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File Justice and Difference
by Asha Achuthan — last modified Dec 05, 2008 10:28 AM
This is a version of the paper by Prof. Shefali Moitra that formed the basis for her talk at CIS on November 14, 2008.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Projects / A series of podcasts on Sofware Patents
Blog Entry We, the Cyborgs: Challenges for the Future of being Human
by Asha Achuthan — published Mar 22, 2012 — last modified Oct 24, 2015 01:42 PM — filed under: , , ,
The Cyborg - a cybernetique organism which is a combination of the biological and the technological – has been at the centre of discourse around digital technologies. Especially with wearable computing and ubiquitous access to the digital world, there has been an increased concern that very ways in which we understand questions of life, human body and the presence and role of technologies in our worlds, are changing. In just the last few years, we have seen extraordinary measures – the successful production of synthetic bacteria, artificial intelligence that can be programmed to simulate human conditions like empathy and temperament, and massive mobilisation of people around the world, to fight against the injustices and inequities of their immediate environments.
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Unpacking technology - beginnings
by Asha Achuthan — published Oct 20, 2008 — last modified Oct 31, 2008 09:47 AM — filed under: ,
This is a work-in-progress that seeks to inaugurate a field of critical technology studies with the women-technology relationship as a unique entry point of investigation.
Located in RAW / … / Blogs / Re:Wiring Bodies
of doctors and maps - Snippet one
by Asha Achuthan — published Nov 05, 2008 — last modified Aug 03, 2011 09:44 AM — filed under: , , ,
The clinic is not what it was. It is highly technologized, flooded with information systems. But what of the relationships it traditionally supported, between patient and doctor?
Located in RAW / … / Blogs / Re:Wiring Bodies
of doctors and maps - Snippet two
by Asha Achuthan — published Nov 05, 2008 — last modified Aug 03, 2011 09:45 AM — filed under: , , ,
This may seem like a careless swipe at the volumes of critique of technology. And yet ... I need to know ...
Located in RAW / … / Blogs / Re:Wiring Bodies
Justice and Difference - the first talk in 'the monster album of feminist stories'
by Asha Achuthan — published Dec 04, 2008 — last modified Aug 03, 2011 09:43 AM — filed under: , ,
CIS and 'the monster album of feminist stories', in relation to the Rewiring Bodies project by Asha Achuthan, hosted the first of a series of talks on cognizing feminism at the CIS premises on Cunningham Road on 14th November, 2008.
Located in RAW / … / Blogs / Re:Wiring Bodies
Rewiring Bodies: Technology and the Nationalist Moment [1]
by Asha Achuthan — published Feb 17, 2009 — last modified Aug 03, 2011 09:47 AM — filed under: , , ,
This is the second post in a series by Asha Achuthan on her project, Rewiring Bodies. In this blog entry, Asha looks at the trajectory of responses to technology in India to understand the genesis of the assumption that the subjects of technology are separate from the tool, machine, or instrument.
Located in RAW / … / Blogs / Re:Wiring Bodies
Rewiring Bodies: Technology and the Nationalist Moment [2]
by Asha Achuthan — published Feb 25, 2009 — last modified Aug 03, 2011 09:47 AM — filed under: , , ,
This is the third in a series of posts on Asha Achuthan's Rewiring Bodies project. In this post, Asha looks at the Tagore-Gandhi debates on technology to throw some light on the question of whether there was a nationalist alternative to the technology offered by the West.
Located in RAW / … / Blogs / Re:Wiring Bodies
The (Postcolonial) Marxist Shift in Response to Technology
by Asha Achuthan — published Mar 27, 2009 — last modified Aug 03, 2011 09:47 AM — filed under: , , ,
In her previous post, Asha Achuthan discussed, through the Gandhi-Tagore debates, the responses to science and technology that did not follow the dominant Marxist-nationalist positions. Later Marxist-postcolonial approaches to science and responses to technology were conflated in anti-technology arguments, particularly in development. In this post, the fifth in a series on her project, she will briefly trace the 1980s shift in Marxist thinking in India as a way of approaching the shift in the science and technology question. This exercise will reveal the ambivalence in Marxist practice toward continuing associations between the ‘rational-scientific’ on the one hand and the ‘revolutionary’ on the other.
Located in RAW / … / Blogs / Re:Wiring Bodies
Postcolonial Hybridity and the ‘Terrors of Technology’ Argument
by Asha Achuthan — published Apr 15, 2009 — last modified Aug 03, 2011 09:45 AM — filed under: , , ,
In the last couple of posts, Asha Achuthan has been building towards an understanding of how the anti-technology arguments in India have been posed, in the nationalist and Marxist positions. She goes on, in this sixth post documenting her project, to look at the arguments put out by the postcolonial school, their appropriation of Marxist terminology, their stances against Marxism in responding to science and technology in general, and the implications of these arguments for other fields of inquiry.
Located in RAW / … / Blogs / Re:Wiring Bodies
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