पत्रकारिता में बहुत कुछ बदला है। कारोबार के आकार से लेकर टेक्नोलॉजी तक में बुनियादी बदलाव हो चुके हैं। लेकिन पत्रकारिता में एक चीज है जो समय के फ्रेम में लगभग फ्रीज सी हो गई है। यह ठहराव पत्रकारिता में जातिवाद के संदर्भ में है। पत्रकारिता में वंचित समूहों की हिस्सेदारी पहले बिल्कुल नहीं थी और अब भी हालात बदले नहीं हैं। प्रमोद रंजन का यह आलेख…[Read more]

In August 2019, Prof Avijit Pathak and Prof Apoorvanand have written two poignant pieces on the government-sponsored maligning of JNU and the fall of the university, published in The Wire and the Indian Express, respectively. Taking the discourse forward, Forward Press managing editor Pramod Ranjan emphasizes the need for those fighting to save…[Read more]

This paper offers an articulation of a teaching methodology that I call Gamemaking in Education (GME). This educational approach emphasizes student gamemaking rather than gameplay. In this paper, I discuss what GME is, review some cases in which other educators have used what might be called GME in college classrooms, and situate GME as an…[Read more]

This is a poem about fire.

This article invites the reading of Fernando Pessoa’s Fausto as a rhizomatic work, via three different critical lenses that lead to plurality: Traditions, Transcriptions, and Translations. Regarding different Faustian traditions, instead of seeing Pessoa’s Fausto merely as a competition with Goethe (as proposed by Eduardo Lourenço in his pref…[Read more]

In contemporary performance, “action” seems to include acts, emergent action and the potential for action—even sometimes non-action. Performers include the human and nonhuman, the living and the nonliving. Through all this runs a complexity of technics—technologies and techniques—and these increasingly involve computational processes. How do we…[Read more]

Exploration, from 20 years ago, of the concept of the virtual in Deleuze, De Landa, Massumi, Grosz, Bergson, Zizek and others. This is the main concern though it is tie into VR and related technologies (as things were around 2004). I wrote this a very long time ago and never quite published it (I don’t think I tried). So it’s very much a draft.…[Read more]

Presented in the spirit of Open Educational Resources. Full Course Outline for The World as Medium and/vs The Third Media Revolution. Level 3 course designed across many programs (Journalism and Comms, BA, Design, PR, Screen and Sound, Law, etc). So it’s a somewhat generalist course. It begins with a summary of standard approaches (from standard…[Read more]

How did so much of contemporary technics become so disappointing, so deadening? How is technics being thought, and worked with, to enliven? What different assemblages and principles are involved? This chapter begins in sympathy with Michel Serres’ “aggrieved shame” and then moves to Wendy Hui Kyong Chun’s discussion of an “undeadness” at the heart…[Read more]

In this book chapter, Dr. Davis examines the depiction of a dissimulated desire for material improvement (mejora) as it is expressed in the epic poetry of imperial Spain, particularly in Alonso de Ercilla’s La Araucana. She shows that within the aristocratic context of the times, the desire for personal betterment or “mejora” is always contingent…[Read more]

The nautical motif of the ex-voto (votive offering) is a lyric genre that reflects poetically the possible experience of a shipwreck survivor. Paradoxically, many of the poets who evoke the perils of sea travel never left Spain or, at most, sailed only the waters of the Mediterranean. Their writing of the sea remained consistently codified in…[Read more]

In this early article, written in the wake of the publication of Alessandro Martinengo’s _La astrología en la obra de Quevedo_ (Madrid: Alhambra, 1983), Dr. Davis focuses on the astrological tropes in a Quevedo sonnet on the nativity of Christ to see whether this poetic text can shed additional light on the poet’s documented penchant for…[Read more]

Professor Davis’s early article on appropriations of the Indies by Spanish poets who remained in Spain invites us to contemplate a body of poetry that plays the idea of American treasures against the value of true, spiritual riches.

Several of Francisco de Quevedo’s hagiographic poems are puzzling because of their irreverent tone. Edward M. Wilson and Jose Manuel Blecua both noted that “la relacion entre las dos caras de un Quevedo es cuestión difícil y delicada para los modernos;” indeed, the writer’s particular blend of “las burlas con las veras” has attracted attention s…[Read more]

This essay analyzes the work of the poetic function as defined by Roman Jakobson in poems by Francisco de Quevedo that concern themselves with the trope of the rending of the rocks at the moment of Christ’s death on the cross, and in other poetic texts of Quevedo.

This editorial appeared in the last print issue of FORWARD Press, published from New Delhi. The article discusses the need for a democratic form of the newsroom. Along with this, various dimensions of Dalit-Bahujan journalism have come to the fore.

The Forward Press magazine was bilingual (Hindi and English). The article uploaded here is also…[Read more]

Omani students were introduced to Independent Learning Tools, such as MyELT, Moodle, and MS Teams, during the Covid-19 pandemic. They used these tools for their study throughout the pandemic. Hence, this research investigated how satisfied were Omani students with independent learning tools during Covid-19. This study is significant because it…[Read more]

प्रमोद रंजन और उनकी टीम द्वारा वर्ष 2009 में किए गए सर्वेक्षण में पाया गया था कि बिहार की पत्रकारिता में फैसला लेने वालों पदों पर एक भी दलित, पिछड़ा, आदिवासी नहीं है। फैसला लेने वाले पदों पर स्त्रियों की भागीदारी भी शून्य है। इस सर्वेक्षण में प्रिंट व इलेक्ट्रॉनिक दोनों माध्यमों को लिया गया था तथा इसमें हिंदी, अंग्रेजी और उर्दू के मीडिया संस…[Read more]

यह लेख अप्रैल, 2011 के अंत में लिखा गया था। उस समय अन्ना हजारे भ्रष्टाचार विरोधी आंदोलन चरम पर था। इस लेख में इस आंदोलन के दलित-बहुजन विरोधी चरित्र को उजागर किया गया है।

लेख में बताया गया है कि किन कारणों से कॉरपोरेट घराने इस आंदोलन के समर्थक थे और किस प्रकार इसके मूल में लोकतंत्र की अवमानना निहित थी।