Sarai Reader 02: The Cities of Everyday Life
<p>This year’s Sarai Reader brings together a range of critical thinking on urban life and the contemporary, marked by spreading media cultures, new social conflict and globalisation. Scholars, media practitioners, critics and activists use a flow of images, memories and hidden realities to create a fascinating array of original interventions in thinking about cities today. In the context of India, where a large part of this reader has been edited, this is significant, given the frugality of writing on city life in this part of the world. With essays, images, analyses, and manifestoes The Cities of Everyday Life reflects on the contemporary urban condition, detours into the back alleys of the global city, takes on media representations of terror and war, examines the politics of information, anticipates the futures of digital urbanism, registers the details of media flows, explores representations of the city, and looks at globalisation from below.</p>
Editors: Geert Lovink, Ravi S Vasudevan, Jeebesh Bagchi, Ravi Sundaram, Monica Narula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta
Authors: Gyan Prakash, Radhika Subramaniam, Ashis Nandy, Aditya Nigam, Awadhendra Sharan, Kathryn Hansen, Avishek Ganguly, Ravi S. Vasudevan, Ranjani Mazumdar, Nitin Govil, Bhrigupati Singh, RAQS Media Collective, Lisa Haskel, Uday Prakash, Fran Ilich, Yasmeen Arif, Abir Bazaz, Gagan Gill, Monica Narula, Niji Akanni, Monica Narula, Matthew Fuller, Debjani Sengupta, Parvati Sharma, Joy Chatterjee, Sopan Joshi, Azra Tabassum, Shamsher Ali, Suraj Rai, Patrick Deer, Toby Miller, Rajeev Bhargava, Veena Das, William Mazzarella, Paul Virilio, Dorothea Hahn, Lars Spuybroek, Ole Bouman, Cho Im Sik, Brian Caroll, Archimedia, Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Rana Dasgupta, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Sam de Silva, David Lyon, Florian Schneider, Evan Henshaw-Plath, K. Ravi Srinivas, Mathew Arnison, Franco "Bifo" Berardi, McKenzie Wark
Part of: Sarai Reader