[csaa-forum] Done it again: Media Seminar @ UNSW

[James Donald]

With age comes an increasing inability to know 
which week I am in: hence the wrong date on the 
announcement of Julian Murphet's seminar - which 
is this coming Wednesday, 26 April.  Apologies 
all round.
JD

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>Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:53:03 +1000
>To: arts-events at explode.unsw.edu.au
>From: James Donald <j.donald at unsw.edu.au>
>Subject: Media Seminar @ UNSW
>
>UNSW Media Film and Theatre Seminars
>Wednesday 19 April 2006
>5 p.m. Webster Building 327
>
>Mapping Media Ecologies
>Uneven Development and the Critical Chiasmus
>
>The concept of a 'media ecology' has had 
>intermittent success since the heyday of 
>Marshall McLuhan's peak of theoretical 
>productivity; at its worst lapsing into puerile 
>positivism and celebration, while at its best 
>finding it difficult to position itself 
>effectively vis-à-vis other, sexier media 
>concepts. In this paper, Murphet sketches a 
>dynamic model of Darwinian and Freudian 
>energetics in a competitive media environment. 
>Drawing on the work of Luhmann, Kittler, Jameson 
>and Hansen, the argument ultimately finds a 
>critical destination in Benjamin's Freud as a 
>basis for understanding the struggle for 
>survival between media, and the chiasmic 
>relation between the most 'advanced' and most 
>'archaic' strata of a given media ecology.
>
>Julian Murphet is Senior Lecturer in the 
>Department of English at Sydney University, 
>author of Literature and Race in Los Angeles 
>(2001), Brett Easton Ellis' American Psycho: A 
>Reader's Guide (2002), co-author of Narrative 
>and Media (2005), co-editor of Literature and 
>Visual Technologies: Writing After Cinema 
>(2003), and author of various articles and 
>chapters on postmodernism, theory, race and film.
>
>--
>Dr James Donald
>Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
>Professor of Film Studies, School of Media, Film and Theatre
>University of New South Wales
>Sydney
>NSW 2052
>Australia
>
>Telephone	(02)9385 4858
>Mobile		0433 126445
>Facsimile		(02)9662 2335
>
>International
>Telephone	+612 9385 4858
>Mobile		+61433 126445
>Facsimile		+612 9662 2335


-- 
Dr James Donald
Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Professor of Film Studies, School of Media, Film and Theatre
University of New South Wales
Sydney
NSW 2052
Australia

Telephone	(02)9385 4858
Mobile		0433 126445
Facsimile		(02)9662 2335

International
Telephone	+612 9385 4858
Mobile		+61433 126445
Facsimile		+612 9662 2335

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