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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	\n	This paper examines the use of loudspeakers in Nig
 eria\, particularly their\n	implication in religious violence\, to examine 
 the technologizing of everyday\n	life in Nigeria. It draws on loudspeakers 
 to show how the operation of\n	technology forms a medial base that organize
 s urban experience. But I argue that\n	technology operates through a recipr
 ocal set of exchanges with other domains\n	from religious practice\, to urb
 an violence\, to political rule.  Loudspeakers\n	produce cultural technique
 s of attentiveness. For media theorists these\n	techniques are the aftereff
 ect of the /dispositif/ of technologies.  For\n	scholars of religion\, by c
 ontrast\, attention is a religious act\, a form of\n	self-cultivation enjoi
 ned by traditions of religious discipline.  I seek to\n	explore this recipr
 ocal interaction to open up questions about technology\,\n	religion and urb
 anism.\nBrian Larkin is the author of 'Signal and Noise: Infrastructure\, 
 Media and Urban\n	Culture in Nigeria' (Duke\, 2008) and the co-editor of 'M
 edia Worlds:\n	Anthropology on New Terrain' (California\, 2000). He writes 
 on issues of media\,\n	infrastructure\, urbanism and religion in Nigeria an
 d is currently completing the\n	manuscript\, 'Secular Machines: Media and t
 he Materiality of Islamic Reviva'l.\n	Larkin teaches anthropology at Barnar
 d 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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 ention-religion-and-mediality-loudspeakers-nigeria-ahcs-speaker-series-241
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