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@email-addr-hidden, 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
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> 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
>
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> 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.
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> 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@email-addr-hidden
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> or, contact -
> Publications
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> Distributors: Seagull Books, Delhi & Kolkata (in
> India) and Autonomedia, New York (USA)
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> 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
> "ÂBolti 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 MartÃnez 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
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