Monday, March 9, 2015 at 6:00 pm to 7:45 pm
Brian Larkin, Barnard College, Columbia University
Abstract: This paper examines the use of loudspeakers in Nigeria, particularly their implication in religious violence, to examine the technologizing of everyday life in Nigeria. It draws on loudspeakers to show how the operation of technology forms a medial base that organizes urban experience.