sarai Reader- 08: Fear

Front Matter
......Page 1
Contents
......Page 3
Preface
by The Editorial Collective......Page 5
PART 1:
FACING FEAR......Page 7
1. Ventilator by Ivana Franke
......Page 9
2. Fear Is a Hieroglyph Fractal Repeated on Different Scales by Claudia Roselli
......Page 14
3. Temporary Authoritarian Zone by John Armitage
......Page 24
4. Politics, the State and the Tragedy of Fear:

Connected Fragments from Europe to South Asia by Atul Mishra......Page 26
5. Symptomatic Values beyond the Romantic by Markus Miessen
......Page 33
6. fear/fIr / ll/fIe(r)/ n. uncountable or countable by Andrés de Santiago
Areizaga......Page 37
7. Just Fear Not Just Reason by Rahul Govind
......Page 42
8. Industrial Landscapes by Media Lab, Jadavpur University
......Page 46
PART 2:
SCARE QUOTES......Page 53
9. Who’s Afraid of Voting?
The Inexpressible Nature of Some Fears by Subuhi Juwani
......Page 54
10. My Fear Begins Where Your Fear Ends by Ambarien Alqadar
......Page 59
11. When a People Settle/Re-Settle… by Zainab Bawa
......Page 62
12. The Cow Ate It Up by Amitabh Kumar
......Page 72
PART 3:
AFRAID ATLAS......Page 83
13. Bethlehem by
Jonathan Watkins......Page 84
14. Otondro Prohori
Guarding Who? Against What? by Naeem Mohaiemen
......Page 87
15. Conversation on Locating Conflict by Nanna Heidenreich and Nicole Wolf
......Page 97
16. Dirt and Dust:
A Lover’s Letter by F. Zahir Mibineh
......Page 105
17. Within the Circle of Fear:
Field Notes from Iraqi Kurdistan by Francesca Recchia
......Page 120
18. Fear Yourself More than the Other by Agon Hamza
......Page 124
19. On Idealists and Realists:  A Memory of Fear, Silence and the
1990s Yugoslav Wars by Maja Petrović-Šteger......Page 129
20. Graves: Buried Evidence from Kashmir by Angana
P. Chatterji, Parvez Imroz, Gautam Navlakha, Zahir-Ud-Din, Mihir Desai, Khurram Parvez......Page 136
21. Fear, Sexuality and the Future:
Thinking Sex (Panic), Monstrosity and Prostitution by Svati P. Shah
......Page 148
22. Police States, Anthropology
and Human Rights by Nandini Sundar
......Page 155
PART 4:
UNPARALYSIS......Page 161
23. On the Usefulness of Anxiety: Two Evil Media Stratagems by Matthew Fuller and Andrew Goffey
......Page 162
24. Three Miles from Anarchy:
Managerial Fear and the Affective Factory by Jamie Cross
......Page 170
25. Data Sphere by Adnan Hadzi
......Page 177
26. Factoring Fear:
Investigations into Media(ted) Fear by Sandhya Devesan Nambiar
......Page 188
27. Fear in Neo-Kaliyuga:
Epistemic Troubles in Techno-Smrti Times by Kaushik Bhaumik......Page 195
28. Changing Scenes by Moinak Biswas
......Page 202
PART 5:
DISQUIET......Page 213
29. The Apparel of Anxiety: Three Artefacts of Fear and Fashion by Aarti Sethi
......Page 214
30. Feared Body by Agat Sharma
......Page 217
31. The Ninth and Final Ode to Life by Nupur Jain
......Page 220
32. Nine Pages around Disquiet by Priya Sen
......Page 230
33. Radiosity:
A SHORT PHILOSOPHICAL NOVEL by Roberto Cavallini
......Page 240
34. Fear, Inequity and Time:
A Sketch of How Art Answers the World’s Questions by Raqs Media Collective......Page 244
PART 6:
SCARED ON SCREEN......Page 247
35. A Reply to Terrorism on a Wednesday:
A Citizen Vigilante’s Prescriptions for Governing Terrorism by Rahul Mukherjee
......Page 248
36. Myth, Legend, Conspiracy:
Urban Terror in Aamir and Delhi-6 by Kuhu Tanvir
......Page 254
37. Fear on Film:
The Ramsay Brothers and Bombay’s Horror Cinema by Kartik Nair
......Page 260
38. “I Swear It’s Not a Cow...”
The Eerie Glow of Television Screens in America’s Heartland. by Angela Anderson
......Page 268
PART 7:
IN CONVERSATION......Page 271
39. From Anxiety to Enthusiasm by Slavoj Zizek in conversation with Shuddhabrata Sengupta......Page 272
40. Without Fear or Favour by Ashis Nandy
in conversation with Shuddhabrata Sengupta......Page 284
PART 8:
ALT/OPTION......Page 295
41. Fearless Speech, Fearless Listening by Cybermohalla Ensemble
......Page 296
Contributors
......Page 304
Editorial Collective
......Page 311
Acknowledgements &
Image and Photo Credits......Page 312