[ecrea] cfp - Mediating the Real 2: Mediations in a 'Post Truth' Era

Deadline extended to 31st August 2017

/Call for papers/

Mediating the Real 2: Mediations in a 'Post Truth' Era

*A conference at the University of Otago 22nd – 24th November 2017*

*Presented by The Performance of the Real Research Theme and the 
Department of Media, Film and Communication*

*Keynote speakers:*

*Dr Kim Toffoletti (Deakin University)*

*&*

*Dr Laurie J. Ouellette (University of Minnesota)*

‘Post-truth’ has become a buzzword in the last year generating 
think-pieces and SNS chatter lamenting 'truth' as a lost object that has 
enabled and / or smuggled in events like Brexit and the election of 
Donald Trump. With this discussion, comes a broader demonstration of 
anxiety that a true 'real' (world, political sphere, social …) has been 
either lost or obscured. The responsibility for this loss or obscurance 
has fallen firmly at the feet of 'the media' (as well as the so-called 
postmodernists).

This conference asks and unpacks the interactions of (post) truth, the 
'real' and contemporary media.

Building on and following from the success of Mediating the Real ‘1’, we 
encourage critically informed approaches – particularly drawing from the 
work of Lacan. However, this time too, we invite scholars engaged with 
Jean Baudrillard's prolific engagement in these matters.

Papers might ask but are not limited to:

  * What does post-truth mean in the contemporary media saturated context?
  * A consideration of the increasingly banal use of ‘post-truth’ (as
    OED word of the year 2016) in news chatter and the implications of
    this for understandings of 'truthful’ media
  * Where is the real located in this context? This might be through
    considerations of the Lacanian real and the possibilities for
    subjectivity and sociality – particularly in terms of the potential
    to build social bonds within the ‘discourse of capitalism’
  * What does the anguished / anxious response to 'post truth',
    particularly in popular and social media, tell us about contemporary
    subjectivity and sociality?
  * What do Baudrillard’s critical interventions tell us about the
    contemporary production of reality?

*Key information:*

*Organisers and contacts:* Dr Brett Nicholls ((brett.nicholls /at/ otago.ac.nz) 
<mailto:(brett.nicholls /at/ otago.ac.nz)>) and Dr Rosemary Overell 
((rosemary.overell /at/ otago.ac.nz)) <mailto:(rosemary.overell /at/ otago.ac.nz)%29>

*Abstract information: *please email (rosemary.overell /at/ otago.ac.nz) 
<mailto:(rosemary.overell /at/ otago.ac.nz)> a 250-500 word abstract and 150 
word biography by *31^st  August 2017.*

*Registration: *$95 (casual / sessional workers and postgraduates) and 
$225 (academic and waged workers) – includes cocktail function, lunches 
and teas

*Dinner: * $60

*Venue: *Richardson, 6^th  floor, Room 4 North

*More info: *

http://www.otago.ac.nz/performance-of-the-real/index.html 
<http://www.otago.ac.nz/performance-of-the-real/index.html>

http://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/index.html 
<http://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/index.html>

https://www.facebook.com/performanceofthereal 
<https://www.facebook.com/performanceofthereal>

https://www.facebook.com/mediafilmcomms/ 
<https://www.facebook.com/mediafilmcomms/>



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