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Sensor-Census-Censor: A Report
A sensor is a device that indicates a change of state in response to an event or stimulus. A census is an instrument by which the changes in state in a given population are registered through counting. A censor is a filter which selects and screens…
City as Studio 1
The 'City as Studio' programme provided and supported studio, work, exhibition, seminar and living space; it created a context for regular and mutual discussion and exchange online and offline, the latter during an intensive “on-site” period in…
PPHP Broadsheet #02: The Media Fabric of the Contemporary City
These research ventures constitute a series of micro histories which tell stories beyond their immediate subject. The media history of Delhi's localities is defined by mobilities of trade and of consumption, histories of displacement and…
Sarai Reader 02: The Cities of Everyday Life
The Cities of Everyday Life carries within it an argument to take the urban seriously. In the context of India, where a large part of this reader has been edited, this is significant, given the frugality of writing on city life in this part of the…
Sarai Reader 09: Projections
Projections convect questions, magnify dreams and illuminate desires. Sarai Reader 09: Projections translates this imperative to act as a transport of illumination to build an axis of central questions... More:…
Sarai Reader 01: The Public Domain
The Sarai Reader (which is the first of what we hope will be more such collections) can be seen both as a navigation log of actual voyages and a map for possible journeys into a real and imagined territory that we have provisionally called the…
Sarai Reader 04: Crisis/Media
This book brings together media professionals, activists, critics, writers and scholars in order to create a dialogue between different kinds of approaches to the question of communication itself. It examines how popular culture and cinema…
Sarai Reader 06: Turbulence
If there were ever to be a ‘weather report’ for our times, an audit of the climate in which we have grown accustomed to live, it would use the word ‘turbulence’ often. We inhabit the vortex of storms, and smell sunshine. We are always…