Raqs Media Collective

http://nangla.freeflux.net/

Over the last 35 years we have seen many an internal dislocation of habitation and life worlds within the city of Delhi. This is something that started with high intensity from the early 70s. Now the process of this internal dislocation has become intense and harder.

Nangla Maachi is a 30 year old habitation. It was made by its inhabitants over this period. It is along the river bank and next to Pragati Maidan (Progress Grounds). It has now become valuable real estate as it is prime land for new urban development fairly close to the centre of the city.

The process of its dislocation has, therefore, begun.

Yesterday Raqs participated in KQED Public Radio Forum on "Fostering the Digital Commons", the audio of which can be found here.

On the way back from what can be described as an attempt to argue for sharing and collaboration, I came across this on the road.

Rummaging in wikipedia, and think that these make for a good perspective on doing and thinking:

Meaghan Morris, from King Kong and the Human Fly

"de Certeau's move from summit to street involves a troubling reinscription of a theory/practice opposition - semantically projected as 'high' versus 'low' (elite versus 'popular', 'mastery' versus 'resistance'), 'static' versus 'dynamic' ('structure' versus 'history', 'metanarrative' versus 'story'), 'seeing' versus 'doing' ('control' versus 'creativity', and 'power' versus 'know-how') - which actually blocks the possibility of walking away at all. In fact, de certeau's visit to the World Trade Center is a way of mapping all over again the 'grid' of binary oppositions within which so much of the debate about structuralism was conducted."