Generator Life

Brian Larkin, professor of anthropology, Barnard College and Columbia University.  Through his research on the ethnography and history of media in Nigeria, Larkin explores how media technologies comprise broader networked infrastructures that shape a whole range of actions from forms of political rule, to new urban spaces, to cultural life. He has also published widely on issues of globalization, piracy and intellectual property and Nigerian films (Nollywood).  This talk focuses on generators in Nigeria.