Call for Papers
DEADLINE EXTENDED: Abstract Submission Due FEB 18th
“The Succession of Simulacra: The Legacy of Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007)”
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
April 18-19, 2008
University of California, Santa Barbara
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