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      History, Imagination and Technology

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      Media and Utopia book

      History, Imagination and Technology
      Edited ByArvind Rajagopal, Anupama Rao
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2016
      eBook Published 17 June 2019
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315091303
      Pages 374
      eBook ISBN 9781315091303
      Subjects Area Studies
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      Rajagopal, A., & Rao, A. (Eds.). (2016). Media and Utopia: History, Imagination and Technology (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315091303

      ABSTRACT

      Collective political projects have become ephemeral and are subject to radical forms of erasure through cooptation, division, redefinition or intimidation in present times. Media and Utopia responds to the resulting crisis of the social by investigating the links between mediation and political imagination. This volume addresses those utopian spaces historically constituted through media, and analyses the conditions that made them possible. Individual essays deal with non-Western histories of technopolitics through distinctive perspectives on how to conceive the relationship between social form, everyday life, and utopian possibility, and by examining a range of media formats and genres � from print, sound, and film to new media. With contributions from major scholars in the field, this book will be of interest to researchers and scholars of media studies, culture studies, sociology, modern South Asian history, and politics.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |16 pages

      Introduction

      ByArvind Rajagopal

      part I|62 pages

      Archive and imagination

      chapter 1|15 pages

      The cinematic soteriology of Bollywood 1

      ByArjun Appadurai

      chapter 2|22 pages

      Fetish power unbound

      A small history of ‘woman’ in Chinese cinema 1
      ByRey Chow

      chapter 3|23 pages

      Civil contract of photography in India 1

      ByChristopher Pinney

      part II|70 pages

      Genealogy

      chapter 4|22 pages

      Tracking utopias

      Technology, labour and secularism in Bombay cinema (1930s–1940s)
      ByDebashree Mukherjee

      chapter 5|30 pages

      National becoming, regional variation and everyday moments

      The Film Enquiry Committee, Uttar Pradesh and the student cinema-goer
      BySuzanne L. Schulz

      chapter 6|16 pages

      Museum as metaphor

      The politics of an imagined Ahmedabad
      ByPooja Thomas

      part III|86 pages

      Nostalgia

      chapter 7|20 pages

      The labour of self-making

      Youth service workers and postsocialist urban development in Kolkata 1
      BySaikat Maitra

      chapter 8|18 pages

      Nostalgia and the mediatic imagination in Tito's Yugoslavia

      ByGabika Bockaj

      chapter 9|20 pages

      Past futures of old media

      Gulammohammed Sheikh’s Kaavad: Travelling Shrine: Home
      ByKarin Zitzewitz

      chapter 10|26 pages

      Sonic ruptures

      Music, mobility and the media
      ByShikha Jhingan

      part IV|52 pages

      Newness

      chapter 11|16 pages

      Media and imagination

      Ramananda Chatterjee and his journals in three languages
      ByKalyan Chatterjee

      chapter 12|17 pages

      Radical intervention in dystopian media ecologies

      ByAnindya Sekhar Purakayastha, Saswat Samay Das

      chapter 13|17 pages

      Posthuman amusements

      Gaming and virtuality
      ByB. S. Bini

      part V|30 pages

      Word and the world

      chapter 14|28 pages

      Populist publics

      Print capitalism and crowd violence beyond liberal frameworks 1
      ByFrancis Cody

      part VI|37 pages

      Political theology

      chapter 15|35 pages

      On innocence

      Blasphemy, pan-Islam and the uneven mediation of utopia
      ByOn Barak
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