Sarai Reader 05: Bare Acts
<p>“This year, the Reader looks at ‘Acts’ – at instruments of legislation, at things within and outside the law, and at ‘acts’ – as different ways of ‘doing’ things in society and culture. Several essays echo and complement themes that have emerged in earlier readers. Piracy, borders, surveillance, claims to authority and entitlement, the language of expertise, the legal regulation of sexual behaviour and trespasses of various kinds have featured prominently in previous Readers. This collection foregrounds these issues in a way we hope can make a series of coherent but autonomous and interrelated arguments…”</p>
Editors: Monica Narula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Jeebesh Bagchi, Geert Lovink, Lawrence Liang
Authors: Lawrence Liang, Clifton D’Rozario, Francesca da Rimini, Colette Mazabrard, Gunalan Nadarajan, Alexander Karschnia, Awadhendra Sharan, Sharon Daniel, Daniel van der Velden, Tina Clausmeyer, Vinca Kruk, Adriaan Mellegers, Vishwajyoti Ghosh, Tripta Wahi, Kai Friese, Ursula Biemann, Martínez Ponce, Chitra Ganesh, Mariam Ghani, Raqs Media Collective, Naveeda Khan, Shujen Wang, Menso Heus, Yuwei Lin, David Beer, Brian Holmes, Armin Medosch, Solomon Benjamin, Satyajit Pande, Anand Vivek Taneja, Zainab Bawa, Iram Ghufran, I. Helen Jilavu, Cybermohalla Labs @ LNJP-DP-NM, Iram Ghufran, Taha Mehmood, Geert Lovink, Ninad Pandit, Ateya Khorakiwala, Chander Nigam, Preeti Sampat, Nikhil Dey, Amy R. West, Blair Rutherford, Ravi Agarwal, Jan Ritsema, Alice Albinia, Ulka S. Anjaria, Aarti Sethi, Hikari Hori, Siddharth Narrain, Somnath Batabyal, A. Bimol Akoijam, Matteo Pasquinelli, Bikram Jeet Batra, Linda F. Beekman, Irina Aristarkhova, Isaac Souweine, Louise Kolff, Smriti Vohra, Fredrik Svensk, Kristoffer Gansing, Jayson Claude, Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, Kolkata, Sophea Lerner
Part of: Sarai Reader