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DESCRIPTION:Brian Larkin\n	Associate Professor\, Barnard College\, Columbia 
 University\n'Techniques of Inattention: Religion and the Mediality of Loud
 speakers in Nigeria'\n	This paper examines the use of loudspeakers in Niger
 ia\, particularly their\n	implication in religious violence\, to examine th
 e technologizing of everyday\n	life in Nigeria. It draws on loudspeakers to
  show how the operation of\n	technology forms a medial base that organizes 
 urban experience. But I argue that\n	technology operates through a reciproc
 al set of exchanges with other domains\n	from religious practice\, to urban
  violence\, to political rule.  Loudspeakers\n	produce cultural techniques 
 of attentiveness. For media theorists these\n	techniques are the aftereffec
 t of the /dispositif/ of technologies.  For\n	scholars of religion\, by con
 trast\, attention is a religious act\, a form of\n	self-cultivation enjoine
 d by traditions of religious discipline.  I seek to\n	explore this reciproc
 al interaction to open up questions about technology\,\n	religion and urban
 ism.\nBrian Larkin is the author of 'Signal and Noise: Infrastructure\, Me
 dia and Urban\n	Culture in Nigeria' (Duke\, 2008) and the co-editor of 'Med
 ia Worlds:\n	Anthropology on New Terrain' (California\, 2000). He writes on
  issues of media\,\n	infrastructure\, urbanism and religion in Nigeria and 
 is currently completing the\n	manuscript\, 'Secular Machines: Media and the
  Materiality of Islamic Reviva'l.\n	Larkin teaches anthropology at Barnard 
 College\, Columbia University.\n \n
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 rbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Brian Larkin 'Techniques of Inattention: Religion and the Mediality
  of Loudspeakers in Nigeria' | AHCS Speaker Series
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