Fwd: Invitation to the Sociology Seminar, South Asian University, 12 November, 2.30pm
Ankur Datta
South Asian University
Faculty of Social Sciences
Sociology Seminar Series
Monsoon Semester
2014-15
Entrapment, Transparency and
Technologies of Truth
By Prof. Ravi Sundaram
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
New Delhi
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 the controversial Aadhaar 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 a theory of the contemporary.
Prof. Ravi Sundaram’s work rests at the intersection of the post-colonial city and contemporary media experiences. He was one of the initiators of the Sarai programme which he co-directs. He has co-edited the critically acclaimed Sarai Reader series: The Public Domain (2001), The Cities of Everyday Life (2002), Shaping Technologies (2003), Crisis Media (2004), and Turbulence (2006). His other publications include Pirate Modernity: Media Urbanism in Delhi (2009). Two of his other volumes are No Limits: Media Studies from India (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Delhi’s Twentieth Century (forthcoming OUP).
Date: 12 November 2014, Wednesday
Time: 02.30 PM
FSI HALL, South Asian University,
Akbar Bhawan, Chanakyapuri,
New Delhi 110021
ALL ARE CORDIALLY INVITED
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