Sarai Reader 04: Crisis/Media
We are happy to announce the print and web publication of Sarai Reader 04:
Crisis/Media.
Crisis/Media, the fourth publication in the Sarai Reader series, examines issues of global crises — (war, civil conflict, terrorism and state terror, the deep instabilities of everyday life, technologies of surveillance and political life, threats to the freedom of expression) — and critically analyses the representation of these crises in the media. Are the crises in the media also instances of crises of the media? Have current forms of media practice lost the ability to articulate questions of conflict and contention, other than in terms of crises? Can media practitioners evolve
forms of practice that are not beholden to the idea of Crisis?
The Sarai brings together several distinguished critical voices, as well as new, emerging writers from all over the world (and especially from South Asia) to attend to ideas, situations, contexts and dillemmas related to crises and the media.Authors include:
Arundhati Roy, Ranjit Hoskote, Taslima Nasrin, Geert Lovink, Soenke Zehle, Nandita Haksar, Toby Miller, Martin Shaw, Ravi Vasudevan, Shahid Amin, Ivo Skoric, Nancy Adajania, Raqs Media Collective, Nitin Govil, Ranjani Mazumdar, Shohini Ghosh and others.
For the complete table of contents, and the text of the introduction, see below. The complete text of Crisis/Media, like the entire contents of previous readers, is available for free browsing and download as pdf files at Sarai Reader 4
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TABLE OF CONTENTS OF SARAI READER 04: CRISIS/MEDIA
Introduction
APPROACHING CRISIS
Bearing Inconvenient Witness: Notes in Pro/Confessional Mode — Ranjit Hoskote
Peace is War: The Collateral Damage of Breaking News — Arundhati Roy
Financialization, Emotionalization and Other Ugly Concepts — Toby Miller
Interventionist Media in Times of Crisis — Soenke Zehle
Western Wars and Peace Activism: Social Movements in Global Mass-Mediated Politics — Martin Shaw
IMAGE DISTURBANCE
Let us Become Children! Training, Simulations and Kids — Kristian Lukic
What is to be Done? — Bhrigupati Singh
Disreputable and Illegal Publics: Cinematic Allegories in Times of Crisis — Ravi Vasudevan
Protesting Capitalist Globalization on Video — Oliver Ressler
Barcelona Pictures — Sasja Barentsen
From One Crisis to the Next: The Fate of Political Art in India — Nancy Adajania
On Representing the Musalman — Shahid Amin
Machines Made to Measure: On the Technologies of Identity and the Manufacture of Difference — Raqs Media Collective
CRISIS MEDIA — CASE STUDIES
Media Representations of the Kargil War and the Gujarat Riots — Subarno Chatterji
Small Town News — Taran N. Khan
'Out of the Box': Telelvisual Representations of North East India —Daisy Hasan
Lost in Transit: Narratives and Myths of The Crash of Egypt Air Flight 990 in Egyptian and American Newspapers — Mahmoud Eid
Of Nasty Pictures and 'Nice Guys': The Surreality of Online Hindutva — Christiane Brosius
Media Looking Beyond Crisis? The Urdu/Pakistani Press in New York after 9/11 — Rehan Ansari
Tried by The Media: The S A R Geelani Trial — Nandita Haksar
TRUTH/TESTIMONY
'I Saw it on CNN so it Must be True...Wrong !' — Craig Etcheson
Refugee Camps — Amy West
Readers vs. Viewers — Ivo Skoric
Cracks in the Urban Frame: The Visual Politics of 9/11 — Ranjani Mazumdar
Truth Telling, Gujarat and the Law — Arvind Narrain
CAUTION: REPORTERS AT WORK
Massacres and the Media: A Field Reporter Looks Back on Gujarat 2002 — Darshan Desai
The Everyday Life of a Srinagar Correspondent: Reporting from Kashmir — Muzamil Jaleel
A Reporter in Prison — Iftikhar Gilani
Covering Kashmir: The Datelines of Despair — Basharat Peer
Mumbai(Dongri)-Gujarat-Mumbai-Kashmir: Pages from my Diary — Zainab Bawa
WAR CORRESPONDENCES: FIRST PERSON PLURAL
Thoughts on Afghanistan in Five Parts — Meena Nanji
On Experiencing Afghanistan — Daphne Meijer
The Afghan eXplorer - The Computing Culture Group — MIT Media Lab
Waiting: Entries from a Filmmaker's Diary in and around Tel Aviv - Anna Faroqhi
Last Email from the Gaza Strip — Rachel Corrie
Guerrila News Network's Digital Documentaries: Interview with Stephen Marshall — Geert Lovink
Synchronicities: Baghdad/Delhi — Anand Vivek Taneja
Portrait of a Day in Baghdad — Paul Chan
Diary of a News Cameraman: Baghdad, July 2003 — Shakeb Ahmed
Rescued Pages of War-Sense — Tarun Bhartiya
DEEP INSTABILITIES
Politics in the Picture: Witnessing Environmental Crises in the Media — Sanjay Kak
The Toxic Times of India: The Plastic Monster and a State of Emergency — Ravi Agarwal
Remembering SARS in Beijing: The Nationalist Appropriation of an Epidemic — Sanjay Sharma
Evictions - Projections: Watching Dharmendra in Suburban Lagos — Hansa Thapliyal
Mediated Guilt: The Illusion of Participation in Delhi's Social Welfare Advertisements — Omar Kutty
Journey through a Disaster: A Filmmaker's Account of the Gujarat Earthquake, 2001 — Batul Mukhtiar
CYBERMOHALLA STREET LOGS
LOG OO1, 20th October, 2003 — Dakshinpuri Cybermohalla Media Lab
INFORMATION = POLITICS
P2P: Power to the People — Janko Röttgers
War in the Age of Pirate Reproduction — Nitin Govil
Floss and the 'Crisis': Foreigner in a Free Land? — Martin Hardie
Introducing AIDC as a Tool for Data Surveillance
— Beatriz Da Costa + Jamieson Schulte + Brooke Singer
Anagrams of Orderly Discorder (For the New Global Order) — Geoff Cox, Joasia Krysa + Adrian Ward
The Tools and Tactics of A Festival: Looking Back at N5M4 — David Garcia
The Revenge of Low-tech: Autolabs, Telecentros and Tactical Media in São Paulo — Ricardo Rosas
CONTESTING CENSORSHIP
Reasonable Restrictions and Unreasonable Speech — Lawrence Liang
'The Whole Constitution Goes for Six': Legislative Privileges and the Media — Sudhir Krishnaswamy
Censorship Myths and Imagined Harms — Shohini Ghosh
Homeless Everywhere: Writing in Exile -—Taslima Nasreen
ALT/OPTION
Manifesto Against Labour — Gruppe Krisis
Digital Declaration — Infossil Corrective
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
