Tuesday, April 19, 2011

stanford: Wednesday 20th April @ 4 pm: Arvind Rajagopal, The Life of the Image in the Time of the Nation: Visual Culture from Bazaar Art to Satellite Television

apr 18th, 2011 CE

TOXIC WARNING: i just got a message that this fellow is one of the FOIL (forum of indian leftists) types, so extreme caution is advised if you go to this. you will be subjected to extreme bigotry and hatred.

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From: Sangeeta Mediratta
Wednesday 20th April, Encina Hall West, Room 208, 4 pm


Arvind Rajagopal, The Life of the Image in the Time of the Nation: Visual Culture from Bazaar Art to Satellite Television



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Visuality does not always work in the ways Enlightenment thinkers assumed: greater visibility in public does not ensure more rationality, nor does a greater density of information flow assure less violence or more democratization. On the one hand, there are those who assert the demystifying gaze of the modern imagination, according to which “seeing is believing.” On the other hand, we can observe the enchantment or glamor in what millions behold, for which the opposite may be true, i.e., “believing is seeing.” South Asia provides a useful site for pursuing questions that arise in such discussions given its manifestly heterogeneous visual practices alongside growing mass media that introduces new regimes of surveillance and regulation. The examples I  consider in my discussion will range from bazaar art to satellite television.

Arvind Rajagopal is Professor of Media Studies at NYU, and is an affiliated faculty in the Departments of Sociology, and Social and Cultural Analysis. In the year 2010-11, he is a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. 
His books include Politics After Television: Hindu Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Public in India (Cambridge, 2001), which won the Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Prize from the Association of Asian Studies and the Daniel Griffiths Prize at NYU, both in 2003, and The Indian Public Sphere: Structure and Transformation (Oxford, 2009). He has won awards from the MacArthur and Rockefeller Foundations, and has been a Member in the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC. In addition to his scholarly writing, he has also published in forums such the SSRC’s Immanent Frame and opendemocracy.net, and in newspapers and periodicals.

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