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... This chapter explores the connections between organic and inorganic matter and digital video aesthetics in Agnès Varda’s documentaries The Gleaners and I (2000) and The Beaches of Agnès (2008) and her video installation Widows of Noirmoutier (2006). In a seeming paradox, all of these works...

... Chapter 1 investigates the relationship between digital and political repertoires in Egypt, with a focus on women’s personal blogs that emerged before the 2011 revolution. It shows that the intimate publics generated by these blogs were not simply sites of debate about revolution; they were...

... Since Writing Culture, writing culture has gone through at least three time warps, psychodynamics, and writing technologies: pen, camera, digitization. Cultural anthropology has gone through shifts in building porosities first with the humanities, then the media, and lately emergent biological...

... Part 4 focuses on brown saviorism at the interface of digital proliferation. Each chapter in this part focuses on the ways that digital integration functions to (re)produce racialized division and allows brown saviors to accumulate ever more capital as they intervene in rural communities...

... In chapter thirteen, Shankar positions Sahaayaka and its leadership within the emerging politics of digital saviorism in India. Shankar shows how Sahaayaka's brown saviors grapple with the particularities of technological fixations and digital caste systems in both India and the United States...

... In chapter fourteen, Shankar thinks through the politics of digital time as it structures Sahaayaka's intervention. In particular Shankar shows how CEO Krish manipulates fieldworkers' experience of time as they use a new Sahaayaka phone app which makes their job far more about data collection...