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Sarai.txt is a quaterly broadsheet produced by an editorial collective at Sarai. In playfully interpreting and rendering research about urban experience, the txt draws from research in Sarai, from the Sarai lists and repurposes material from the public domain. Txt is circulated in print form, on lists as text and as pdfs.

Sarai.txt 4.1: The Changing Same
Sarai.txt 4.1: The Changing Same Tenth in the Sarai broadsheet series, 'The Changing Same' is a playful excavation of the idea of the 'original'. The image text compositions use an aesthetics of layering and translucence to produce meaning.
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Sarai.txt 3.3: Horizon of Scanning
Sarai.txt 3.3: Horizon of Scanning Horizon of Scanning juxtaposes found materials, thoughts and reflections on the body, to radio waves, to television screens, the coming of street lighting, to acts of reading - scanning operates as a metaphor for control, diagnosis and a recombinant frame (when you search, you scan, and so open up possibilities of newer interconnections). The word travels between different disciplines and practices (from medicine to literature to surveillance to everyday acts).
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Sarai.txt: DRAFT
Sarai.txt: DRAFT DRAFT moves from the city to the inner spaces of the home where "home" emerges as a contested space that comes together at the interstices of  sometimes secret, and sometimes extremely public thoughts, desires, actions and motivations
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Sarai.txt 3.1: City Games
Sarai.txt 3.1: City Games City Games treats the material and immaterial surfaces of the city as  a site for the elaboration of questions and provocations, rather than  as a stable structure. It turns the ordered forms of urban space  inside-out, and opens up a poetics of the ‘interiority’ of exposed  spaces in the routine of the city.
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Sarai.txt 2.4: CURRENT
Sarai.txt 2.4: CURRENT This edition of the broadsheet emerges as a response to the provocation of thinking through the social life of technologies of communication.
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Sarai.txt 2.3: The State You Are In
Sarai.txt 2.3: The State You Are In Through what registers can we try to articulate the matrices of anxiety that are part of everyday living? How does movement, space, design change because of fear, uncertainty, anxiety?
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Sarai.txt 2.2: TRANSMIT
Sarai.txt 2.2: TRANSMIT The circulation of things is crucially about the patterns of usuage that build around them. Circulation builds cultures and contexts of sociality, in which things are gifted, shared, transformed, repurposed and remixed, in the course of which that which is being transmitted spills over its destined routes.
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Sarai.txt 2.1: SHIFT
Sarai.txt 2.1: SHIFT Paradigm Shift, Shifting Sands, Night Shift, Makeshift...
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Sarai.txt 1.2: This Copy is Yours
Sarai.txt 1.2: This Copy is Yours This issue of the broadsheet is a whimsical meditation on the act of copying and copy-culture
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Sarai.txt 1.1: The Object of This Broadsheet
Sarai.txt 1.1: The Object of This Broadsheet The first issue of the broadsheet is a series of texts and images on the Delhi cityscape.
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