Event overview
A public lecture by ravi Sundaram
Monday June 9th, 5-7pm
Room: RHB 137A
Free, all Welcome
Abstract: The last decade in India has witnessed a growing number of entrapment events or media ‘stings.’ Aided by the rapid spread of technological modernity and low-cost media gadgets like mobile phones, the media sting has been carried out by print, TV and new media, transparency campaigners, NGO’s, political parties, social movements, and ordinary individuals. This mode of rendering public comes in the background of a controversial biometric ID programme by the government. As entrapment expands from a police technique to a generalised technology of transparency, it has produced great strains in existing control systems and traumatic disruptions at all levels. I use legal and media archives to reflect on the implications of these new truth strategies for contemporary theory.
Ravi Sundaram is a Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. In 2000 he founded the well-known Sarai programme along with Ravi Vasudevan and the Raqs Media Collective. He is the author of Pirate Modernity: Media Urbanism in Delhi (Routledge, London 2009), and No Limits: Media Studies from India (Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2013) Sundaram has co-edited the Sarai Reader series, The Public Domain (2001), The Cities of Everyday Life(2002), Shaping Technologies (2003), Crisis Media(2004), and Frontiers (2007). Sundaram’s essays have been translated into various languages in India, Asia, and Europe. His current research looks at the worlds of circulation after the mobile phone, information fever, ideas of transparency and secrecy, and the postcolonial media event.
Digital Culture Unit, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 9 Jun 2014 | 5:00pm - 6:45pm |
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