<editorial board> zero issue: draft intro

[Nirmal Puwar]

Hi
works with the changes.

just one suggestion, if I may - the opening words 'The old institutions
are crumbling' could be changed to 'Long established institutional forms
are undergoing transformations'

Quickly, here are my reasons:
1.'old institutions' just seems like a rather ahistorical phrase. How old
is old in the current drive for the novel, new and innovative
[ref.Connerton 2009 'How Modernity Forgets'].

2.'crumbling' is visually more dramatic than what is happening, which is a
transformation of both down-sizing and expansion, alongside a
re-configuration of public-private economies.

just a suggestion

nirmal
On Wed, December 2, 2009 10:11 am, Ranabir Samaddar wrote:
> Dear members of the collective,
> Pl. find a revised intro. It offers slightly nuanced additions. Pl. feel
> free to use or discard them Best
> Ranabir
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>> Please find attached the draft of introduction for the zero
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>> The layout and the pdf of the various articles
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Dr Nirmal Puwar
Department of Sociology
Goldsmiths, London University.
Co-organiser of Methods Lab
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/methods-lab/