Amit S Rai
Biographic Data
| ID | 85382 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amit S Rai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amit S |
| FAMILY NAME | Rai |
| SIGNATURE | RAI A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 285 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
DIY Media in South Asia
The affect of Jugaad: Frugal innovation and postcolonial practice in India's mobile phone ecology
Previous studies have identified affect as constitutive of and woven into everyday life. Less work has focused on how affect is designed and produced through consumer services and goods to modulate human-technical assemblages for commercial and economic ends. In this paper, I draw on social geography, affect studies, and postcolonial media studies to analyse value creation in the Indian mobile phone market, specifically in the deployment of an In…
On the Jugaad Image: Embodying the Mobile Phone in India
This essay uses media assemblage analysis to pose ontological questions of the embodiment of mobile phone technologies. The name for this throughout much of South Asia is jugaad, meaning a pragmatic workaround. In other words, this essay analyzes mobile telephony in India by foregrounding a sensorial ethics of habituation as central to understanding contemporary media assemblages. As one of the most competitive and fastest growing mobile markets …
Race Racing: Four Theses on Race and Intensity
Race Racing: Four Theses on Race and Intensity Amit S. Rai (bio) In what follows I attempt to wrest the concept of race away from reactive dialectics and give it its full positivity. I desire, in other words, to make an affirmation of becoming in the processes of race racing. By "race racing" I don't mean a faster conception of race, but it does involve diagramming speeds as intensive rates and gradients internal to assemblages of technology and …
For an ethnography toward the virtual: Deleuze's transcendental empiricism and nonlinear ImMedia
In this paper, I pursue a method of ethnographic media research that foregrounds the relation of embodied experience to what Gilles Deleuze called ‘transcendental empiricism.’ For Deleuze the critique of Kant's theory of a transcendental subject grounding space-time moves thought toward an intuition of the time of becoming, the being of time itself: it is not we who constitute time, but time constitutes and reconstitutes subjectivity. The aim of …
Intensive Bollywood: Media and nonlinear history in South Asia
This special issue of South Asian Popular Culture came about while the two editors, Priya Jha and Amit S. Rai, were in India researching respectively the transnational dimensions of Hindi cinema an
Sympathetic Mutations: Monstrous Sympathies
Every Citizen Is a Cop Without the Uniform: The Populist Outsider in Bollywood's New Angry Young Man Genre
This essay explores the question of sexualization in Hindi-Urdu cinema by arguing for an analysis of the effects of the movement-image-sound as sets of habituations at the level of the sub-individual, in the shocks both disrupting and producing sensorimotor schemas, and thus for a media assemblages approach to the new angry young man genre in Bollywood that thinks through the politico-ontological implication of flashbacks and interruptions in the…
Of monsters: Biopower, terrorism and excess in genealogies of monstrosity
Monsters gave birth to modernity: those unnamable figures of horror and fascination shadow civilization as its constitutive and abjected discontent. In Europe, from the late eighteenth century on, the term monstrosity mobilized a set of discursive practices that tied racial and sexual deviancy to an overall apparatus of discipline, and, later in the nineteenth century, to the emergence of biopolitics. This article draws a history of monstrosity t…
The Remaking of a Model Minority
Rule of Sympathy
The Rule of Sympathy is a social and historical critique of sympathy in British discourse in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Although initially associated with feminized or effeminat
Conclusion
This study has urged a rethinking of the history of sentiment through technologies of power and figurations of difference. I have lingered over those moments in sentimental fiction, parliamentary debates, moral philosophy, slave narratives and Hindu reformist discourses when sympathy seems to take the reader beyond the pale of humanity and civilization, and so (ex)poses the naturalness or givenness not only of the sympathetic relation but also of…
Monster, Terrorist, Fag: The War on Terrorism and the Production of Docile Patriots
Research Article| September 01 2002 Monster, Terrorist, Fag: The War on Terrorism and the Production of Docile Patriots Jasbir K. Puar; Jasbir K. Puar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Amit S. Rai Amit S. Rai Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2002) 20 (3 (72)): 117-148. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-20-3_72-117 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citatio…
India On-line: Electronic Bulletin Boards and the Construction of a Diasporic Hindu Identity
Diaspora 4:1 1995 India On-line: Electronic Bulletin Boards and the Construction of a Diasporic Hindu Identity Amit S. Rai New School for Social Research The Hindu diaspora is being written through the lines—the techno-informational lines of electronic bulletin boards. These "nets" provide a space for South Asian Hindus to construct and contest identities that are doubly marked by the nightmare of all the dead generations—what we diasporics remem…
A Lying Virtue: Ruskin, Gandhi and the Simplicity of Use Value
Monster, Terrorist, Fag: The War on Terrorism and the Production of Docile Patriots
Research Article| September 01 2002 Monster, Terrorist, Fag: The War on Terrorism and the Production of Docile Patriots Jasbir K. Puar; Jasbir K. Puar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Amit S. Rai Amit S. Rai Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2002) 20 (3 (72)): 117-148. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-20-3_72-117 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citatio…
Of monsters: Biopower, terrorism and excess in genealogies of monstrosity
Monsters gave birth to modernity: those unnamable figures of horror and fascination shadow civilization as its constitutive and abjected discontent. In Europe, from the late eighteenth century on, the term monstrosity mobilized a set of discursive practices that tied racial and sexual deviancy to an overall apparatus of discipline, and, later in the nineteenth century, to the emergence of biopolitics. This article draws a history of monstrosity t…
The Remaking of a Model Minority
India On-line: Electronic Bulletin Boards and the Construction of a Diasporic Hindu Identity
Diaspora 4:1 1995 India On-line: Electronic Bulletin Boards and the Construction of a Diasporic Hindu Identity Amit S. Rai New School for Social Research The Hindu diaspora is being written through the lines—the techno-informational lines of electronic bulletin boards. These "nets" provide a space for South Asian Hindus to construct and contest identities that are doubly marked by the nightmare of all the dead generations—what we diasporics remem…
The affect of Jugaad: Frugal innovation and postcolonial practice in India's mobile phone ecology
Previous studies have identified affect as constitutive of and woven into everyday life. Less work has focused on how affect is designed and produced through consumer services and goods to modulate human-technical assemblages for commercial and economic ends. In this paper, I draw on social geography, affect studies, and postcolonial media studies to analyse value creation in the Indian mobile phone market, specifically in the deployment of an In…
Race Racing: Four Theses on Race and Intensity
Race Racing: Four Theses on Race and Intensity Amit S. Rai (bio) In what follows I attempt to wrest the concept of race away from reactive dialectics and give it its full positivity. I desire, in other words, to make an affirmation of becoming in the processes of race racing. By "race racing" I don't mean a faster conception of race, but it does involve diagramming speeds as intensive rates and gradients internal to assemblages of technology and …
For an ethnography toward the virtual: Deleuze's transcendental empiricism and nonlinear ImMedia
In this paper, I pursue a method of ethnographic media research that foregrounds the relation of embodied experience to what Gilles Deleuze called ‘transcendental empiricism.’ For Deleuze the critique of Kant's theory of a transcendental subject grounding space-time moves thought toward an intuition of the time of becoming, the being of time itself: it is not we who constitute time, but time constitutes and reconstitutes subjectivity. The aim of …
Intensive Bollywood: Media and nonlinear history in South Asia
This special issue of South Asian Popular Culture came about while the two editors, Priya Jha and Amit S. Rai, were in India researching respectively the transnational dimensions of Hindi cinema an
A Lying Virtue: Ruskin, Gandhi and the Simplicity of Use Value
India On-line: Electronic Bulletin Boards and the Construction of a Diasporic Hindu Identity
Diaspora 4:1 1995 India On-line: Electronic Bulletin Boards and the Construction of a Diasporic Hindu Identity Amit S. Rai New School for Social Research The Hindu diaspora is being written through the lines—the techno-informational lines of electronic bulletin boards. These "nets" provide a space for South Asian Hindus to construct and contest identities that are doubly marked by the nightmare of all the dead generations—what we diasporics remem…
Rule of Sympathy
The Rule of Sympathy is a social and historical critique of sympathy in British discourse in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Although initially associated with feminized or effeminat
Conclusion
This study has urged a rethinking of the history of sentiment through technologies of power and figurations of difference. I have lingered over those moments in sentimental fiction, parliamentary debates, moral philosophy, slave narratives and Hindu reformist discourses when sympathy seems to take the reader beyond the pale of humanity and civilization, and so (ex)poses the naturalness or givenness not only of the sympathetic relation but also of…
Monster, Terrorist, Fag: The War on Terrorism and the Production of Docile Patriots
Research Article| September 01 2002 Monster, Terrorist, Fag: The War on Terrorism and the Production of Docile Patriots Jasbir K. Puar; Jasbir K. Puar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Amit S. Rai Amit S. Rai Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2002) 20 (3 (72)): 117-148. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-20-3_72-117 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citatio…
Of monsters: Biopower, terrorism and excess in genealogies of monstrosity
Monsters gave birth to modernity: those unnamable figures of horror and fascination shadow civilization as its constitutive and abjected discontent. In Europe, from the late eighteenth century on, the term monstrosity mobilized a set of discursive practices that tied racial and sexual deviancy to an overall apparatus of discipline, and, later in the nineteenth century, to the emergence of biopolitics. This article draws a history of monstrosity t…
The Remaking of a Model Minority
Every Citizen Is a Cop Without the Uniform: The Populist Outsider in Bollywood's New Angry Young Man Genre
This essay explores the question of sexualization in Hindi-Urdu cinema by arguing for an analysis of the effects of the movement-image-sound as sets of habituations at the level of the sub-individual, in the shocks both disrupting and producing sensorimotor schemas, and thus for a media assemblages approach to the new angry young man genre in Bollywood that thinks through the politico-ontological implication of flashbacks and interruptions in the…
Sympathetic Mutations: Monstrous Sympathies
For an ethnography toward the virtual: Deleuze's transcendental empiricism and nonlinear ImMedia
In this paper, I pursue a method of ethnographic media research that foregrounds the relation of embodied experience to what Gilles Deleuze called ‘transcendental empiricism.’ For Deleuze the critique of Kant's theory of a transcendental subject grounding space-time moves thought toward an intuition of the time of becoming, the being of time itself: it is not we who constitute time, but time constitutes and reconstitutes subjectivity. The aim of …
Intensive Bollywood: Media and nonlinear history in South Asia
This special issue of South Asian Popular Culture came about while the two editors, Priya Jha and Amit S. Rai, were in India researching respectively the transnational dimensions of Hindi cinema an
On the Jugaad Image: Embodying the Mobile Phone in India
This essay uses media assemblage analysis to pose ontological questions of the embodiment of mobile phone technologies. The name for this throughout much of South Asia is jugaad, meaning a pragmatic workaround. In other words, this essay analyzes mobile telephony in India by foregrounding a sensorial ethics of habituation as central to understanding contemporary media assemblages. As one of the most competitive and fastest growing mobile markets …
Race Racing: Four Theses on Race and Intensity
Race Racing: Four Theses on Race and Intensity Amit S. Rai (bio) In what follows I attempt to wrest the concept of race away from reactive dialectics and give it its full positivity. I desire, in other words, to make an affirmation of becoming in the processes of race racing. By "race racing" I don't mean a faster conception of race, but it does involve diagramming speeds as intensive rates and gradients internal to assemblages of technology and …
The affect of Jugaad: Frugal innovation and postcolonial practice in India's mobile phone ecology
Previous studies have identified affect as constitutive of and woven into everyday life. Less work has focused on how affect is designed and produced through consumer services and goods to modulate human-technical assemblages for commercial and economic ends. In this paper, I draw on social geography, affect studies, and postcolonial media studies to analyse value creation in the Indian mobile phone market, specifically in the deployment of an In…
DIY Media in South Asia
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