Salim Farhat's Books

Digital Expressions of the Self(ie)

The Social Life of Selfies in India

By: Avishek Ray,Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan,Usha Raman,Martin Web,Neha Gupta,Sai Amulya Komarraju,Anuja Premika,Riad Azam,Farhat Salim,Pranavesh Subramanian

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Digital Expressions of the Self(ie)

The Social Life of Selfies in India

By: Avishek Ray,Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan,Usha Raman,Martin Web,Neha Gupta,Sai Amulya Komarraju,Anuja Premika,Riad Azam,Farhat Salim,Pranavesh Subramanian

The book examines the social and cultural role of selfies in India. It looks at how the selfie, unlike the photograph, which was a gesture towards an external reality, remains intimately self-referential, yet reconfigures social ordering, identity formation, agency, and spaces in curious ways. This volume approaches questions about the construction and performance of the self through the digital selfie and uses this situated, contextualized, and culturally specific phenomenon as a site to explore the themes of self-making, place-making, gender, subjectivity, and power. Highlighting the specific contexts of production, the authors examine the array of self-expressive capabilities realized in a multitude of uses of the selfie that simultaneously reconfigure the self, the space, and the world. An important study of visual social media culture, the volume will be useful for interpreting everyday media experiences and will be of interest to students and researchers of image studies, visual studies, photography studies, visual culture, media studies, culture studies, cultural anthropology, digital humanities, popular culture, sociology of technology, and South Asian studies.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003847374

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Short Story Press Presents The Tronik Gambit

By: Short Story Press,Salim Farhat

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Short Story Press Presents The Tronik Gambit

By: Short Story Press,Salim Farhat

Short Story Press Presents The Tronik Gambit by Salim Farhat The Tronik Gambit is the story of a rag-tag group of air pirates. Like their older, sea-borne brethren, they spent years terrorizing aerial shipping, raiding ships on the seas with float-planes, and robbing towns and remote outposts on land, and using their machines to make the fastest getaways imaginable and were a huge thorn in the side of the authorities. Operating from a massive flying aircraft carrier, and using clouds, mist, and forbidding terrain to hide their presence and move around with impunity. Their weapons and machines are makeshift, and purchased from corrupt industrialists, and created entirely from scratch with nothing but stolen parts and material, or outright stolen from the legitimate governments of the world. Amid all this, there is a massive war going on between the Drakameer and the Ukarin, two nations with a history of bitterness that runs so deeps that neither side has any qualms against using criminals, madmen, or psychopaths against each other. While they’re still officially wanted, air pirates were used to do thing that would be too difficult for them to explain to their own citizens. For all their success, most of the gang has grown weary of their life on the edge and yearn to go back to the society that they had turned their backs on, so long ago. So they use their connections with some shady individuals in the Ukarin military, men who have no qualms selling their country’s secrets for a fistful of cash and some favors. Discovering that the ruthless General Tronik, a psychopath with a pathological need to undertake military ventures that border on the suicidal, they realize they not only have their ticket to securing their pardon, but to ending their careers with the biggest bang imaginable. All while taking on the most monstrous war machine they had ever produced: the flying battleship Briesmonis. Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.

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1648913652

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam

By: Salim Ayduz

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam

By: Salim Ayduz

The main reference source for questions of Islamic philosophy, science, and technology amongst Western engaged readers and academics in general and legal researchers in particular.

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