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. SENSOR-CENSUS-CENSOR : Investigating Circuits of Information, Registering Changes of State An International Colloquium on Information, Society, History and Politics New Delhi, 27, 28 & 29 November 2006 (Apologies for Cross Posting) SENSOR-CENSUS-CENSOR : Investigating Circuits of Information, Registering Changes of State is an International Colloquium on Information, Society. Politics and History that will critically examine and investigate regimes and technologies of information harvesting, management, circulation and deployment as they have developed in India and Europe from early modernity till today. The colloquium, organized by the Sarai Programme at CSDS, Delhi, in collaboration with the Waag Society, Amsterdam, under the rubric of the network titled 'Towards a Culture of Open Networks', invites scholars, theorists, researchers and practitioners working in the areas of history, political economy, political theory, philosophy, culture and technology studies as well as artists, writers and media practitioners based in India and/or Europe to submit proposals for papers and presentations that they would like to make at the colloquium. SENSOR-CENSUS-CENSOR will take place in the last week of November 2006 in Delhi. Please see below for a concept outline describing the themes and concerns animating the colloquium. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Information, Society, Politics, History Information is a crucial axis of political, economic and social life. The nature of information practices in contemporary societies are marked by a radical dispersal. This dispersal does not replace, earlier centralizing modes of gathering information, but stands alongside it. The basis of governance, in all its capillary forms and at all levels, from the level of the neighbourhood or the workplace to that of city, district, province, and the nation, and continuing even at the level of the relationship between persons (as citizens and non citizens) and different nations, and between nations themselves, can continue to be analysed in terms of the management of information. In fact, we can locate the analysis of information in society, history and politics along the lines of tension between centralization and dispersal. At the core of this axial reality lies a conceptual and a categorical distinction between what is seen to be a member of a population - an entity that needs to be governed, and the far more valuable category of the citizen - a subject (with sentience and volition) who participates in that governance. The recognition of subjectivity (a sensory operation, involving an awareness of the change of state that involves the transition from a silent, or incoherent stati _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann