media, information, the contemporary

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  • Books in the Biosphere: Lecture by Isabel Hofmeyr

    Date and Time: 5 December, 2023 at 5:00pm.  Location: Seminar Room, CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi Nearest Metro Station: Civil Lines Zoom: https://bit.ly/3QJ7qbB   Isabel Hofmeyr will deliver the 24th B. N. Ganguli Memorial Lecture on ‘Books in the Biosphere: Print Culture in the Anthropocene’. It will be chaired by Ravi Sundaram. Like disciplines across…

  • Acts Of Media: Law And Media In Contemporary India

    Acts of Media seeks to consolidate a field of multidisciplinary work around media technologies that intersects with legal scholarship. This volume brings together contributions from leading academics, lawyers, researchers and policy experts about contemporary India and Sri Lanka. This volume brings together contributions from leading academics, lawyers, researchers and policy experts about contemporary India and Sri Lanka…

  • Data Relations Summer School

    Thursday 16 – Monday 20 February 2023 (excluding Sunday 19 February) ACCA is pleased to open our call out for enrolments to Data Relations Summer School. Taking the exhibition Data Relations as a point of departure, Data Relations Summer School comprises a series of experimental workshops, discussions, performances and talks at ACCA and other venues, with an emphasis on pedagogy…

  • Proximate Exposures: Media and Radiance Lecture by Rahul Mukherjee

    Lecture by Rahul Mukherjee on ‘Proximate Exposures: Media and Radiance’ [Critical Humanities event] on 5 March 2021 via Zoom. It will be chaired by Ravi Sundaram. The discussant will be Veena Hariharan. Friday, 5 March 2021, 5 pm. Zoom: http://bit.ly/2ZMHoJ0 CLICK TO JOIN THE LECTURE  ZOOM ID: 972 5408 4679             …

  • Book Discussion on ‘Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Culture from India’

    Centre for the Study of Developing Societies invites you to a Book Discussion on Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India edited by Sandeep Mertia. Panelists: Jahnavi Phalkey | Stefania Milan | Nimmi Rangaswamy Ravi Sundaram will Chair Friday, 19 February 2021, 5pm India Time The discussion will be held on Zoom Link:…

  • Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India

    We are excited to announce the publication of “Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India” with the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam. It is available for download in ePub and PDF formats, and for print-on-demand orders: https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/lives-of-data-essays-on-computational-cultures-from-india/ Lives of Data emerged from research projects and workshops at the Sarai programme, Centre for the…

  • Pirate Modernity & Hypersocial Networks: Ravi Sundaram + Tiziana Terranova: Dialogue

    Recursive Colonialism, Artificial Intelligence & Speculative Computation 2020 Episode   09 Thursday, 10 December Pirate Modernity & Hypersocial Networks 5 pm CET / 9:30 pm IST / 11 am EST Dialogue: >Ravi Sundaram (CSDS, Delhi) >Tiziana Terranova (Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale) Chair: Ezekiel Dixon-Roman [The event will be hosted on Zoom. Please click here…

  • The Mediatized Protest: Hong Kong, Cinema, Telegram, and The Lennon Wall

    The Mediatized Protest: Hong Kong, Cinema, Telegram, and The Lennon Wall Date: 17th January 2020, Friday Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Civil Lines, Delhi-110054 Time: 4.00 pm Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, 15 September 2019: Young citizens all around you gear up: face masks, gloves, goggles, helmets, knee and shin-pads, biking gear, backpacks and…

  • Cybermohalla

    Cybermohalla”, a network of dispersed labs for experimentation and exploration among young working class people in different neighbourhoods of the city, that was initiated by Ankur: Society for Alternatives in Education, Delhi and Sarai-CSDS, Delhi in the year 2001. Over the years, the collective produced a wide range of materials, practices, works and structures.  Cybermohalla…

  • Media and Information Infrastructures

    Infrastructure has come to be an increasingly important object of social science and cultural-historical research. From roads and railways to river and seaborne transport, from dams and irrigation canals to electrical circuits, from telegraphs and telephones to cable networks and satellite communication, the question of infrastructure has been key to the evolution of the modern…