Index

CONTENTS

PREFACE - vi

ARGUMENTS - 1
 Invitation - Sarai Reader Editorial Collective - 2
 Porous Legalities and Avenues of Participation - Lawrence Liang - 6
 “…Bolti Band (SILENCED)!” - Clifton D’ Rozario - 18
 Lepers, Witches and Infidels & It’s a Bug’s Life - Francesca da Rimini - 26
 Rested - Colette Mazabrard - 39

DISPUTATIONS - 45
 Of Butchers and Policemen: Law, Justice and Economies of Anxiety - 
 Gunalan Nadarajan - 46
 Down by Law: A Critique for the 21st Century - Alexander Karschnia - 57
  ‘New’ Delhi: Fashioning an Urban Environment through Science and Law - 
 Awadhendra Sharan - 69
 Improbablevoices.net: An Improbable Monument to Witnessing and the Ethics of Trespass - Sharon Daniel - 78

TRESPASSES - 95
 The Discovery of the Fifth World: Stealth Countries and Logo Nations - 
 Daniel van der Velden, Tina Clausmeyer, Vinca Kruk, Adriaan Mellegers 
 (Meta Haven Project) - 96
 Transcoding Sovereignty: Naked Bandit/Here, Not Here/White Sovereign - KR + CF - 111
 SMS to Passport - Vishwajyoti Ghosh - 115
 The Strange Case of Qays Al Kareem - Tripta Wahi - 123
 Marginalia - Kai Friese - 129
 On Smugglers, Pirates and Aroma Makers - Ursula Biemann - 145
 Sponge Borders - Guido Cimadomo + Pilar Martínez Ponce - 150
 Notes on the Disappeared: Towards a Visual Language of Resistance - 
 Chitra Ganesh + Mariam Ghani - 154
 Dreams and Disguises, As Usual - Raqs Media Collective - 162

HACKS - 176
 Trespasses of the State: Ministering to Theological Dilemmas through the Copyright/Trademark - Naveeda Khan - 178
 Harmony or Discord? TRIPS, China, and Overlapping Sovereignties - Shujen Wang - 189
 Innovating Piracy: The Bare Act of Stealing, and Shaping the Future - Menso Heus - 202
 Is Hacking Illegal? - Yuwei Lin + David Beer - 205
 Three Proposals for a Real Democracy: Information-Sharing to a Different Tune - Brian Holmes - 215
 Roots Culture: Free Software Vibrations “inna Babylon” - Armin Medosch - 222

ENCROACHMENTS - 241
 Touts, Pirates and Ghosts - Solomon Benjamin - 242
 Daily Journey - Satyajit Pande - 255
 Complicating the City: Media Itineraries - Media Researchers @ Sarai - 258
 Begum Samru and the Security Guard - Anand Vivek Taneja - 287
 My Driving Master: A Story of Everyday Trespasses - Zainab Bawa - 297
 Naye Qanoon (New Laws) - 301

ANNOTATIONS - 305
 Vis-à-Visage - I. Helen Jilavu - 306
 Cybermohalla Logs/Acts/Texts - CM Labs @ LNJP-DP-NM - 308

NEGOTIATIONS - 323
 The Act of Leisure - Iram Ghufran + Taha Mehmood - 325
 Surveillance, Performance, Self-Surveillance: Interview with Jill Magid - 
 Geert Lovink - 339
 Living Between Laws - Ninad Pandit - 348
 Negotiating Territory - Ateya Khorakiwala - 354

RECORDS - 359
 Tis Hazari Diaries - Chander Nigam - 360
 Bare Acts and Collective Explorations: The MKSS Experience with the Right to Information - Preeti Sampat + Nikhil Dey - 385

TRIALS - 397
 Zimbabwe’s ‘New Clothes’: Identity and Power Among Displaced Farm Workers - Amy R. West + Blair Rutherford - 398
 Standardised, Packaged, Ready for Consumption - Ravi Agarwal - 412
 The Act of Instruction - Jan Ritsema - 420

VIOLATIONS - 427
 Womanhood Laid Bare: How Katherine Mayo and Manoda Devi Challenged Indian Public Morality - Alice Albinia - 428
 Literature and the Limits of Law: Crime, Guilt and Agency in Premchand’s Ghaban - Ulka S. Anjaria - 437
 The Honourable Murder: The Trial of Kawas Maneckshaw Nanavati - Aarti Sethi - 444
 Judicial Extract - 454
 Representing a Woman’s Story: Explicit Film and the Efficacy of Censorship in Japan - Hikari Hori - 457
 The Queer Case of Section 377 - Siddharth Narrain - 466

ASSAULTS - 471
 “For God’s Sake, Be Objective!” - Somnath Batabyal - 472
 Another 9/11, Another Act of Terror: The ‘Embedded Disorder’ of the AFSPA - 
 A. Bimol Akoijam - 481
 Warporn Warpunk! Autonomous Videopoesis in Wartime - Matteo Pasquinelli - 492
 ‘First, Do No Harm...’: Ensuring Humanitarian Military Interventions - 
 Bikram Jeet Batra - 500
 War Cake - Linda F. Beekman - 511

DISSENSIONS - 515
 The Law of the Mother: Soldiers’ Mothers and the Post-Soviet Army - 
 Irina Aristarkhova - 516
 Naked Protest and the Politics of Personalism - Isaac Souweine - 526
 Analytical World Statistics Wall Chart, 2003 - Louise Kolff - 537
 A Comparative Anatomy of Post-Mortem Acts - Smriti Vohra - 540

ALT/OPTION - 551
 The Accidental Activist - Fredrik Svensk + Kristoffer Gansing - 552
 ‘Our’chitecture - Jayson Claude - 559
 Sex Workers’ Manifesto - Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, Kolkata - 564
 Bare Wiring - Sophea Lerner - 572

 Notes on Contributors - 574
 Image and Photo Credits - 581