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Media and Utopia: History, imagination and technology: Critical Interventions in Theory and Praxis

Editat de Arvind Rajagopal, Anupama Rao
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 iun 2019
Collective political projects have become ephemeral and are subject to radical forms of erasure through cooptation, division, redefinition or intimidation in present times. Media and Utopia responds to the resulting crisis of the social by investigating the links between mediation and political imagination. This volume addresses those utopian space
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367177096
ISBN-10: 0367177099
Pagini: 374
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge India
Seria Critical Interventions in Theory and Praxis

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

 Introduction Part I: Archive and Imagination 1. The Cinematic Soteriology of Bollywood 2. Fetish Power Unbound: A Small History of Woman In Chinese Cinema  3. Civil Contract of Photography in India  Part II: Genealogy 4. Tracking Utopias: Technology, Labour, and Secularism in Bombay Cinema (1930s-1940s)  5. National Becoming, Regional Variation, and Everyday Moments: U.P. and the Film Enquiry  6. Museum as Metaphor: The Politics of an Imagined Ahmedabad  Part III: Nostalgia  7. The Labour of Self-Making: Youth Service Workers, and Post-Socialist Urban Development in Kolkata 8. Nostalgia and the Mediatic Imagination in Tito‘s Yugoslavia  9. Past Futures of Old Media: Gulam Mohammed Sheikh‘s Kaavad: Travelling Shrine: Home  10. Sonic Ruptures: Music, Mobility, and Media  Part IV: Newness 11. Media and Imagination: Ramananda Chatterjee and His Journals in Three Languages  12. Radical Intervention in Dystopian Media Ecologies  13. Posthuman Amusements: Gaming and Virtuality  Part IV: Word and the World 14. Populist Publics: Print Capitalism and Crowd Violence Beyond Liberal Frameworks  Part VI: Political Theology 15. On Innocence: Blasphemy, Pan-Islam and the Uneven Mediation of Utopia

Notă biografică

Arvind Rajagopal is Professor in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication, and an affiliate faculty in the Department of Sociology, and the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. His book Politics after Television: Hindu Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Public in India (2001) won the Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Prize, and his edited volume The Indian Public Sphere appeared in 2009. His recent essays have been on the political culture of post-independence India. He is currently writing about the history of publicity.
Anupama Rao is Associate Professor of History, Barnard College, Columbia University. She has research and teaching interests in the history of anti-colonialism; gender and sexuality studies; caste and race; historical anthropology, social theory, and colonial genealogies of human rights and humanitarianism. Her book The Caste Question (2009) theorises caste subalternity, with specific focus on the role of anti-caste thought (and its thinkers). She is currently working on a book on the political thought of B. R. Ambedkar as well as a project titled Dalit Bombay, which explores the relationship between caste, political culture, and everyday life in colonial and postcolonial Bombay.

Descriere

This book explores the utopian spaces that have historically been created through media, and analyses the conditions that made them possible. The essays in the volume address non-Western histories of technopolitics, through distinctive perspectives on how to conceive the relationship between social form, everyday life, and utopian possibility.