[Nettime-bold] More on the Reader-List@sarai

[Monica Narula <monica@sarai.net>]

Dear Nettime Readers,

This is to introduce you all to the recently launched discussion list 
on the Sarai server called - 'Reader-List'.

As you may know from a few postings that have appeared on Nettime 
already, Sarai:The New Media Initiative - is a space, a network and a 
programme for collaborative work in media practice and research with 
a strong emphasis on contemporary urban culture. It embraces 
multimedia and digital arts, film and video, the Internet and 
computer culture, as well as issues pertaining to the history of 
media and communication technologies. Sarai is a programme of the 
Centre for the Study of Developing Societues, Delhi.

For more details about the Sarai Initiative, please see our website 
www.sarai.net

The "Reader-List" is a an online space for inter-disciplinary 
discussion on new and old media, tactical media, urban space and 
culture. The list has a relationship with Sarai: the New Media 
Initiative in the sense that it is administered from Sarai, but the 
views and opinions expressed on the list are those of the authors 
alone.

To subscribe to the list mail go to 
http://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list
To view the archives of the list go to 
http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list

The list is an invitation to post, debate and reflect on the 
relationship between media, technology, cultural practice & politics, 
urban spaces and human beings in a free and uncensored environment. 
While many of the Readers and Writers on the [Reader-List] are from 
Delhi/India/South Asia, and the list often discusses issues that are 
relevant to and situated within a South Asian context, this by no 
means is a cultural or geographical sign of limitation.

Subscribers/Writers tend to be from a variety of backgrounds, and at 
the last count embraced media practitioners, theorists, activists, 
programmers, filmmakers, free software enthusiasts, engineers and 
artists from Delhi, Lahore, Calcutta, Mumbai, Berlin, Amsterdam, 
London, New York and Sydney, among other places. There are presently 
about 118 members on the list.

Some of the themes taken up in the threads of discussion that have 
emerged in the last three months have been :

Surveillance of the Internet (in India and elsewhere)
Identification and Social Control
Virtual Disturbances and Electronic Sit Ins
Space, Cyberspace and cSpace
A Discussion on the Delhi Platform of Documenta XI
Closed and Open Urban Spaces

The Reader List grew out of an informal discussion space around the 
Sarai Reader 01: On the Public Domain (edited by Raqs Media 
Collective and Geert Lovink) which is available online at 
www.sarai.net/journal/reader1.html

-- 
Monica Narula
Sarai:The New Media Initiative
29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054
www.sarai.net


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