Possibly of interest.
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> Date: 24 October 2003 16:25:48 BST
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> Subject: CFP: The Spectacle and the Spectacular (UK) (11/21/03;
> 4/24/04)
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> Is there as, Guy Debord contended, no longer any sense of reality, of
> history, of time, of class? Is the world merely a spectacle, an
> asignifying mass of unrelated images in which as Cronenberg puts it in
> Videodrome, "tv is reality, and reality is less than tv"? And in the
> light of September the 11th, and the second Gulf War, are Debord's
> pronouncements all the more relevant? What does this mean for the
> possibility of political intervention; and have we all become passive
> spectators in the face of the proliferation of simulacra?
>
> Papers addressing these, and other issues in relation to the spectacle
> and the spectacular are sought for a one-day multi-disciplinary
> conference at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College.
>
> Topics might include, but are not limited to:
>
> · spectacle and war, or indeed "war as spectacle"
> · spectacle and race
> · spectacle and speculative cinema
> · spectacle and cinema: - the cinema of attractions
> · spectacular geophysical landscapes
> · spectacle; aesthetics; deleuze
> · spectacular histories
> · spectacle; theatre; performance
> · spectacular bodies / sexualities / genders
> · spectacle and the "politics" of the surface
> · spectacle; literature and the demise of meaning
> · gothic spectacles
> · spectacle; the grotesque and the carnivalesque
> · spectacular "others": imperialism, colonialism and
> constructions of the other
> · spectacle; simulation; simulacra
> · the museum/gallery/art space as spectacle
> · the spectacle and Rethinking Situationism
>
> Abstracts and panel proposals should be 200 words or less and submitted
> electronically to the conference organisers:
>
> Dr Colette Balmain ([log in to unmask]) or Dr Lois Drawmer
> ([log in to unmask])
>
> Deadline: 21st November 2003
>
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Dr Felicity Callard
Department of Geography
Queen Mary, University of London
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