[spectre] Fwd: [Reader-list] Sarai Reader 03 - Shaping Technologies

[Eric Kluitenberg]

dear spectrites!

I thought this one (the new Sarai Reader) is relevant and/or 
interesting for you...
check thge on-line version:  http://www.sarai.net/journal/reader3.html

best,
eric

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From: Monica Narula <monica at sarai.net>
Subject: [Reader-list] Sarai Reader 03 - Shaping Technologies
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 19:13:38 +0530

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 at 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 at sarai.net
or write to
Publications
Sarai, CSDS
29 Rajpur Road
Delhi 110 054
India
-- 
Monica Narula
Sarai:The New Media Initiative
29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054
www.sarai.net
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