Ravi Sundaram
Biographic Data
| ID | 145796 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ravi Sundaram |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ravi |
| FAMILY NAME | Sundaram |
| SIGNATURE | SUNDARAM R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for the Study of Developing Societies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6551-3996 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
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Analogue and Digital
Resilience and coevolution of preferential interdependent networks
Hindu nationalism's crisis machine
This essay looks at Hindu nationalism's investment in a crisis machine linked closely to digital media networks in India. Media infrastructures have provided right-wing populism with new techniques for performative action and network-driven collective expansion. A crisis ontology inherent in digital media has helped Hindu nationalism to optimize techniques of mobilization across time and space. While ambulatory, media-enabled populations are subj…
The Postcolonial City in India. From Planning to Information
Infrastructure or what seemed to stand in for it, has served as the reference point for a series of debates in India in the last decade, including urban expansion and displacement of the poor, the “public-private” model, and middle class visions of global modernity (Aggarwal 2006, Fernandes 2006, Chatterjee 2008, Dupot 2011). Infrastructure has been the prime mover in debates on the Special Economic Zones (SEZ), often linked to land acquisition s…
Vers une ville augmentée
Image d’ouverture Carte coloniale de New Delhi. Conception et plan d’urbanisme 1914. Remarquez la hiérarchie minutieuse des quartiers représentés par la cartographie coloniale. © Delhi State Archive Les villes indiennes ont connu l’émergence d’infrastructures informationnelles massives qui sont sans équivalent dans les autres sociétés postcoloniales. Identification biométrique, cartographie SIG, systèmes d’information sur les transports et caméra…
On the network you keep
Publicity, Transparency, and the Circulation Engine
Since the turn of the century, India has witnessed a growing number of entrapment events or media "stings" in which private, secret, and unknown events, relationships, acts, and structures are publicly revealed. Aided by the rapid spread of technological modernity and low-cost media gadgets such as mobile phones, the media sting has been carried out by print, TV, and new media; transparency campaigners; NGOs; political parties; social movements; …
Pirate Modernity
Using Delhi’s contemporary history as a site for reflection, Pirate Modernity moves from a detailed discussion of the technocratic design of the city by US planners in the 1950s, to the massive expansions after 1977, culminating in the urban crisis of the 1990s. As a practice, pirate modernity is an illicit form of urban globalization. Poorer urban populations increasingly inhabit non-legal spheres: unauthorized neighborhoods, squatter camps and …
Revisiting the Pirate Kingdom
Piracy is the allegory of media modernity – its immateriality and decisive disruption of sovereignty, authorship and property. Piracy, along with terrorism, is now a favoured term in the language of global fear, with its consequent attractive/destructive semantic overflow. For liberals and old‐style Marxists, piracy seems to allegorise an impure transgression, tainted by commerce and an inability to produce a discourse on itself. Pirate productio…
Ordinary Media
Media globalization
Recycling modernity
1999). Recycling modernity: Pirate electronic cultures in India. Third Text: Vol. 13, No. 47, pp. 59-65
Recycling modernity
1999). Recycling modernity: Pirate electronic cultures in India. Third Text: Vol. 13, No. 47, pp. 59-65
Hindu nationalism's crisis machine
This essay looks at Hindu nationalism's investment in a crisis machine linked closely to digital media networks in India. Media infrastructures have provided right-wing populism with new techniques for performative action and network-driven collective expansion. A crisis ontology inherent in digital media has helped Hindu nationalism to optimize techniques of mobilization across time and space. While ambulatory, media-enabled populations are subj…
Publicity, Transparency, and the Circulation Engine
Since the turn of the century, India has witnessed a growing number of entrapment events or media "stings" in which private, secret, and unknown events, relationships, acts, and structures are publicly revealed. Aided by the rapid spread of technological modernity and low-cost media gadgets such as mobile phones, the media sting has been carried out by print, TV, and new media; transparency campaigners; NGOs; political parties; social movements; …
Pirate Modernity
Using Delhi’s contemporary history as a site for reflection, Pirate Modernity moves from a detailed discussion of the technocratic design of the city by US planners in the 1950s, to the massive expansions after 1977, culminating in the urban crisis of the 1990s. As a practice, pirate modernity is an illicit form of urban globalization. Poorer urban populations increasingly inhabit non-legal spheres: unauthorized neighborhoods, squatter camps and …
Media globalization
The Postcolonial City in India. From Planning to Information
Infrastructure or what seemed to stand in for it, has served as the reference point for a series of debates in India in the last decade, including urban expansion and displacement of the poor, the “public-private” model, and middle class visions of global modernity (Aggarwal 2006, Fernandes 2006, Chatterjee 2008, Dupot 2011). Infrastructure has been the prime mover in debates on the Special Economic Zones (SEZ), often linked to land acquisition s…
Revisiting the Pirate Kingdom
Piracy is the allegory of media modernity – its immateriality and decisive disruption of sovereignty, authorship and property. Piracy, along with terrorism, is now a favoured term in the language of global fear, with its consequent attractive/destructive semantic overflow. For liberals and old‐style Marxists, piracy seems to allegorise an impure transgression, tainted by commerce and an inability to produce a discourse on itself. Pirate productio…
Recycling modernity
1999). Recycling modernity: Pirate electronic cultures in India. Third Text: Vol. 13, No. 47, pp. 59-65
Media globalization
Ordinary Media
Pirate Modernity
Using Delhi’s contemporary history as a site for reflection, Pirate Modernity moves from a detailed discussion of the technocratic design of the city by US planners in the 1950s, to the massive expansions after 1977, culminating in the urban crisis of the 1990s. As a practice, pirate modernity is an illicit form of urban globalization. Poorer urban populations increasingly inhabit non-legal spheres: unauthorized neighborhoods, squatter camps and …
Revisiting the Pirate Kingdom
Piracy is the allegory of media modernity – its immateriality and decisive disruption of sovereignty, authorship and property. Piracy, along with terrorism, is now a favoured term in the language of global fear, with its consequent attractive/destructive semantic overflow. For liberals and old‐style Marxists, piracy seems to allegorise an impure transgression, tainted by commerce and an inability to produce a discourse on itself. Pirate productio…
On the network you keep
Publicity, Transparency, and the Circulation Engine
Since the turn of the century, India has witnessed a growing number of entrapment events or media "stings" in which private, secret, and unknown events, relationships, acts, and structures are publicly revealed. Aided by the rapid spread of technological modernity and low-cost media gadgets such as mobile phones, the media sting has been carried out by print, TV, and new media; transparency campaigners; NGOs; political parties; social movements; …
The Postcolonial City in India. From Planning to Information
Infrastructure or what seemed to stand in for it, has served as the reference point for a series of debates in India in the last decade, including urban expansion and displacement of the poor, the “public-private” model, and middle class visions of global modernity (Aggarwal 2006, Fernandes 2006, Chatterjee 2008, Dupot 2011). Infrastructure has been the prime mover in debates on the Special Economic Zones (SEZ), often linked to land acquisition s…
Vers une ville augmentée
Image d’ouverture Carte coloniale de New Delhi. Conception et plan d’urbanisme 1914. Remarquez la hiérarchie minutieuse des quartiers représentés par la cartographie coloniale. © Delhi State Archive Les villes indiennes ont connu l’émergence d’infrastructures informationnelles massives qui sont sans équivalent dans les autres sociétés postcoloniales. Identification biométrique, cartographie SIG, systèmes d’information sur les transports et caméra…
Resilience and coevolution of preferential interdependent networks
Hindu nationalism's crisis machine
This essay looks at Hindu nationalism's investment in a crisis machine linked closely to digital media networks in India. Media infrastructures have provided right-wing populism with new techniques for performative action and network-driven collective expansion. A crisis ontology inherent in digital media has helped Hindu nationalism to optimize techniques of mobilization across time and space. While ambulatory, media-enabled populations are subj…
Analogue and Digital
Lively cities
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Modernity (4 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works)