Archive for the ‘Mobile Phones’ Category

Ingression

Posted: February 27, 2011 in Becoming, Deleuze, Diagramming Affective Ethics, Ecology of Sensation, ethics, Mobile Phones, Perception
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How does one engage an event? The event has gone through torsions in this blog. But we shouldn’t confuse an event with a blog. What is happening as I write in Libya is an event that changes the contours of everything, but not for everyone in the same way, or for the same duration, or [...]

Biopower and Marketing

Posted: September 4, 2010 in Becoming, Bergson, biopower, Deleuze, dialectic, Ecology of Sensation, ethics, Freedom, marketing, marketing ethics, Method, Mobile Phones, Nietzsche, Organized Networks, social viscosity, Swarms, Time, Value, value added, value capture
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“Marketing is an organizational function and a set of processes for creating, capturing [added by the authors], communicating and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stakeholders.” Dhruv Grewal and Michael Levy, Marketing (London: McGraw-Hill, 2008) i Let us begin with a refrain developed in [...]

The Value of Affect: Perception and Media in India today

Posted: May 31, 2010 in Becoming, Benjamin, Bergson, Bollywood, Causality, Cinema, Clinamen, Deleuze, dialectic, Ecology of Sensation, Experiments with vision, India, Method, Mobile Phones, New Media, Nietzsche, Organized Networks, Perception, Photography, Photography of India, Public Sphere, Time, Zen
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reticulation 9.6 copy Abstract: This essay aims to diagram the set of connectivities (or “system of relations”) developing in business outsourcing affective, communicative labor and the value-adding digital image in contemporary Hindi-Urdu cinema. What emerges is a resonant set of nested temporalities constituting a new media assemblage. Throughout, I draw on a set of analyses [...]

Distributed Networks: On Security, Terror, Mobility and Other Sensations

Posted: April 19, 2010 in Becoming, Bergson, Clinamen, Deleuze, Ecology of Sensation, India, Method, Mobile Phones, New Media, Organized Networks, Perception, Probabilistic chips, social viscosity, Swarms
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This lecture is based on research conducted in Delhi-NCR and Mumbai on mobile phone cultures over the past nine months. This research has focused on changing patterns of use emerging from shifts in relations of power between government, network providers, content producers, value added companies, and communities of active users across urban and rural space. [...]