[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Ravi Sundram lectures @ De Balie (Amsterdam) & viathe net - Thursday April 20th

[Gerbrand Oudenaarden <gerbrand@xs4all.nl>]

Hi Eric,

ik weet niet meer of ik het al aangekondigd had, maar ik kan op 20 april
niet in Amsterdam zijn. Ik zit dan nog in Washington voor de IMF
protesten.

Groetje,
Gerbrand


On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Eric Kluitenberg wrote:

> A N N O U N C E M E N T
> 
> 
> Ravi Sundrama lectures @ De Balie, Amsterdam & live via
> http://www.balie.nl/live
> 
> 
> Wonderland 2000 #5
> 
> Ravi Sundaram (SARAI - New Delhi)
> 
> "Recycled Modernity, or the hidden abodes of Computer culture(s) in India"
> 
> De Balie - Grote Zaal,
> Thursday April 20th, 2000
> Aanvang: 20.00 uur
> 
> 
> This presentation takes a look at the fuzzy world of gray electronic
> culture, which has transformed the meaning of everday life in contemporary
> India. Consider this: in contrast to the West, informal networks and
> players dominate electronic daily life in South Asia, neighbourhood cable,
> internet booths and grey market computers dominate the market.
> 
>  We cab argue that a recyled or a 'pirate electronic modernity" has emerged
> in India's cities, largely non-legal and often outside the domain of the
> old state. Within the country, the everyday form of this electronic culture
> often draws in those social groups excluded from the old hegemonic social
> coalition. Further, this recyled culture has developed a historically
> specific investment in modernity, as well as the global, yet through its
> practice often breaks modernity's rules.
> 
> This is a world that is magical and dispersed, but on its own terms, often
> making a muddle of Western (and Indian) radical solutions.
> 
> CV.
> ------------
> Ravi Sundaram is a Fellow of the  Centre for the Study of Developing
> Societies in Delhi and the Joint Director of the Sarai, the New Media
> Initiative ( http://www.sarai.net ).
> 
> Ravi Sundaram is researching issues of urban cultures in India in the
> context of the decline of the rural imaginary of old-style nationalism, and
> the rise of new urban cultures of conflict, violence and increased access
> to a global modernity.
> 
> 
> Specifically, Ravi Sundaram's work looks at the cohering of a new
> electronic culture in South Asia (television, mass music culture and the
> new computer culture) and the changing urban spaces in India from the 1980s
> onwards.
> 
> He has spoken and written extensively on these issues in India and the rest
> of the world.
> 
> 
> 
> This program can also be followed live via the Internet (in co-operation
> with the Digital City Amsterdam - DDS):
> http://www.balie.nl/live
> or:
> http://live.dds.nl
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> URL's:
> 
> 
> * SARAI - a new centre for networkd and urban culture in New Delhi:
> 
> http://www.sarai.net
> 
> 
> * Complete text - "Asian Futures...."
> 
> http://www.bln.de/dogfilm/hm.dat.sund.html
> 
> 
> * Interview for  Telepolis (by Geert Lovink) "About the Brazilianization of
> India":
> 
> http://www01.ix.de/tp/english/html/result.xhtml?url=/tp/english/inhalt/reg/1047/
> 1.html&words=Sundaram
> 
> 
> * Article in Mute - Critical information Services (London) - "The
> Nineteenth Century and the Future of Technocultures in India":
> 
> http://www.metamute.com/issue11/sundaram.htm
> 
> 
> * A few lectures on-line:
> 
> http://www.hkw.de/forum/forum1/doc/statem/e-sundaram.html
> 
> http://www.c3.hu/events/98/sundaram/
> 
> http://www.telefonica.es/fat/esundara.html
> 
> 
> 
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