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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,
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054, india

Tel: (+91) 11 2394 2199 Fax: (+91) 11 2394 3450 E-mail: dak@sarai.net, www.sarai.net
Delhi, 2010

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
for educational and non-commercial use. The contributors and publishers, however, would like to be
informed.

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

 

 


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