Geek Sublime
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Geek Sublime
A great novelist on his twin obsessions: writing and coding. What is the relationship between the two? Is there such a thing as the sublime in code? Can we ascribe beauty to the craft of coding? Vikram Chandra is the award-winning author of two acclaimed novels and a collection of short stories - and has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a writer. In his extraordinary new book he looks at the connection between these two worlds of art and technology. Coders are obsessed with elegance and style, just as writers are, but do the words mean the same thing to both? And is it a coincidence that Chandra is drawn to two seemingly opposing ways of thinking? Exploring these questions, Chandra creates an idiosyncratic history of coding - exploring such varied topics as logic gates and literary modernism, the male machismo of geeks, the striking presence of an 'Indian Mafia' in Silicon Valley, and the writings of Abhinavagupta, the 10th - 11th century Kashmiri thinker. Part technology story and part memoir, Geek Sublime is a book of sweeping ideas. It is a heady and utterly original work.
Popular Postcolonialisms
Drawing together the insights of postcolonial scholarship and cultural studies, Popular Postcolonialisms questions the place of ‘the popular’ in the postcolonial paradigm. Multidisciplinary in focus, this collection explores the extent to which popular forms are infused with colonial logics, and whether they can be employed by those advocating for change. It considers a range of fiction, film, and non-hegemonic cultural forms, engaging with topics such as environmental change, language activism, and cultural imperialism alongside analysis of figures like Tarzan and Frankenstein. Building on the work of cultural theorists, it asks whether the popular is actually where elite conceptions of the world may best be challenged. It also addresses middlebrow cultural production, which has tended to be seen as antithetical to radical traditions, asking whether this might, in fact, form an unlikely realm from which to question, critique, or challenge colonial tropes. Examining the ways in which the imprint of colonial history is in evidence (interrogated, mythologized or sublimated) within popular cultural production, this book raises a series of speculative questions exploring the interrelation of the popular and the postcolonial.
Red Earth and Pouring Rain
In Vikram Chandra'S Astonishing First Novel, The Gods Hanuman, Ganesha And Yama Descend On A House In An Indian City To Vie For The Soul Of A Wounded Monkey. A Bargain Is Struck: The Monkey Must Tell A Story, And If He Can Keep His Audience Entertained, He Shall Live. The Result Is Red Earth And Pouring Rain, A Tale Of Nineteenth Century India: Of Sanjay, A Poet, And Sikander, A Warrior; Of Hoofbeats Thundering Through The Streets Of Calcutta And The Birth Of A Luminous Child; Of Great Wars And Love Affairs And A City Gone 'Mad With Poetry'. And Woven Into This Tapestry Of Stories Is A Second, Totally Modern Narrative, The Adventures Of A Young Indian Criss-Crossing America In A Car With His Friends And His Eventual Return To His Homeland.