This is in continuation of the previous posting announcing the print and web publication of Sarai Reader 05 : Bare Acts. There was an inadvertent error about the URL of the online version of the book on the Sarai website. The correct address is http://www.sarai.net/journal/reader_05.html and not http://www.sarai.net/journal/reader5.html > > > Dear All, > > We are happy to announce the print and web > publication of Sarai Reader 05 : 'Bare Acts' . > Please find more details about the book below. > > We would welcome responses, reviews and critiques > of the publication, and discussions based on its > contents. If you would like to write a review of > the book, and wish to obtain a review copy, do > write to publications@xxxxxxxxx, mentioning > details of the publication where the review will > appear, and when it is likely to be published. > The contents of the book may also be translated > into other languages, and published elsewhere. > We, and the authors, would like to be informed. > > Looking forward to your responses > > The Editorial Collective, Sarai Reader Series > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > -------------------------------- > Sarai READER 05: BARE ACTS > > Editors: Monica Narula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Jeebesh Bagchi + Geert > Lovink Guest Editor: Lawrence Liang > > Sarai Reader Series Editorial Collective: Monica > Narula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Ravi Sundaram, > Ravi S. Vasudevan, Awadhendra Sharan, Jeebesh > Bagchi + Geert Lovink > > Published by the Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing > Societies, Delhi, 2005 [cc] > Produced and Designed at the Sarai Media Lab, Delhi > > ISBN 81-901429-5-X > 584 pages, 14.5cm X 21cm > Paperback: Rs. 350, US$ 20, Euro 20 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > ---------------- > Bare Acts > > This year, the Sarai Reader looks at 'Acts' as > instruments of legislation, at things within and > outside the law, and at 'acts' as different ways > of 'doing' things in society and culture. Several > texts and image-essays echo and complement themes > that have emerged in earlier readers. Piracy, > borders, surveillance, claims to authority and > entitlement, the language of expertise, the legal > regulation of sexual behaviour and trespasses of > various kinds have featured prominently in > previous Readers. This collection foregrounds > these issues in a way that hopes to continue to > provoke rigorous engagement and reflection. > > The 'Bare Act' is an expression used to specify > the content of law, bereft of any interpretative > gloss. In legal libraries in India and many parts > of the English-speaking world, a Bare Act is a > document that simply codifies a law without > annotation or commentary. The 'Bare Act' is > legality pared down to its textual essence. It > expresses only what the law does, and what it can > do. > > The enactment of law, however, is less a matter > of reading the letter of the law, and more a > matter of augmenting or eroding the textual > foundation through the acts of interpretation, > negotiation, disputation and witnessing. The law > and practices within and outside stand in > relation to a meta legal domain that can be said > to embrace acts and actions in all their depth, > intensity and substantive generality. This too is > a stage set for the performance of 'bare acts', > of what we might call 'naked deeds' - actions > shorn of everything other than what is contained > in a verb. > > The 'Bare Act' that encrypts the letter of the > law, the wire frame structure that demands the > fleshing out of interpretation, and the 'bare > act' that expresses and contains the stripped > down kernel of an act, of something that is done, > are both expressions that face each other in a > relationship of tense reflection and intimate > alterity. Bare Acts generate bare acts, and vice > versa. 'Bare Acts', the fifth Sarai Reader, > proposes to be a considered examination of this > troubled mirror image. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > ---------------- > See below for the complete table of contents. The > complete text of 'Bare Acts', like the entire > contents of previous readers, is available for > free browsing and download as pdf files at > http://www.sarai.net/journal/reader5.html > > For Purchase, Distribution and Other Enquiries, mail to - > publications@xxxxxxxxx > > or, contact - > Publications > Sarai, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies > 29, Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054, India > Tel : (+91) 11 2396 0040 > http://www.sarai.net > E mail : dak@xxxxxxxxx > > Distributors: Seagull Books, Delhi & Kolkata (in > India) and Autonomedia, New York (USA) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > -------------------------------- > TABLE OF CONTENTS OF SARAI READER 05 : BARE ACTS > > PREFACE - vi > > ARGUMENTS - 1 > Invitation - Sarai Reader Editorial Collective - 2 > Porous Legalities and Avenues of Participation - Lawrence Liang - 6 > "Ã?Â?Bolti Band (SILENCED)!" - Clifton D' Rozario - 18 > Lepers, Witches and Infidels & It's a Bug's Life - Francesca da > Rimini - 26 Rested - Colette Mazabrard - 39 > > DISPUTATIONS - 45 > Of Butchers and Policemen: Law, Justice and Economies of Anxiety - > Gunalan Nadarajan - 46 > Down by Law: A Critique for the 21st Century - Alexander Karschnia - > 57 'New' Delhi: Fashioning an Urban Environment through Science and > Law - Awadhendra Sharan - 69 > Improbablevoices.net: An Improbable Monument to > Witnessing and the Ethics of Trespass - > Sharon Daniel - 78 > > TRESPASSES - 95 > The Discovery of the Fifth World: Stealth Countries and Logo Nations - > Daniel van der Velden, Tina Clausmeyer, Vinca Kruk, Adriaan Mellegers > (Meta Haven Project) - 96 > Transcoding Sovereignty: Naked Bandit/Here, Not > Here/White Sovereign - KR + CF - 111 > SMS to Passport - Vishwajyoti Ghosh - 115 > The Strange Case of Qays Al Kareem - Tripta Wahi - 123 > Marginalia - Kai Friese - 129 > On Smugglers, Pirates and Aroma Makers - Ursula Biemann - 145 > Sponge Borders - Guido Cimadomo + Pilar MartÃ?Ânez Ponce - 150 > Notes on the Disappeared: Towards a Visual Language of Resistance - > Chitra Ganesh + Mariam Ghani - 154 > Dreams and Disguises, As Usual - Raqs Media Collective - 162 > > HACKS - 176 > Trespasses of the State: Ministering to > Theological Dilemmas through the > Copyright/Trademark - Naveeda Khan - 178 > Harmony or Discord? TRIPS, China, and Overlapping > Sovereignties - Shujen Wang - 189 > Innovating Piracy: The Bare Act of Stealing, and > Shaping the Future - Menso Heus - 202 > Is Hacking Illegal? - Yuwei Lin + David Beer - 205 > Three Proposals for a Real Democracy: Information-Sharing to a > Different Tune - > Brian Holmes - 215 > Roots Culture: Free Software Vibrations "inna Babylon" - Armin > Medosch - 222 > ENCROACHMENTS - 241 > Touts, Pirates and Ghosts - Solomon Benjamin - 242 > Daily Journey - Satyajit Pande - 255 > Complicating the City: Media Itineraries - Media Researchers @ Sarai > - 258 Begum Samru and the Security Guard - Anand Vivek Taneja - 287 > My Driving Master: A Story of Everyday Trespasses - Zainab Bawa - 297 > Naye Qanoon (New Laws) - 301 > > ANNOTATIONS - 305 > Vis-Ã? -Visage - I. Helen Jilavu - 306 > Cybermohalla Logs/Acts/Texts - CM Labs @ LNJP-DP-NM - 308 > > NEGOTIATIONS - 323 > The Act of Leisure - Iram Ghufran + Taha Mehmood - 325 > Surveillance, Performance, Self-Surveillance: Interview with Jill > Magid - Geert Lovink - 339 > Living Between Laws - Ninad Pandit - 348 > Negotiating Territory - Ateya Khorakiwala - 354 > > RECORDS - 359 > Tis Hazari Diaries - Chander Nigam - 360 > Bare Acts and Collective Explorations: The MKSS > Experience with the Right to Information - Preeti > Sampat + Nikhil Dey - 385 > > TRIALS - 397 > Zimbabwe's 'New Clothes': Identity and Power > Among Displaced Farm Workers - Amy R. West + > Blair Rutherford - 398 > Standardised, Packaged, Ready for Consumption - Ravi Agarwal - 412 > The Act of Instruction - Jan Ritsema - 420 > > VIOLATIONS - 427 > Womanhood Laid Bare: How Katherine Mayo and > Manoda Devi Challenged Indian Public Morality - > Alice Albinia - 428 > Literature and the Limits of Law: Crime, Guilt > and Agency in Premchand's Ghaban - > Ulka S. Anjaria - 437 > The Honourable Murder: The Trial of Kawas > Maneckshaw Nanavati - Aarti Sethi - 444 > Judicial Extract - 454 > Representing a Woman's Story: Explicit Film and > the Efficacy of Censorship in Japan - Hikari Hori > - 457 > The Queer Case of Section 377 - Siddharth Narrain - 466 > > ASSAULTS - 471 > "For God's Sake, Be Objective!" - Somnath Batabyal - 472 > Another 9/11, Another Act of Terror: The 'Embedded Disorder' of the > AFSPA - A. Bimol Akoijam - 481 > Warporn Warpunk! Autonomous Videopoesis in Wartime - Matteo > Pasquinelli - 492 'First, Do No Harm...': Ensuring Humanitarian > Military Interventions - Bikram Jeet Batra - 500 > War Cake - Linda F. Beekman - 511 > > DISSENSIONS - 515 > The Law of the Mother: Soldiers' Mothers and the Post-Soviet Army - > Irina Aristarkhova - 516 > Naked Protest and the Politics of Personalism - Isaac Souweine - 526 > Analytical World Statistics Wall Chart, 2003 - Louise Kolff - 537 > A Comparative Anatomy of Post-Mortem Acts - Smriti Vohra - 540 > > ALT/OPTION - 551 > The Accidental Activist - Fredrik Svensk + Kristoffer Gansing - 552 > 'Our'chitecture - Jayson Claude - 559 > Sex Workers' Manifesto - Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, Kolkata - > 564 Bare Wiring - Sophea Lerner - 572 > > Notes on Contributors - 574 > Image and Photo Credits - 581 > ---------------------------------------------- > > -- > Monica Narula [Raqs Media Collective] > Sarai-CSDS > 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054 > www.raqsmediacollective.net > www.sarai.net > _________________________________________ > reader-list: an open discussion list on media and the city. > Critiques & Collaborations > To subscribe: send an email to reader-list-request@xxxxxxxxx with > subscribe in > the subject header. > List archive: <https://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/> >
