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Posts by: Sanjay Sharma

Sanjay Sharma is a Co-Editor of darkmatter and responsible for the site admin. Currently teaches in the School of Social Sciences, Brunel University, UK.
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Digitizing Race – Lisa Nakamura

by Sanjay Sharma • 31 Mar 10
Journal: Reviews | books

For those of you with a soft spot for the anthropomorphized cartoon dog surfing the Internet, Lisa Nakamura abolishes such nostalgia, and misunderstanding. Half way through Digitizing Race, she coolly declares ‘…nobody believes anymore that on the Internet nobody knows you’re a dog…’.


WordPress as Academic Journal Software?

by Sanjay Sharma • 6 Dec 09

I’ve previously written about using Wordpress (WP) as a CMS; the post was really about exploring WP as a software platform for operating an online academic Journal.

In this post, I’m going to examine WP in a little more depth.…


Cyberwar guide for Iran elections

by Sanjay Sharma • 16 Jun 09

The purpose of this guide is to help you participate constructively in the Iranian election protests through Twitter.


darkmatter upgrade

by Sanjay Sharma • 14 Mar 09

We undertook a major update for darkmatter journal. This involved upgrading wordpress software (which is used to run the journal), and installing a new look/theme Mimbo 2.

I used a live test site, to enable the other darkmatter editors to…


Dis-Orienting Rhythms: the politics of the new Asian dance music

by Sanjay Sharma • 8 Mar 09
Journal: Files

This book writes back the presence of South Asian youth into a rapidly expanding and exuberant music scene; and celebrates this as a dynamic expression of the experience of diaspora with an urgent political consciousness.


Wordpress as a CMS?

by Sanjay Sharma • 7 Mar 08

As the co-editor and web-admin of darkmatter, the opensource blog software platform of WordPress (WP) is used to run the journal. I’m not a proper coder, but a bit of (php, html, css) knowledge really does go a long way…


Editorial: Race/Matter – materialism and the politics of racialization

by Dimitris Papadopoulos and Sanjay Sharma • 23 Feb 08
Journal: Issues | Race/Matter [2]

A materialist turn in the humanities and social sciences has revitalized work in feminism, science and technology studies, critical social theory and phenomenology. Nonetheless, we want to ask what’s at stake when ‘race’ is grasped from a materialist standpoint? Is…


Wikipedia and Iraq: rewriting history?

by Sanjay Sharma • 21 Oct 07

  The shambolic, illegal occupation of Iraq by Western powers has resulted in countless deaths (murder) of civilians.

The ‘war against terror’ is as much an info-war as it is one involving death and destruction.

Enter Wikipedia into the affray.…


Copyfight – Forget YouTube?

by Sanjay Sharma • 15 Oct 07

There are many ‘web2.0′ video sharing/hosting sites these days, though YouTube (YT) reigns supreme. Now owned by Google, YT is becoming the search site for video.

However, if you’re intending to upload your own video, there are some serious restrictions…


Mobilizing India: Women, Music, and Migration between India and Trinidad

by Sanjay Sharma • 8 Sep 07
Journal: Reviews | books

Review of: Tejaswini Niranjana (2006) Mobilizing India: Women, Music, and Migration between India and Trinidad. London: Duke University Press.

Review can be read at anti-babel. (Due to copyright restrictions, this article can only appear on the reviewer’s own website).


Racisms, Migration & Citizenship in Europe [audio]

by Sanjay Sharma • 5 Aug 07
Journal: Files

A dialogue with Ettiene Balibar, Sandro Mezzadra et al – hosted by Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process (CSISP), Dept of Sociology, Goldsmiths.


Big Brother Racism Yet Again: A 5-Point Guide

by Sanjay Sharma • 12 Jun 07

Yet another post about Big Brother (BB) racism, but the last one you’ll ever need to read…

  1. Was Emily Parr calling her fellow housemate a ‘nigger’ a racist expression? Yes…and stop asking such dumb questions. Regardless of whether with


Short-Circuiting Knowledge Production

by Nirmal Puwar and Sanjay Sharma • 13 May 07
Journal: Files

The interior and exterior space of the writer is blown up in Giancarlo Neri’s 30ft table and chair made from six tons of steel, plated with wood and painted brown.[1] Placed deliberately in Hampstead Heath (London, UK) in 2005,…


Editorial: Celebrity Big Brother dialogues – the global pantomime of race

by Ash Sharma and Sanjay Sharma • 7 May 07
Journal: Celebrity Big Brother [1] | Issues

The banality of the UK Celebrity Big Brother (CBB) reality television show prepared no one for the global media spectacle of the fracas between the b-list Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty and the d(?)-list British super-ignoramus Jade Goody.[1] To debate whether…


One Laptop Per Child?

by Sanjay Sharma • 16 Apr 07

If you surf the net you’ll eventually come across the buzz over the one laptop per child initiative. Simply put, it’s a scheme to make very low cost, open-source software based wireless laptops available to the children of the…


Surveillance, Control and Terror

by Sanjay Sharma • 10 Mar 07

There are many glib pronouncements that we have entered into a ‘Big Brother State’. Rather then think of surveillance as a panopticon of disciplinary enclosure, it has penetrated the mobilities of everyday life – what Deleuze has named as societies…


Womb Raiders – Celebrities saving ‘Third World’ babies

by Sanjay Sharma • 9 Mar 07

Is ‘adopting’ a ‘Third World’ baby the ultimate charitable act for white western superstar celebrities?

Madonna’s acquisition of a baby from Malawi appears to pale into insignificance in comparison to the enthusiasm of actress Angelina Jolie. She has adopted babies…


Globalization: Cartographies of Power – Stuart Hall [audio]

by Sanjay Sharma • 28 Feb 07
Journal: Files

Professor Stuart Hall presented a discussion about globalization at the Centre for Cultural Studies (CSS, Goldsmiths, London University) event Cartographies of Power (1 Oct 2003).


East is East and the pitfalls of Hybridity

by Sanjay Sharma • 10 Feb 07
Journal: Reviews | film

Update: for a more developed reading of East is East, see my book Multicultural Encounters (2006: ch. 6)

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East is East has been hailed the British comedy hit of 1999. If the media response is anything…


Power of Nightmares Series

by Sanjay Sharma • 7 Feb 07

If you missed the BBC series Power of Nightmares (broadcast Jan 2005) about the relationship between USA Neo-Conservatives and ‘Radical Islam’, all three episodes are available for online viewing at the archive.org