Reader 02 brings together a range of critical thinking on urban life and the contemporary, marked by spreading media cultures, new social conflict and globalisation.

The book brings to the fore a series of situations and predicaments that mark the encounter between people and machines, between nature and culture, and between knowledge and power.

The 2004 Reader is devoted to the dual themes of crisis reporting in the media, and the crisis within the media when it comes to the reportage of violence. To acknowledge the pervasiveness of the crisis in our times, is also to engage with the media through which crisis, and the representation of crisis, become the 'substance of our morning's meditations'.

'Bare Acts' 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.

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.

Frontiers considers limits, edges, borders and margins of all kinds as the sites for declarations, occasions for conversations, arguments, debates, recounting and reflection. Our book suggests that you consider the frontier as the skin of our time and our world and we invite you to get under the skin of contemporary experience in order to generate a series of crucial (and frequently unsettling) narrative and analytical possibilities.