Andreas Broeckmann on Thu, 1 Aug 1996 11:39:43 +0100


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Thinking Alien, Leeds/UK, Sept. 1996


Thinking Alien

An inter-disciplinary conference sponsored by the Centre for Cultural
Studies, Leeds
University, and the Centre for the study of Cultural Values, Lancaster
University
to be held at Leeds University on 16 and 17 September, 1996.

Areas for panels include:
Alien Being: Post-humanism: theory and technology - What's the Matter with
meaning:
the new materialism and the linguistic turn - Alienations: postcolonial
theory - The
Alien Sex: feminism and post-structuralism
Alien World: Images of the Spectacle; legacy of the situationists - Alien
Politics:
post-structuralism and the political - Writing the Future: science fiction
and cultural
theory - It's the End of the world As we Know It: contemporary
apocalypticisms and
the end of history
Alien Image: Beyonmd Aesthetics: crises of representation - The Art Object:
art as
text or art as function/matter? - The Vision Machine: technologies of
visibility,
logistics of perception - Lines of Flight: art as resistance
Alien Sound: Music Beyond frontiers: the meeting of high and low culture
industries -
Becoming Music: the micropolitics of noise and dance - Technologies of Sound:
digitality versus traditional sound - Corporate Subcultures: the spaces and
places of
modern dance music

Dan Welch/Drew Hemment, Centre for the Study of Cultural Values, University of
Lancaster, Lancaster LA1 4YT.alien@lancaster.ac.uk
or
Simon O'Sullivan/Nigel Liddell, Dept. of Fine Art, University of Leeds,
Leeds LS2
9JT.finsdos@leeds.ac.uk


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coming up:
DEAF96, the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival, 17 - 22 Sept 1996 <www.v2.nl/DEAF/>
(DEAF96 exhibition - 29 Sept)