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Sensor-Census-Sensor: Colloquium Coordinator: Shuddhabrata Sengupta Production and Operations Management: Ashish Mahajan Print Design: Mrityunjay Chatterjee Audio Recording: Bhagwati Prasad, Ish Sherawat Documentation: Smriti Vohra This colloquium is an activity of Towards A Culture Of Open Networks, a collaborative initiative of Sarai-CSDS, Delhi (www.sarai.net); Waag Society, Amsterdam (www.waag.org); and t0, Vienna (www.t0.or.at). The initiative is supported by the EU-India Economic and Cross-Cultural Programme under its Media, Communication and Culture Dimension. Disclaimer: This document has been produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The contents of this document are the sole responsibility of the partners in the Towards A Culture Of Open Networks initiative, and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the European Union. Published by: Printed at Shivam Sundram, Green Park Extension, New Delhi ISBN: 978-81-905853-7-8 November 2007 Price: Rs 150, US$ 12, € 1
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Panel 1: Information, Mobility and Exclusion: Passport, Ticket and Rubber Stamp: The “problem of the pauper Hajji”, c. 1882-1926 5 Passports, Literacy, Phantasm: The States of Writing Nation 12 Panel 2: Monitoring Surveillance Exposure: Surveillance and the Political Economy of Interiority 16 Machetes, Electrodes and Databases 19 Security Culture and the Economy of Fear 21 Panel 3: The Artist As Information Practitioner Archival Malpractice and Counter-Strategies 26 Information versus Dissemination: Artistic and Activist Strategies of Information Practice 30 Across Borders and beyond Definitions: Creating Concepts and Syndicating Content 36 Keynote: Histories of Identification Why Did Fingerprinting Emerge in Colonial India? 41 Keynote: The Record of Power Seeing Like a State: State Controls in Europe Since 1500 49 Panel 2: The Daily Life of Information From the Chowkeydari Act to Biometric Identification: Passages from the History of the 57 Ghareeb Aadmi ko Kaun Dekhta Hai (Who Sees the Poor Person)? 62 Documents as Date-Lines: The Making and Unmaking of Urban Settlements 65 Panel 3: Neo-Liberal Governmentality and Risk: Information and Surveillance in India 75 Panel 4: Truth, Transmission and Technology The Technology of Telegraphy and the Telegraphy of Technology: Magic and 83 ... And Nothing But the Truth: So Help Me Science 87 Unofficial Secrets Act: The Administration of Certainty and Ambiguity 92 Keynote: Histories of Information Illegibility: Reading and Insecurity in 19th-Century Law and Government 101 Panel 1: Censorship and Memory Conversing the Cut: A Chronicle of Censorship in Egyptian Cinema 111 The Silence of the Arabs 112 Listening in the Archive, Listening for the Archive: History, Memory and the Archive 116 Panel 2: Network Effects Imagined Networks: Rhetoric, Poetics and Politics in Electronic Communities and 124 Resisting System Subjectification: Paranoia as a Culturally Specific Affect of Network Use 128 Panel 3: The Accession Register: Information Abundance, Scarcity and Libraries The Class Library of Babel: Digital Librarianship and Copyright Circumvention 134 Memoirs of Information Work 136 “Because It’s There! Because I Can!” Desire and Information Economies of Abundance 140 Dialogue Holes, Erasures, Silences: Archives and Absences 145 Ectropy Index 154
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