| some days, we receive well-formed documents that are
| rather difficult to comprehend, for example,
| what is meant by "Fearless Listening"?
ref: Discourse and Truth: the Problematization of Parrhesia
http://foucault.info/documents/parrhesia/
"Free Speech & Fearless Listening: The encounter with censorship in
South Asia"
Organized by The Delhi Film Archive and Films for Freedom, in
association with Max Mueller Bhavan and the Sarai Programme at Centre
for Study of Developing Society (CSDS), Delhi, February 21-24, 2006
The ‘roundtable’ was an attempt to acknowledge and understand the
circulation and curtailment of speech in the South Asia region. The
transformed nature of information flows at the cusp of the late 20th and
early 21st Century has rendered inadequate national territories as
exclusive sites of study or debate. As newer technologies of production
and dissemination generate an unprecedented amount of information, there
are simultaneously greater demands for restrictions on speech from
state, non-state and corporate players. Independent documentary
filmmakers, journalists, writers and other professionals have struggled
to create spaces for images, words and ideas that find little support
with the governments or market-driven corporations.
The four day round table was attended by film makers, writers,
activists, journalists, lawyers, and saw an active participation by
media students.
An extensive report has been prepared by Smriti Vohra of Sarai-CSDS and
can be downloaded from
http://www.sarai.net/resources/event-proceedings/2006/censorship/resolveUid/e9f19b63e540c8a2388968ad0a0173ea