Sarai Reader 08: Fear
Sarai Reader 08: FEAR Produced and Designed at the Sarai Media Lab, Delhi Sarai Reader Editorial Collective: Monica Narula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Ravi Sundaram, Ravi Vasudevan, Awadhendra Sharan + Jeebesh Bagchi Edited by: Monica Narula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta and Jeebesh Bagchi Assistant Editor: Shyama Haldar Kilpady Cover + Design: amitabh Kumar Translations: Shveta Sarda Back Cover image: Mohammed Khidar (sourced from the collection of Sameena Siddiqui) Published by The Director, Tel: (+91) 11 2394 2199 Fax: (+91) 11 2394 3450 E-mail: dak@sarai.net, www.sarai.net ISBN 978-81-905853-2-3 Any part of this book may be reproduced in any form without the prior written permission of the publishers Printed at Impress, Chittaranjan Park, New Delhi 312 pages, 14.5cm X 21cm Paperback: Rs. 350, US$ 20, Euro
| PREFACE- EDITORIAL COLLECTIVE v FACING FEAR - 1 Ventilator- Ivana Franke 3 Fear is a Hieroglyph Fractal Repeated on Different Scales- Claudia Roselli 8 Temporary Authoritarian Zone: Paul Virilio and the State of Fear - John Armitage 18 Politics, The State and the Tragedy of Fear: Connected Fragments from Europe to South Asia- Atul Mishra 20 Symptomatic Values beyond the Romantic - Markus Miessen 27 fear1 /fir / II/fie(r)/ n. uncountable or countable- Andrés de Santiago Areizaga 31 Just Fear Not Just Reason - Rahul Govind 36 Industrial Landscapes - Media Lab, Jadavpur University 40 SCARE QUOTES - 47 Who's Afraid of Voting? The Inexpressible Nature of Some Fears - Subuhi Jiwani 48 My Fear Begins Where Your Fear Ends - Ambarien Alqadar 53 When a People Settle/Re-Settle - Zainab Bawa 56 The Cow Ate It Up - Amitabh Kumar 66 AFRAID ATLAS - 77 Bethlehem - Jonathan Watkins 78 Otondro Prohori: Guarding Who? Against What? - Naeem Mohaiemen 81 Converstaion on Locating Conflict - Nanna Heidenreich + Nicole Wolf 91 Dirt and Dust: A Lover's Letter - F. Zahir Mibineh 99 Within the Circle of Fear: Field Notes from Iraqi Kurdistan - Francesca Recchia 114 Fear Yourself More than the Other - Agon Hamza 118 On Idealists and Realists: A MEmory of Fear, Silence and the 1990s Yugoslav Wars - Maja Petrović-Šteger 123 Graves: Buried Evidence from Kashmir - Angana P. Chatterji, Parvez Imroz, Gautam Navlakha, Zahir-Ud-Din, Mihir Desai, Khurram Parvez 130 Fear, Sexuality and the Future: Thinking Sex (Panic), Monstrosity and Prostitution - Svati P. Shah 142 Police States, Anthropology and Human Rights - Nandini Sundar 149 UNPARALYSIS - 154 On the Usefulness of Anxiety: Two Evil Media Stratagems - Matthew Fuller + Andrew Goffy155 Three Miles from Anarchy: Managerial Fear and the Affective Factory - Jamie Cross 164 Data Sphere - Adnan Hadzi 171 Factoring Fear: Investigations into Media(ted) Fear - Sandhya Devesan Nambiar 182 Fear in Neo-Kaliyuga: Epistemic Troubles in Techno Smrti Times - Kaushik Bhaumik 189 Changing Scenes - Moinak Biswas 196 DISQUIET - 206 The Apparel of Anxiety - Aarti Sethi 207 Feared Body - Agat Sharma 211 The Ninth and Final Ode to Life - Nupur Jain 214 Nine Pages on Disquiet - Priya Sen 224 Radiosity: A Short Philosophical Novel - Roberto Cavallini 234 Fear, Inequity and Time: A Sketch of How Art Answers the World's Questions - Raqs Media Collective 238 SCARED ON SCREEN - 240 A Reply to Terrorism on a Wednesday: A Citizen Vigilante's Prescriptions for Governing Terrorism - Rahul Mukherjee 241 Myth, Legend, Conspiracy: Urban Terror in Aamir and Delhi-6 - Kuhu Tanvir 248 Fear on Film: The Ramsay Brothers and Bombay's Horror Cinema - Kartik Nair 254 "I Swear It's Not a Cow...": The Eerie Glow of Television Screens in America's Heartland - Angela Anderson 262 IN CONVERSATION - 265 From Anxiety to Enthusiasm - Slavoj Žižek in conversation with Shuddhabrata Sengupta 266 Without Fear or Favour - Ashis Nandy in conversation with Shuddhabrata Sengupta 278 ALT/OPTION - 289 Fearless Speech, Fearless Listening - Cybermohalla Ensemble 290 Notes on Contributors 298 Acknowlwdgements 306 Image and Photo Credits 306 |









