Amit S. Rai
Dr. Amit S. Rai is a Reader in Creative Industries and Arts Organising at Queen Mary, University of London, where he has also taught critical marketing studies and business ethics. He is the author of three books, Rule of Sympathy (2002), Untimely Bollywood (2009), Jugaad Time: Ecologies of Everyday Hacking in India (2019), and more recent articles include:“How to do Things with Attention: Prefigurative ontological design, pirate care within and against racial capital, and the value-form's abstract diagram” forthcoming in 2025. “Attention Entropy Collapse: ‘Late’ Hindutva’s Capture of ‘News’ in India’s Racial-Caste Capitalism, or Attention within and against Godi-Modi Media” forthcoming in 2025 in South Asian Popular Culture. “Decolonising Attention in and through Live Art” in Contemporary Theatre Review. Forthcoming in 2025.“Diagrammatic Attention” in Awry: Journal of Critical Psychology, forthcoming in 2025.
Rai has taught at the New School for Social Research, Florida State University, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, the Dutch Art Institute, and Lorton Maximum Security Prison. He is at work on a historical study of the political economy and prefigurative ontology of attention within and against racial-caste capitalism.
Amit @DAI
2024-2025 How to do things with Attention?
2021-2022 Decolonising Attention: Perception, Movement, Technics Within and Against the Postcolony