Digital Humanities in India: Towards an Infrastructural Critique Of and With E-Lit

Online event in English with simultaneous translation into other languages

Zoom Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/89653830433
This talk will shed light on a broader question of digital cultures and performances in the online space in India. The material, social constraints and varied social geographies influence, mould, and shape what we understand to be the subjective act of creation. Such epistemic considerations are vital to rethink the generational typology of Electronic Literature that can unconsciously privilege technological access. To emphasise an alternative mode of theorisation, this talk problematises the notions of reading, writing and spaces. Samya Brata Roy (School of Liberal Arts, IIT Jodhpur) will ponder on the infrastructural issues of accessibility, computational awareness, knowledge of the field, institutional networks etc. and how they all create networks, hierarchies and power imbalances. The investigation's point would be to better understand digital divides by Implementing Electronic LiteratureS (Ensslin and Roy 2023) as a method.