The Political Aesthetics of Light

w/ Brian Larkin (Barnard College, Columbia University)

//November 4th, 2024

//5:30 PM

//Raah Lab, FB 630.17

//1250 rue Guy

Co-presented with the Raah Lab

Abstract: I use light as a way of opening up questions about the relation of aesthetics to racial capitalism. Drawing from research in Nigeria, but thinking more generally, I move between structures of political economy and the everyday techniques and experience of living with and in light.

Brian Larkin teaches anthropology at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is the Co-founder of the Center for Comparative Media at Columbia.

Photograph by Baudoin Mouanda.