformation …
21 Dec 2010
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Pornography & the Law - A Call for Peer ReviewNamita Malhotra's research project on "Pornography & the Law". is a part of the Researchers @ Work Programme at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. Her monograph is an attempt to unravel the relations between pornography, …
2 Dec 2010
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A Detour: The Internet and Forms of Narration: A Short NoteThere are a number of blog posts on the Internet about transgendered and transsexual people but there is a separation between print as a medium and Internet as a medium. This blog post informally discusses the authority that attaches to …
10 Sep 2010
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What's in a Name? Or Why Clicktivism May Not Be Ruining Left Activism in India, At Least For NowIn a recent piece in the Guardian titled “Clicktivism Is Ruining Leftist Activism”, Micah White expressed severe concern that, in drawing on tactics of advertising and marketing research, digital activism is undermining “the passionate, …
17 Jun 2010
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Separating the 'Symbiotic Twins'This post tries to undo the comfortable linking that has come to exist in the ‘radical’ figure of the cyber-queer. And this is so not because of a nostalgic sense of the older ways of performing queerness, or the world of the Internet is …
13 Jan 2010
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Inquilab 2.0? Reflections on Online Activism in India*Research and activism on the Internet in India remain fledgling in spite the media hype, says Anja Kovacs in her blog post that charts online activism in India as it has emerged.
29 Jul 2009
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Alternatives? From situated knowledges to standpoint epistemologyThe previous post explored, in detail, responses to science and technology in feminist and gender work in India. The idea was, more than anything else, to present an 'attitude' to technology, whether manifested in dams or obstetric …
20 Jul 2009
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Rewiring Bodies: Methodologies of Critique - Responses to technology in feminist and gender work in IndiaIn this post, part of her CIS-RAW 'Rewiring Bodies' project, Asha Achuthan records the arguments within feminism and gender work that critique the use of technology in the Indian context, and attempts to show continuities between these …
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 …
15 Apr 2009
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Postcolonial Hybridity and the ‘Terrors of Technology’ ArgumentIn the last couple of posts, Asha Achuthan has been building towards an understanding of how the anti-technology arguments in India have been posed, in the nationalist and Marxist positions. She goes on, in this sixth post documenting her …
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 …
27 Mar 2009
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The (Postcolonial) Marxist Shift in Response to TechnologyIn 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 …
27 Mar 2009
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The 'Dark Fibre' Files: Interview with Jamie King and Peter MannFilm-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
25 Feb 2009
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Rewiring Bodies: Technology and the Nationalist Moment [2]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 …
17 Feb 2009
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Rewiring Bodies: Technology and the Nationalist Moment [1]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 …
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 …
4 Dec 2008
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Justice and Difference - the first talk in 'the monster album of feminist stories'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.
5 Nov 2008
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of doctors and maps - Snippet twoThis may seem like a careless swipe at the volumes of critique of technology. And yet ... I need to know ...
5 Nov 2008
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of doctors and maps - Snippet oneThe 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?
20 Oct 2008
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Unpacking technology - beginningsThis 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.