Anxious States: Indian cities after Media Modernity
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, October 23, 2009 | 4:00PM - 6:00PM | Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies 1 Devonshire Place |
Series
B.N. Pandey Memorial Lecture 2009/2010
Description
The expansion of India’s cities has made urban crisis highly visible in recent years. Along with urban crisis, informal technological networks have proliferated, radically bypassing states and corporations. Older technologies of urban control set up under modernist designs of the 1950s have become increasingly irrelevant, or paralyzed.
This presentation considers the futures of the Indian cities after media and asks if we need significantly revise our idea of postcolonial urbanism itself.
Ravi Sundaram is a Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. In 2000 he founded the well known Sarai programme along with Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi, Ravi Vasudevan and Shuddhabrata Sengupta. Sundaram has co-edited the critically acclaimed Sarai Reader series, The Public Domain (2001), The Cities of Everyday Life(2002), Shaping Technologies (2003), Crisis Media(2004), and Frontiers (2007). He is the author of Pirate Modernity: Media Urbanism in Delhi (Routledge, London 2009). His current work is on urban fear after media modernity.
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