Sarai Reader 06: Turbulence
<p>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 prepared for rain. Our cities are sites of flood and fire. We live between tremors, power cuts and voltage surges. Agitations emerge and abate on our streets and on the airwaves, as if by accident. Books are burned, blogs are blocked, bourses dance mad tarantulas. We fly with seat belts fastened. Predictions are pronounced and dissembled in seconds. Bets are placed and lost, wagers made and found wanting. Insurance companies invoke acts of God. The more things change, the more they change…</p>
Editors: Monica Narula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Ravi Sundaram, Awadhendra Sharan, Jeebesh Bagchi, Geert Lovink
Authors: R. Krishna, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Renée Green, Molly Nesbit, Michael Taussig, Cédric Vincent, Felix Stalder, Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay, Pradeep Saha, David Mather, Gyan Prakash, Legier Biederman, R.V. Ramani, Kavita Pai, Peter Griffin, Geert Lovink, Jeremy Hight, Nishant Shah, Deb Kamal Ganguly, Andreas Broeckmann, Trebor Scholz, Siva Arumugam, Raoul Victor, Franco La Cecla, Stefano Savona, Piero Zanini, Warren Neidich, Vlado Stjepic, Parismita Singh, Mahmood Farooqui, Rahaab Allana, Vijayalakshmi Balakrishnan, Debjani Sengupta, Naeem Mohaiemen, Philip Bounds, Nataša Petrešin, Marcos Lutyens, Sergio De La Torre, Guido Cimadomo, Pilar Martínez Ponce, Dane Mitchell, Nasrin Tabatabai, Babak Afrassiabi, Kianoosh Vahabi, Nancy Adajania, Linda Carroli, Tushar Dhara, Gautam Bhan, Ashim Purkayastha, Tarun Bhartiya, Robin S. Ngangom, Sampurna Chattarji, Sureyyya Evren, Walid Raad, Simran Chadha, Bismillah Gilani, Sadan Jha, Emeka Okereke, David Harris, Yushi Uehara, Karen Coelho, S. Ananth, Cybermohalla Practitioners, Florian Schneider, Frank Rieger
Part of: Sarai Reader