Media and Utopia

Introduction Part I: Archive and Imagination 1. The Cinematic Soteriology of Bollywood 2. Fetish Power Unbound: A Small History of Woman In Chinese Cinema  3. Civil Contract of Photography in India  Part II: Genealogy 4. Tracking Utopias: Technology, Labour, and Secularism in Bombay Cinema (1930s-1940s)  5. National Becoming, Regional Variation, and Everyday Moments: U.P. and the Film Enquiry  6. Museum as Metaphor: The Politics of an Imagined Ahmedabad  Part III: Nostalgia  7. The Labour of Self-Making: Youth Service Workers, and Post-Socialist Urban Development in Kolkata 8. Nostalgia and the Mediatic Imagination in Tito‘s Yugoslavia  9. Past Futures of Old Media: Gulam Mohammed Sheikh‘s Kaavad: Travelling Shrine: Home  10. Sonic Ruptures: Music, Mobility, and Media  Part IV: Newness 11. Media and Imagination: Ramananda Chatterjee and His Journals in Three Languages  12. Radical Intervention in Dystopian Media Ecologies  13. Posthuman Amusements: Gaming and Virtuality  Part IV: Word and the World 14. Populist Publics: Print Capitalism and Crowd Violence Beyond Liberal Frameworks  Part VI: Political Theology 15. On Innocence: Blasphemy, Pan-Islam and the Uneven Mediation of Utopia