The HARVARD/MIT SUBWAY LECTURE SERIES presents:
"Cecil Rhodes, Mine-Engineers, and Migrant Workers: Coproduction and Cognition in the Diamond Mines of Kimberley, South Africa" Dr. William Storey, Millsaps College Tuesday, November 30 4:00 pm, MIT E51-149 Cecil Rhodes figures prominently in the environmental and technological history of Southern Africa and the British Empire. Previous Rhodes biographers have focused on his involvement in politics, paying little attention to geology, mining, telegraphs, railroads, and farming in his life's story. This presentation will show that Rhodes was a technopolitical visionary who promoted advanced engineering while at the same time pressing for monopoly capitalism and racial discrimination. The talk will focus on Rhodes' diamond-mines in Kimberley and his vineyards in the Western Cape while addressing issues of method. How is a technopolitical vision of an individual best assessed and described? How does an individual "see" a vision and then make it legible to key backers? To what extent does a visionary like Rhodes embody the visions of multiple individuals?
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