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Latent Cosmologies, Latent Media: The Material Temporality of Twelver Shi'i Media Practices in Mumbai.

In this essay, I argue that the temporal figure of latency is central for an understanding of the material temporalities of media. Latency as a temporal figure is built into the material functioning of sound reproduction and audiovisual media. The discussion shows how latency underpins technical pro...

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Published in:Anthropological Quarterly Vol. 96; no. 2; pp. 255 - 278
Main Author: Eisenlohr, Patrick
Format: Article
Published: George Washington Institute for Ethnographic Research Spring2023
Subjects:
Mass media
Eschatology
Social values
Materialism
Ancient cosmology
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