Pirate modernity

By:

"Sundaram, Ravi"

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi; Routledge; 2010Description: 224pISBN:

9788189643072

Subject(s):

Urbanisation

DDC classification:

307.76 SUN

Summary: Defining 'pirate modernity' as a non-legal form of digital life, Sundaram describes the web of social, political, and cultural circuits that circulate the new media in urban landscape. Empirically rich and interpretively ambitious, Pirate Modernity sparkles with brilliant insights on postcolonial urbanism. There is no work like this "Follow Sundaram into a grey world, ready to be conceptualized. The dusty electronics of the Indian metropole painted out here prove that we have surpassed linear development models and are entering the age of messy politics. Pirate modernity is our integral reality It is raw and digital. Vital and illegal. Poor and fast

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Defining 'pirate modernity' as a non-legal form of digital life, Sundaram describes the web of social, political, and cultural circuits that circulate the new media in urban landscape. Empirically rich and interpretively ambitious, Pirate Modernity sparkles with brilliant insights on postcolonial urbanism. There is no work like this
"Follow Sundaram into a grey world, ready to be conceptualized. The dusty electronics of the Indian metropole painted out here prove that we have surpassed linear development models and are entering the age of messy politics. Pirate modernity is our integral reality It is raw and digital. Vital and illegal. Poor and fast

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