Il 18 ed il 19 apriel si terrà, a Santa Barbara, presso l’UC, una conferenza dedicata a Jean Baudrillard, scomparso recentemente.
Per chi fosse interessato, qui sotto il testo della call:
The recent death of Jean Baudrillard has stimulated an engagement with his work and its legacy across various fields both within academia and beyond it. As seen in the recent “Remembering Baudrillard” issue of the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, his ideas continue to foster productive discussion.
Many of Baudrillard’s terms and concepts, “hyperrality,” “simulacra,” “alibi” and “the code” continue to proliferate in not only theoretical, but popular texts as well. Whether or not we accept their validity, how can we apply, transform, refigure, critique and salvage these ideas?
What has his work fostered in the different modes of critical theory: social scientific, cultural, literary, technological, popular, communication and new media theory?
We invite papers engaging the future of this discussion.
How do we succeed Baudrillard?
How should his work and thought be disseminated, disintegrated, dispersed, and employed?
We welcome papers responding (but not limited) to the following topics:
- Simulacra and Second Life
- The Evil Demons of Images and the Materiality of Text
- The Empire Strikes Back: American Intervention in Iraq
- The Desert and the Real: Mediating Iraq
- Mirror(s) of Production
- Consumer Culture
- Baudrillard Broadly: Influences, Allusions, Legacy
- Stockpiling the Past
- The Metaphysic of the Code
- The Evil Genie of Passion
- The Historicity of Postmodernism
- Universalization, Globalization and Technological Progress
- The Desert of the Matrix: Misreading Baudrillard
- Advertising and the Ecology of Media
- Guerrilla Graffiti Art
Please send a 250 word abstract as well as brief biographical information to David Roh at roh@umail.ucsb.edu.
Deadline for submission:
Monday, February 18th
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