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SUMMARY:Neighbours Vol. 7: The Media System of Empire\, Brian Larkin / HIT
 AM\, TPOD\, THEMA
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DESCRIPTION:Bio\nBrian Larkin is the Director of Graduate Studies and a P
 rofessor of Anthropology at Barnard College\, Columbia University. His res
 earch focuses on the ethnography and history of media in Nigeria. Most bro
 adly he examines the introduction of media technologies into Nigeria—cin
 ema\, radio\, digital media—and the religious\, political\, and cultural
  changes they bring about. He explores how media technologies comprise bro
 ader networked infrastructures that shape a whole range of actions from fo
 rms of political rule\, to new urban spaces\, to religious and cultural li
 fe. He has also published widely on issues of technology and breakdown\, p
 iracy and intellectual property\, the global circulation of cultural forms
 \, infrastructure and urban space\, sound studies\, and Nigerian film (Nol
 lywood). He is currently completing the manuscript for Secular Machines: M
 edia and the Materiality of Islamic Revival\, which analyzes the role med
 ia play in the rise of new Islamic movements in Nigeria and explores theor
 etical questions about technology and religion. \n \nThe Media System of
  Empire\nIn 1839 the British Colonial Office received 902 pieces of corres
 pondence from its far-flung territories. By 1909 this number rose to 90\,0
 00\, and by 1939 it passed 300\,000. Empire is the extension of political 
 power and administration across racial\, linguistic\, and cultural differe
 nce. In the case of the British Empire that power depended upon a communic
 ative infrastructure of files\, memos\, minutes\, dispatches\, and other d
 ocuments which enacted the practical work of drawing disparate territories
  into a single system. As the size and complexity of empire grew\, British
  imperialists had to innovate new forms of storing and circulating informa
 tion. My book project examines the infrastructures\, protocols\, circulato
 ry forms\, and storage mechanisms by which information was moved and store
 d at different points in British imperial history. Cumulatively\, these ch
 anges formatted the civil service for a modern era of information\, one th
 at undergirded empire as an organizational system. I examine the material 
 infrastructures of imperial information systems. This is what I term the m
 edia system of Empire.\n\n 
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