a book announcement that i think will be interesting to some of you.
Sarai Reader 03 : Shaping Technologies Paperback, 392 pages, Rs. 295, US $ 15, Euro 15 ISBN 81-901429-3-3
Sarai, CSDS and the Waag Society for Old and New Media announce the publication of Sarai Reader 03 : Shaping Technologies. The book will be released on the 14th of March 2003 at Sarai, CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi.
"Shaping Technologies " sets out to ratchet our engagement with the contemporary moment a notch higher, in directions that are sober, exhilarating and discomfiting all at once. The book brings to the fore a series of situations and predicaments that mark the encounter between people and machines, between nature and culture, and between knowledge and power.
The issues covered span a wide range - from the cognitive and ethical dilemmas that beset the engineer, to the legal and cultural implications of copying in a digital realm, from software as art to the history of science fiction, from wireless manifestoes to the domestication of photography, from kitchen utensils to airplanes, from mobile phones to kerosene lamps, from body nets to biotech, from reproductive technologies to technologies of reproduction, from computers to radios and from coal mines to call centres.
A cutting edge collection of original writing and images by theorists, critics, photographers, philosophers, engineers, activists, artists, designers media practitioners and programmers from many parts of the world.
Editorial Collective : Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula, Ravi Sundaram, Ravi Vasudevan and Shuddhabrata Sengupta (Sarai) Geert Lovink and Marleen Stikker (Waag Society)
Contributors include : Arun Mehta, Biella Coleman, Ana Viseu, Raqs Media Collective, Rabindranath Tagore, Sabina Gadihoke, Steve Dietz, Pauline van Mourik Broekman, Rana Dasgupta, Debjani Sengupta, Siddhartha Ghosh, McKenzie Wark, Andrew Feenberg, Eugene Thacker, Joanne Richardson, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, subRosa, Rupsa Mallik & Veena Das Interviews with : Arash Zeini, Janos Sugar, Hildegard Westerkamp Photo Essays by : Shahid Datawala, Monica Narula, Srinivas Kuruganti
Published by Sarai/CSDS, Delhi and the Waag Society/for Old and New Media, Amsterdam for enquiries contact publications@sarai.net
An online edition of the book is available at http://www.sarai.net/journal/reader3.html
paperback, 392 pages, Rs. 295, US $ 15, Euro 15 ISBN 81-901429-3-3
For enquiries, contact: publications@sarai.net or write to Publications Sarai, CSDS 29 Rajpur Road Delhi 110 054 India