%0 Journal Article
%T Ravi Sundaram, Pirate Modernity: Delhi¡¯s Media Urbanism
%A Diya Mehra
%J South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
%D 2011
%I Centre d¡¯Etudes de l¡¯Inde et de l¡¯Asie du Sud
%X The field of urban studies is a growing one as Indian cities transform beyond recognition. In his book Pirate Modernity: Delhi¡¯s Media Urbanism, Ravi Sundaram tries to capture this transformation, using a theoretical lens little explored in existing literature. To wit, Sundaram is interested in ¡®the evaporation of the boundary between technology and urban life¡¯ which has produced ¡®a delirious disorientation of the senses¡¯ (p. 7). The examples of such evaporation and of a newly technologized u...
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