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are a few places still available for this year’s Thinking Out Loud lectures. Please register if you would like to attend:
<span style="color:red"><a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/thinkingoutloud">www.uws.edu.au/thinkingoutloud</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Philosophy@UWS, in collaboration with Fordham University Press, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the State Library of New South Wales warmly invite you to the 2014 “Thinking Out Loud: The Sydney Lectures in Philosophy and Society.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This year’s lectures, titled <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>The Aesthetic Supermarket</i><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">will be delivered by <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Professor Peter Szendy</b>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">What is art? Is it an aesthetic experience for the few or a mass activity to change the world</span><span style="color:#1F497D">?
</span>For Peter Szendy, this is a false dilemma. In our global economy the experience of art, he argues, is parallel to the workings of the market. Art trades images, the market trades commodities. In the aesthetic supermarket of our day both art and the market
rely on exchange to realize their aims. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Monday, May 5, 2014, Lecture 1: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>“From the Department Store to the Shopping Mall: Cinema and its Markets</i><i>”</i><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wednesday, May 7,2014,Lecture 2:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>“The Value of images</i><i>”</i><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Friday, May 9,2014,Lecture 3: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>“The Commodity Gaze</i><i>”</i><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">5.30 pm to 7.30 pm (including drinks reception from 5.30 to 6pm)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Metcalfe Auditorium (State Library of NSW)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">$10 per lecture or $25 for the entire series, booking essential<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red"><a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/thinkingoutloud">www.uws.edu.au/thinkingoutloud</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">- - - - - - - - -<br>
Dimitris Vardoulakis<br>
University of Western Sydney<br>
School of Humanities and Communication Arts<br>
Bankstown Campus, 7.G.10<br>
Locked Bag 1797<br>
Penrith, NSW 2751<br>
Australia</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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