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Host: McMaster University
Organizers: Susie O'Brien, Imre Szeman
Deadline for abstracts: May 31, 2001
Description:
The term "content providers" captures the paradoxical position of culture
in globalization. In the new global economy, culture has become
"content," and cultural workers and critics have become "content
providers" whose work is more essential to the operations of the economy
than ever before, but only as a content that does nothing to challenge the
structure or form of the new world order. "Content Providers of the World
Unite!" calls on critics and cultural workers to consider the challenges
that globalization poses for an adequate understanding of cultural
politics and the politics of culture at the present time. How do we make
sense of a time in which culture seems to have become both more and less
essential to the prevailing economic order, a time in which the
(older) relationship between culture and politics seems both more
difficult and necessary to maintain? These are amongst some of the questions we hope to
address at this conference.
Speakers: Len Findlay ~ Naomi Klein ~ Dot Tuer
Date received: November 23, 2000
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