[spectre] Sarai Reader 04: Crisis/Media

[Inke Arns]

ABSTRACT
The Sarai Reader 04: Crisis/ Media is a wide-ranging collection of
critiques and accounts of the politics and processes of information
dissemination and access in today’s crisis-ridden and crisis-obsessed
world. From protesting censorship in India to creating an 
alternative to the embedded reporter of the current Iraq War, from 
Kashmir to New York to Rwanda, the Sarai Reader is a timely and 
relevant compilation of essays that confront the conformist trends of 

mainstream representation and challenge the reader to a deeper 
engagement with media practices.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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 Crash 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
“CNN made me do (Not Do) it” Assessing Media Influence on US
Interventions in Somalia and Rwanda - Lyn S. Graybill Left To Their
Own Devices The Impact of Informal Information and Communication
Networks on Security in the Tanzanian 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 the 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 : http://compcult.media.mit.edu/afghan_x/ - The
Computing Culture Research Group - MIT Media Lab Waiting : Entries
from a Filmmakers Diary in and around Tel Aviv - Annabel Faroqhi Last
E mail from the Gaza Strip - Rachel Corrie GNN : The Guerrila News
Network 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 Evictions - Projections : 
Watching Dharmendra in Suburban Lagos - Hansa Thapliyal Remembering 
SARS in Beijing : The Nationalist Appropriation of an Epidemic - 
Sanjay Sharma 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 Lowtech : Autolabs, Telecentros and Tactical Media in
Sao 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 Nasrin

<ALT/OPTION>
Manifesto Against Labour - Gruppe Krisis
Digital Declaration - Infossil Corrective