[Air-l] Sarai Reader 03 - Shaping Technologies

[jeremy hunsinger]

>
a book announcement that i think will be interesting to some of you.
> Sarai Reader 03 : Shaping Technologies
> Paperback, 392 pages, Rs. 295, US $ 15, Euro 15
> ISBN 81-901429-3-3
>
> Sarai, CSDS and the Waag Society for Old and New Media announce the 
> publication of Sarai Reader 03 : Shaping Technologies. The book will 
> be released on the 14th of March 2003 at Sarai, CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, 
> Delhi.
>
> "Shaping Technologies " sets out to ratchet our engagement with the 
> contemporary moment a notch higher, in directions that are sober, 
> exhilarating and discomfiting all at once. The book brings to the fore 
> a series of situations and predicaments that mark the encounter 
> between people and machines, between nature and culture, and between 
> knowledge and power.
>
> The issues covered span a wide range - from the cognitive and ethical 
> dilemmas that beset the engineer, to the legal and cultural 
> implications of copying in a digital realm, from software as art to 
> the history of science fiction, from wireless manifestoes to the 
> domestication of photography, from kitchen utensils to airplanes, from 
> mobile phones to kerosene lamps, from body nets to biotech, from 
> reproductive technologies to technologies of reproduction, from 
> computers to radios and from coal mines to call centres.
>
> A cutting edge collection of original writing and images by theorists, 
> critics, photographers, philosophers, engineers, activists, artists, 
> designers media practitioners and programmers from many parts of the 
> world.
>
> Editorial Collective : Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula, Ravi Sundaram, 
> Ravi Vasudevan and Shuddhabrata Sengupta (Sarai) Geert Lovink and 
> Marleen Stikker (Waag Society)
>
> Contributors include : Arun Mehta, Biella Coleman, Ana Viseu, Raqs 
> Media Collective, Rabindranath Tagore, Sabina Gadihoke, Steve Dietz, 
> Pauline van Mourik Broekman, Rana Dasgupta, Debjani Sengupta, 
> Siddhartha Ghosh, McKenzie Wark, Andrew Feenberg, Eugene Thacker, 
> Joanne Richardson, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, subRosa, Rupsa Mallik & Veena 
> Das
> Interviews with : Arash Zeini, Janos Sugar, Hildegard Westerkamp
> Photo Essays by :  Shahid Datawala, Monica Narula, Srinivas Kuruganti
>
> Published by Sarai/CSDS, Delhi
> and the Waag Society/for Old and New Media, Amsterdam
> for enquiries contact publications at sarai.net
>
> An online edition of the book is available at
> http://www.sarai.net/journal/reader3.html
>
> paperback, 392 pages, Rs. 295, US $ 15, Euro 15
> ISBN 81-901429-3-3
>
> For enquiries, contact: publications at sarai.net
> or write to
> Publications
> Sarai, CSDS
> 29 Rajpur Road
> Delhi 110 054
> India