Prema Goet is an ethno-Indologist, ex-worker, artist, and multidisciplinary researcher whose work focuses on the intellectual history, cultures, and languages of South Asia. He holds a B.A. in Sanskrit and an M.A. in South Asian Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Prema is a Research Fellow with the Śākta Traditions Research Programme at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies (UK) and is currently a doctoral researcher at the Institute of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna. His research focuses on mantras that are not recited or chanted but entextualised through the intrinsic relationship between materiality, imagination, and embodied practices. He is part of the MANTRAMS research project: Mantras in Religion, Media, and Society in Global Southern Asia.
prema.simon.goet@univie.ac.at
UTKRĀNTI PRESS is a collective of ex-workers inspired by marginal cultural expressions not sufficiently documented by academic research, the phonographic industry and other neo-liberal mediums. Whilst mostly dedicated to visual culture and multi-modal research in Anthropology, UTKRĀNTI PRESS is committed to exploring, and publishing distinguishable textual sources, sound-waves and visual art via printed matter, film, video, photography