Sarai Reader 06 uses 'Turbulence' as a conceptual vantage point from which to interrogate all that is in the throes of terminal crisis, and to invoke all that is as yet unborn. It seek to examine 'turbulence' as a global phenomenon, unbounded by the arbitrary lines that denote national and state boundaries in a 'political' map of the world. It wants to see areas of low and high pressure in politics, economy and culture that transcend borders, to investigate the flow of information and processes between downstream and upstream sites in societies and cultures globally.
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In Turbulence - Editorial Collective - vii Transformations: Reflections on Uncertainty The Time of Turbulence - R. Krishna The Father of Long/Fat Tails: Interview with Benoît Mandelbrot - Hans Ulrich Obrist Place - Renée Green Notes from New York, July 2005 - Molly Nesbit Cement and Speed - Michael Taussig Mapping the Invisible: Notes on the Reason of Conspiracy Theories - Cédric Vincent Turbulent Spaces of Fragments and Flows - Felix Stalder The Terror of Having a Body - Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay Weather Report: Forces of Nature Disaster Signs - Pradeep Saha An Aesthetic of Turbulence: The Works of Ned Kahn - David Mather After the Deluge - Gyan Prakash Waterline - Legier Biederman Waves of Wrath - R.V. Ramani Zalzala (Earthquake)! - Kavita Pai Troubleshooting: Technologies of Communication in Turbulent Times A Candle in My Window - Peter Griffin Support Iraqi Bloggers: Interview with Cecile Landman - Geert Lovink Locative Dissent - Jeremy Hight Once upon a Flash - Nishant Shah Altered States: Experiencing Change Pixels of Memory on the Hypertextualised 'I’ - Deb Kamal Ganguly Playing Wild! - Andreas Broeckmann Download Downtime - Trebor Scholz A Science of Liberalisation and the Markets It Produces - Siva Arumugam The Visibility of the Revolutionary Project and New Technologies - Raoul Victor Light from the Box - Franco La Cecla, Stefano Savona + Piero Zanini The Neurobiopolitics of Global Consciousness - Warren Neidich In Search of the Centre - Vlado Stjepic Like Cleopatra - Parismita Singh Strange Days: The History and Geography of Turbulence “Jahan se Dekhiye Yak Shor-e Shor-angez Nikle Hain (A Riot of Turbulence, Wherever You Look)”: The Dehlvi Ghadar - Mahmood Farooqui The Silent Memorial: Life of the Mutiny in Orchha’s Lakshmi Temple - Rahaab Allana Buccaneers, Pirates and Privateers - Vijayalakshmi Balakrishnan A City Feeding on Itself: Testimonies and Histories of ‘Direct Action’ Day - Debjani Sengupta “Kothai Aj Shei Shiraj Sikder (Where Today Is that Shiraj Sikder)?”: Terrorists or Guerrillas in the Mist - Naeem Mohaiemen Remembering Communism: The Experience of Political Defeat - Philip Bounds The Dynamic Balkans: A Working Model for the EU? Interview with Kyong Park and Marjetica Potrc - Nataša Petrešin GuateMex: No-Man's-Water - Marcos Lutyens Paisajes - Sergio De La Torre Ceuta and Melilla Fences: A Defensive System? - Guido Cimadomo + Pilar Martínez Ponce Shifting Sediments - Dane Mitchell Signal Disturbance: Questions - Media / Art / Identity What Hit the News-Stand?! Introduction to a Dialogue - Nasrin Tabatabai, Babak Afrassiabi + Kianoosh Vahabi The Sand of the Coliseum, the Glare of Television, and the Hope of Emancipation - Nancy Adajania Be Offended, Be Very Offended - Linda Carroli The Khushboo Case File: Reverse Culture Jamming - Tushar Dhara Seeking Chaos: The Birth and Intentions of Queer Politics - Gautam Bhan Close Encounters: Witnessing Turbulence Family/Families - Ashim Purkayastha Liberal Nightmares: A Manual of Northeastern Dreams - Tarun Bhartiya Poetry in a Time of Terror - Robin S. Ngangom Turbulent Indigo and the Act of Cautious Reassemblage - Sampurna Chattarji The Man Who Could Walk through In-Between Positions - Sureyyya Evren This Morning, This Evening: Beirut, 15 July 2006 - Walid Raad Who Didn’t Start the Fire...? Reflections on Bombs over a Cup of Coffee - Simran Chadha A Kashmiri’s ‘Encounter’ with Delhi - Bismillah Gilani On Listening to Violence: Reflections of a Researcher of the Partition of India - Sadan Jha Unstable Structures: Improvisations with Infrastructure Contingent - Emeka Okereke Turbulence before Take-Off: Life Trajectories Spotted en Route to a Brazilian Runway - David Harris Casting Village within City - Yushi Uehara Tapping In: Leaky Sovereignties and Engineered (Dis)Order in an Urban Water System - Karen Coelho A 'Legitimate' Business Activity: Unofficial Stock Exchanges of Vijayawada - S. Ananth Notes from Beseiged Neighbourhoods Nangla’s Delhi - Cybermohalla Practitioners Alt/Option Collaboration: The Dark Side of the Multitude - Florian Schneider We Lost the War. Welcome to the World of Tomorrow - Frank Rieger Notes on Contributors Image and Photo Credits
In Turbulence - Editorial Collective - vii
Transformations: Reflections on Uncertainty The Time of Turbulence - R. Krishna The Father of Long/Fat Tails: Interview with Benoît Mandelbrot - Hans Ulrich Obrist Place - Renée Green Notes from New York, July 2005 - Molly Nesbit Cement and Speed - Michael Taussig Mapping the Invisible: Notes on the Reason of Conspiracy Theories - Cédric Vincent Turbulent Spaces of Fragments and Flows - Felix Stalder The Terror of Having a Body - Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay
Weather Report: Forces of Nature Disaster Signs - Pradeep Saha An Aesthetic of Turbulence: The Works of Ned Kahn - David Mather After the Deluge - Gyan Prakash Waterline - Legier Biederman Waves of Wrath - R.V. Ramani Zalzala (Earthquake)! - Kavita Pai
Troubleshooting: Technologies of Communication in Turbulent Times A Candle in My Window - Peter Griffin Support Iraqi Bloggers: Interview with Cecile Landman - Geert Lovink Locative Dissent - Jeremy Hight Once upon a Flash - Nishant Shah
Altered States: Experiencing Change Pixels of Memory on the Hypertextualised 'I’ - Deb Kamal Ganguly Playing Wild! - Andreas Broeckmann Download Downtime - Trebor Scholz A Science of Liberalisation and the Markets It Produces - Siva Arumugam The Visibility of the Revolutionary Project and New Technologies - Raoul Victor Light from the Box - Franco La Cecla, Stefano Savona + Piero Zanini The Neurobiopolitics of Global Consciousness - Warren Neidich In Search of the Centre - Vlado Stjepic Like Cleopatra - Parismita Singh
Strange Days: The History and Geography of Turbulence “Jahan se Dekhiye Yak Shor-e Shor-angez Nikle Hain (A Riot of Turbulence, Wherever You Look)”: The Dehlvi Ghadar - Mahmood Farooqui The Silent Memorial: Life of the Mutiny in Orchha’s Lakshmi Temple - Rahaab Allana Buccaneers, Pirates and Privateers - Vijayalakshmi Balakrishnan A City Feeding on Itself: Testimonies and Histories of ‘Direct Action’ Day - Debjani Sengupta “Kothai Aj Shei Shiraj Sikder (Where Today Is that Shiraj Sikder)?”: Terrorists or Guerrillas in the Mist - Naeem Mohaiemen Remembering Communism: The Experience of Political Defeat - Philip Bounds The Dynamic Balkans: A Working Model for the EU? Interview with Kyong Park and Marjetica Potrc - Nataša Petrešin GuateMex: No-Man's-Water - Marcos Lutyens Paisajes - Sergio De La Torre Ceuta and Melilla Fences: A Defensive System? - Guido Cimadomo + Pilar Martínez Ponce Shifting Sediments - Dane Mitchell
Signal Disturbance: Questions - Media / Art / Identity What Hit the News-Stand?! Introduction to a Dialogue - Nasrin Tabatabai, Babak Afrassiabi + Kianoosh Vahabi The Sand of the Coliseum, the Glare of Television, and the Hope of Emancipation - Nancy Adajania Be Offended, Be Very Offended - Linda Carroli The Khushboo Case File: Reverse Culture Jamming - Tushar Dhara Seeking Chaos: The Birth and Intentions of Queer Politics - Gautam Bhan
Close Encounters: Witnessing Turbulence Family/Families - Ashim Purkayastha Liberal Nightmares: A Manual of Northeastern Dreams - Tarun Bhartiya Poetry in a Time of Terror - Robin S. Ngangom Turbulent Indigo and the Act of Cautious Reassemblage - Sampurna Chattarji The Man Who Could Walk through In-Between Positions - Sureyyya Evren This Morning, This Evening: Beirut, 15 July 2006 - Walid Raad Who Didn’t Start the Fire...? Reflections on Bombs over a Cup of Coffee - Simran Chadha A Kashmiri’s ‘Encounter’ with Delhi - Bismillah Gilani On Listening to Violence: Reflections of a Researcher of the Partition of India - Sadan Jha
Unstable Structures: Improvisations with Infrastructure Contingent - Emeka Okereke Turbulence before Take-Off: Life Trajectories Spotted en Route to a Brazilian Runway - David Harris Casting Village within City - Yushi Uehara Tapping In: Leaky Sovereignties and Engineered (Dis)Order in an Urban Water System - Karen Coelho A 'Legitimate' Business Activity: Unofficial Stock Exchanges of Vijayawada - S. Ananth
Notes from Beseiged Neighbourhoods Nangla’s Delhi - Cybermohalla Practitioners Alt/Option Collaboration: The Dark Side of the Multitude - Florian Schneider We Lost the War. Welcome to the World of Tomorrow - Frank Rieger Notes on Contributors Image and Photo Credits
Notes from Beseiged Neighbourhoods Nangla’s Delhi - Cybermohalla Practitioners
Alt/Option Collaboration: The Dark Side of the Multitude - Florian Schneider We Lost the War. Welcome to the World of Tomorrow - Frank Rieger
Notes on Contributors Image and Photo Credits
Reviews and Author details: Turbulence clarifies its intentions with R Krishna’s opening piece, “The Time of Turbulence”. From that point on, the collection sucks the reader into a compelling and chaotic world of pirates, profiteers, hyper-textual encounters and “modernity’s fractally germinating, ever questioning bastards”. ...Sarai Reader 06, like the rest of the series, works precisely because the contributions seem to have been edited by a thoughtful and light hand. Each text speaks out for itself, unburdened by the baggage of its neighbours. The Reader’s single underlying theme, if there is one, is probably best summed up by Berlin-based computer wizard Frank Rieger’s closing text. “If we don’t enjoy taking on the system, we will get tired of the contest,” he notes. “And they will win. So instead of being angry, ideological and obdurate, let’s be funny, flexible and creative.” Siddharth Anand, Himal Southasian, January 2007
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