'This colloquium, early in the history of the Information and Society Research Cluster at Sarai-CSDS, posits that the "sensor-census-censor" triad may be a useful way in which the histories and contemporary realities of South Asia and Europe may be investigated. Here we mean the historic affinities, networks and resonances pertinent to the traffic of information between the colony and the metropolis, especially with regard to the operations of knowledge as power. We also point towards the contemporary (and projected) operations of biometric technologies, internet filtering systems, networked surveillance, data retrieval and outsourcing systems that inflect the global traffic in information today.' - excerpt from Introduction
Includes brief biographies of conference participants.
The entire publication is available for download here: http://www.sarai.net/publications/occasional/sensor-census-censor
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English
2007
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conference proceedings,
report
Introduction
Rapporteur's Note - Smriti VOHRA
Day 1
Panel 1: Information, Mobility and Exclusion: Borders, Passports and Identification Documents
Passport, Ticket and Rubber Stamp: The 'problem of the pauper Hajji', c. 1882-1926 - Radhika SINGHA
Passports, Literacy, Phantasm: The States of Writing Nation - Vazira Fazila Yacoobali ZAMINDAR
Panel 2: Monitoring Surveillance
Exposure: Surveillance and the Political Economy of Interiority - Kirstie BALL
Machetes, Electrodes and Databases - Sam DE SILVA
Security Culture and the Economy of Fear - Konrad BECKER
Panel 3: The Artist as Information Practitioner
Archival Malpractice and Counter-Strategies - Charles MEREWETHER
Information versus Dissemination: Artistic and Activist Strategies of Information Practice - Ewen CHARDRONNET
Across Borders and beyond Definitions: Creating Concepts and Syndicating Content - Florian SCHNEIDER
Keynote: Histories of Identification
Why Did Fingerprinting Emerge in Colonial India? Governmentality, Surveillance and the Fear of the 'Native' - Chandak SENGOOPTA
Day 2
Keynote: The Record of Power
Seeing Like a State: State Controls in Europe Since 1500 - Leo LUCASSEN
Panel 2: The Daily Life of Information
From the Chowkeydari Act to Biometric Identification: Passages from the History of the Information State in India - Taha MEHMOOD
Ghareeb Aadmi ko Kaun Dekhta Hai (Who Sees the Poor Person)? The Khullam-Khulla (Transparency) Principle and Beyond on the Streets of Delhi - Aman SETHI
Documents as Date-Lines: The Making and Unmaking of Urban Settlements - Shveta SARDA
Panel 3: Neo-Liberal Governmentality and Risk: Information and Surveillance in India - Uma Maheshwari KALPAGAM
Panel 4: Truth, Transmission and Technology
The Technology of Telegraphy and the Telegraphy of Technology: Magic and Speculation in the First Half of the Last Century - Deep Kanta LAHIRI-CHAUDHURI
...And Nothing But the Truth: So Help Me Science - Lawrence LIANG
Unofficial Secrets Act: The Administration of Certainty and Ambiguity - Shuddhabrata SENGUPTA
Keynote: Histories of Information
Illegibility: Reading and Insecurity in 19th-Century Law and Government - Jane CAPLAN
Day 3
Panel 1: Censorship and Memory
Conversing the Cut: A Chronicle of Censorship in Egyptian Cinema - Babak AFRASSIABI
The Silence of the Arabs - Mansour JACOUBI
Listening in the Archive, Listening for the Archive: History, Memory and the Archive - Sadan JHA
Panel 2: Network Effects
Imagined Networks: Rhetoric, Poetics and Politics in Electronic Communities and Online Networks - Wendy CHUN
Resisting System Subjectification: Paranoia as a Culturally Specific Affect of Network Use - Tapio MAKELA
Panel 3: The Accession Register: Information Abundance, Scarcity and Libraries
The Class Library of Babel: Digital Librarianship and Copyright Circumvention - Sebastian LUTGERT
Memoirs of Information Work - Avinash JHA
'Because It's There! Because I Can!' Desire and Information Economies of Abundance - Felix STALDER
Dialogue
Holes, Erasures, Silences: Archives and Absences - Shahid AMIN, Mahmood FAROOQUI
Media/Art Works
Ectropy Index
Temporary Loss of Consciousness
KhirkeeYaan
Conversing the Cut
The Dilemma of the Techno-Hero
Coda
Sensor-Census-Censor: An International Colloquium on Information, Society, History and Politics: A Report
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