Sarai Reader 03:
Shaping Technologies

In Sarai Reader 03: Shaping Technologies, technology takes the centre-stage as a multi-faceted constellation of ideas, images, reflections, debates, histories and provocations.

The book reframes “technology” not as a distant expert domain but as a lived, contested field. It charts the series’ trajectory from its encounter with free‑software publics to urban infrastructures to ask how we shape our machines even as they shape us. Against the twin pull of technological hype and dystopian fatalism, it prompts a collective vocabulary for understanding and negotiating our techno‑cultures.