Index
INTRODUCTION - vii
LEVERAGES - 1
The Possible Futures of Technology in China - Andrew Feenberg - 2
Lowtech: Escape from the Tyranny of the Leading Edge - Simon Griffiths - 7
E-Waste: Computers and Toxicity in India - Gopal Krishna - 12
Governing Technology: The City in the Age of Environmental Crisis - Awadhendra Sharan - 16
The Engineer in the Information Age - Arun Mehta - 22
Resisting Technology: Regaining a Personal Ecology - Ravi Agarwal - 30
Subterranean Labour - Srinivas Kuruganti - 35
EXCAVATIONS - 43
New Visual Technologies in the Bazaar: Reterritorialisation of the Sacred in Popular
Print Culture - Kajri Jain - 44
Taking Pictures: The Early Days of Photography in Bengal - Siddharth Ghosh
(Translation by Debjani Sengupta) - 58
The Home and Beyond: Domestic and Amateur Photography by Women in India
(1930-1960) - Sabeena Gadihoke - 61
Panchlight - Phanishwarnath Renu (Translation by Ravikant) - 70
Airborne: (from “In Persia”) - Rabindranath Tagore (Translation by Debjani Sengupta) - 74
Sadhanbabu’s Friends: Science Fiction in Bengal from 1882-1961 - Debjani Sengupta - 76
Acoustic Excavations: Soundings in the Ranigumpha Caves - Uma Shankar - 83
Old Scar - (photographs) Shahid Datawala, (text) Parvati Sharma - 90
SCANS - 94
Technologies of Self: Poverty and Health in an Urban Setting - Veena Das - 95
Intensive Care - Sumit Ray - 103
Stolen Rhetoric: The Appropriation of Choice by ART Industries - subRosa - 110
Reproductive Technologies in India: Confronting Differences - Rupsa Mallik - 120
Uncanny Bodies - 124
Shaping Technology / Building Body(Nets) - Ana Viseu - 128
Black Magic, Biotech & Dark Markets - Eugene Thacker - 134
REGISTRATIONS - 143
McLuhan’s Pendulum: Reading Dialectics of Technological Distance - Mike Hunter - 144
Becoming Mobile: SMS and Portable Text - Suzy Small - 157
Gadgetry and Subjectivity: The Making of the Tamil Brahmin Self - Uma Maheshwari Kalpagam - 160
Excelsior 3000: Bowel Technology Project - Ian Haig - 168
Disruptive IT in South India - Nimmi Rangaswamy - 170
Call Centre Calling: Technology, Network and Location - Raqs Media Collective - 176
DEVICES: CYBERMOHALLA DIARIES - 183
Transformer, Clock, Telephone, Cable, Generator, Tubelight
Naseem Bano, Babli Rai, Mehrunnissa, Dhirender P. Singh, Yashoda Singh (Translations by Shveta)
Metro Nights - Monica Narula - 197
IMAGINATIONS + AESTHETICS - 200
Dreams of an (Un)Certain Future - Steve Dietz - 201
Reading Technology: Curling up with a Good Information Appliance - Linda Carroli - 205
On Software as Art - Andreas Broekmann - 215
Waste Net, Want Not: Art and New Media in 90s Britain - Pauline van Mourik Broekman - 219
Creative Encounters: The Art/Science of Collaboration - Amanda McDonald Crowley - 227
Beyond the Apocalypse: An Unfinished Meditation on Ethics - Rana Dasgupta - 236
The Typewriter of the Illiterate: Interview with János Sugár - Geert Lovink - 243
The Way Home: Kattas as Navigation Aids - Bharti Kher - 247
Pet Architecture: And how to Use it - Yoshiharu Tsukamoto - 249
Colliding Soundscapes: Conversation with Hildegard Westerkamp - Lex Bhagat - 255
ENCODE + DECODE - 263
Beyond the Computer - Gabriel Pickard - 264
App.lying Software: A Reader-List Discussion - edit + design Are Flågan - 273
“No Other Hand will Scratch My Back”: Interview with Arash Zeini - Ravikant - 282
Indic, Especially Hindi, Computing: An Index of Choices - Ravikant - 290
Jal Chitra: Water Map – Software for Rural Water Management - Vikram Vyas - 292
The (copylefted) Source Code for the Ethical Production of Information Freedom
- Biella Coleman - 297
The Ghost in the Machine: The Legal Capture of Technology - Lawrence Liang - 303
PRACTICES + POLITICS - 312
Technology, Trust and Terror - Langdon Winner - 313
Social Sorting in the Early 21st Century: Video Surveillance and Governance - Volker Eick - 321
Resistance is Futile: Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and Big Media - Robert X. Cringely - 332
The ‘Darknet’ & ‘Trusted Computing’ - Rana Dasgupta - 335
Free as in Air: An Interview with Vortex - Saul Albert - 337
The Language of Tactical Media - Joanne Richardson - 346
Alternative Radio: A Personal Testimony - David Barsamian - 352
ALT + OPTION - 356
The Concise Lexicon: Of / For the Digital Commons - Raqs Media Collective - 357
The Wireless Commons Manifesto - 366
A Hacker Manifesto: Version 5.7 - McKenzie Wark - 368
Notes on Contributors - 373
Acknowledgments - 379
