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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO SARAI READER O6: TURBULENCE I. Introducing the Sarai Reader Sarai, (www.sarai.net) an interdisciplinary research and practice programme at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies invites contributions to Sarai Reader 06: Turbulence. We also invite proposals to initiate and moderate discussions on the themes of the Sarai Reader 06 on the Reader List (http://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list) with a view to the moderator(s) editing the transcripts of these discussions for publication in Sarai Reader 06. For an outline of the themes and concerns of Sarai Reader 06, see the Concept Outline below (section II). To know about the format of the articles that we invite, see 'Guidelines for Submissions' (sections III and IV) below. This year, the Sarai Reader has been invited to participate in the 'Journal of Journals' magazine project of Documenta 12. (see http://www.documenta12.de/documenta12/english/magazine.htm). Content from Sarai Reader 06 will be selected by the Sarai editorial collective to be published online on the Documenta 12 Magazine webpage. The Sarai Reader is an annual publication produced by Sarai/CSDS (Delhi). The contents of the Sarai Readers are available for free download from the Sarai website (http://www.sarai.net/journal/journal.htm) Previous Readers have included: 'The Public Domain', 2001; 'The Cities of Everyday Life', 2002; 'Shaping Technologies', 2003; 'Crisis/Media', 2004; and 'Bare Acts', 2005. The Sarai Reader series aims at bringing together original, thoughtful, critical, reflective, well-researched and provocative texts and essays by theorists, practitioners and activists, grouped under a core theme that expresses the interests of the Sarai in issues that relate media, information and society in the contemporary world. The Sarai Readers have a wide international readership. Editorial Collective: Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula, Ravi Sundaram, Ravi Vasudevan, Awadhendra Sharan, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, (Sarai-CSDS, Delhi) + Geert Lovink (Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam) II. Turbulence The past decade has opened up a series of transformations that seem to define (cumulatively) the contemporary, even as they themselves defy definition by virtue of the speed and immediacy with which they have made themselves manifest. Every mythic moment has begotten its Faustian other; globalisation produced counter-globalisation, the crisis of the US empire was exposed on September 11th and the quagmire in Iraq, the world of Islam is torn apart by internal strife and humiliation, the global West makes way for global China. Sovereignty, that old pillar of the modern state, stands in ruins, along with all stable social theories of the world, citizenship, the university and liberal doctrines of rights. Property, the legal form of capital is under attack, not only from labour but also from the mode of circulation and re-production. The kingdom of Piracy threatens the kingdom of Property. Massacres, media events, commodity fetishisms, security analyst _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann