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SUMMARY:Neighbours Vol. 7: The Media System of Empire\, Brian Larkin / HIT
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DESCRIPTION:Brian Larkin is the Director of Graduate Studies and a Profes
 sor of Anthropology at Barnard College\, Columbia University. \nThe Media
  System of Empire\nIn 1839 the British Colonial Office received 902 pieces
  of correspondence from its far-flung territories. By 1909 this number ros
 e to 90\,000\, and by 1939 it passed 300\,000. Empire is the extension of 
 political power and administration across racial\, linguistic\, and cultur
 al difference. In the case of the British Empire that power depended upon 
 a communicative infrastructure of files\, memos\, minutes\, dispatches\, a
 nd other documents which enacted the practical work of drawing disparate t
 erritories into a single system. As the size and complexity of empire grew
 \, British imperialists had to innovate new forms of storing and circulati
 ng information. My book project examines the infrastructures\, protocols\,
  circulatory forms\, and storage mechanisms by which information was moved
  and stored at different points in British imperial history. Cumulatively\
 , these changes formatted the civil service for a modern era of informatio
 n\, one that undergirded empire as an organizational system. I examine the
  material infrastructures of imperial information systems. This is what I 
 term the media system of Empire.\n\nBio\nBrian Larkin is the Director of 
 Graduate Studies and a Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College\, Colu
 mbia University. His research focuses on the ethnography and history of me
 dia in Nigeria. Most broadly he examines the introduction of media technol
 ogies into Nigeria—cinema\, radio\, digital media—and the religious\, 
 political\, and cultural changes they bring about. He explores how media t
 echnologies comprise broader networked infrastructures that shape a whole 
 range of actions from forms of political rule\, to new urban spaces\, to r
 eligious and cultural life. He has also published widely on issues of tech
 nology and breakdown\, piracy and intellectual property\, the global circu
 lation of cultural forms\, infrastructure and urban space\, sound studies\
 , and Nigerian film (Nollywood). He is currently completing the manuscript
  for Secular Machines: Media and the Materiality of Islamic Revival\, whi
 ch analyzes the role media play in the rise of new Islamic movements in Ni
 geria and explores theoretical questions about technology and religion. \
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