“With The News Event being read across the disciplines, a symposium seemed an appropriate forum to discuss broader issues of technopolitics and its relationship to politics as such. Taken together, the reflections assembled here each propose conceptual approaches to media based on studies in India that reach toward broader horizons of application.“
Read More“The work of factual truth remains central here: as witness, testimony, or material traces demanding forensic analysis and broader circulation despite the weakness of such forms of public representation in contemporary political “realism” at the level of the state, leaving aside the betrayal of international law.”
Read More“There is no media, or narrative, that is not intersected by the dynamic of state power, often enough manifested in the arbitrary application of law. In the event, certain narratives are also encouraged and escape all legal scrutiny. To be clear, there is still political “viral content” that may slip through the cracks, but more often such content, which showcases a spectacle like the “midnight arrest” is devoid of any immediate political implications.”
Read More“This, then, is how mediated circuits of actual and virtual bodies literally “hit the ground” in one kind of choreographic oeuvre, one genre of political mise-en-scène that modulates and supplements spaces of appearance via invitations to embodied style and presence within theme-park-like, propaganda-heavy communicative environments.”
Read More“The understanding of the industry that if it has to grow its market within India it has to toe the political line of the BJP shows that the government’s management of the political remains central to both formal policy conversations and informal pressures on content creators and OTT services. In this scheme of things, where government bodies positioning themselves as neutral mediators and public watchdogs together collude in which streaming becomes a space where the enmeshment of corporate and government interest decides what the public watches. Hence, public interest itself is marginalized.”
Read More“Politics is in a crisis because the only firmament of change seems to be the globalized market. What comes into being is a political society of fierce transactions rather than just the state-civil society dyadic arrangement of civic and legislative conversation.”
Read More“The emergence of the influencer as an arbiter of visibility should not be seen as a moment that will pass. What we have in India is a new architecture of public accountability that allows parties and their leaders like to invest in charismatic politics over substance. “
Read More“What kinds of media epistemic practices constitute a leak of secret information for the production of truth? And what dominant affective and knowledge formations do they contest?”
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