Postponed to November 7: Technology on Safari: The Racial Topology of African Natures

***Postponed to November 7***The word safari recalls a colonial past, resonates in the present, and reaches towards an imagined future of journey and exploration. Safari reverberates not only through time, but through space as well: across the Atlantic and the Sahara and into East Africa. This talk will explore the intimate relationship between perceptions of racial difference and both internal and external nature on safari in Northern Tanzania. Through the movement of safari, technologies of travel—like public media, conservation areas, automobility, photography, and the souvenir—not only enframe the world-as-view, but approach the more poetic aspects of techné. This enables both ‘native’ and natures to be viewed and consumed precisely because they are first fabricated, conjoined and commodified