“A pioneering text in scholarship on postcolonial technological cultures.”
“Gupta is a thoughtful and skilled qualitative scholar. Her descriptions are rich and colourful, whether she is writing about the monotony of her work sorting through marketing photos for Captivate or the bustle of Bangalore’s pubs.”
“A seminal ethnographic study that presents a deep analysis of how the work is feminized, utilized for affective aspects, performed across both private and public spaces, and subjected to precarious conditions of ‘unremunerated experimentation’.”
"With a careful and creative ethnographic eye, Hemangini Gupta explores the dynamics of startup culture and capital in one of its global centers, Bangalore. Here she finds a new and important story around the gendered and racialized underpinnings of the information age, meanwhile sharing the rich, though often precarious, forms of social life surrounding the ideal of entrepreneurship."—Kalindi Vora, Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University
"Experimental Times offers a way of understanding the queer and feminist possibilities of speculative, technologized, and financialized forms of capitalism without being utopian or celebratory. It makes methodological contributions to Feminist Studies and Science and Technology Studies through the formulation of 'labor-as-method' as a way of understanding 'the Global South,' not necessarily as difference but through the generative possibilities of differences."—Sareeta Amrute, Associate Professor of Strategic Design and Management, The New School
"A rich and original exploration of everyday worlds of work and the forms of experimentation set in motion by the startup economy in India. The blending of rich ethnographic detail and insightful theoretical interventions will stimulate discussion about digital startup cultures in India and beyond."—Radha Sarma Hegde, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
