THE SPECTACLE AND THE SPECTACULAR
24th April 2004
UPDATE:
The deadline for call for papers has been extended until 9th January
2004.
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. For full
details please see previous listing.
proposals of 200 words, and queries to either:
Dr Colette Balmain
cbalma01@bcuc.ac.uk
or
Dr Lois Drawmer
ldraw01@bcuc.ac.uk
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