Event overview
A series of seminars on Art and Instrumentality.
What Use Art?
A series of seminars on Art and Instrumentality.
October 2011 | April 2012
InC, Continental Philosophy Research Group. University of London
http://www.gold.ac.uk/inc
The seminars will be structured around four main areas:
- Art and philosophy: the first topic interrogates the place philosophy finds for art within its own systems. Why does art often get used to solve questions of ethics, metaphysics and politics, rather than being a question for philosophy in itself?
- Use and validation: the second topic investigates the arguments for art’s validation/non- validation in relation to its description as being either useful/useless (art and education, theory and practice);
- The end of art: the third topic looks at contemporary reading of art’s death, framed in relation to its use;
- Survival: the fourth topic aims to tackle the issue surrounding the survival/non-survival of the arts in our current political environment. What art would have to do, or what use it would need to fulfil to survive, and whether this survival of the arts at all cost is to be considered desirable.
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Mark Currie is Professor of Contemporary Literature at Queen Mary University.
Mark Currie’s research focuses on the theory of narrative, and particularly on the description of temporal structures in narrative and fiction. He is the author of Postmodern Narrative Theory (Palgrave 1998; Second Edition 2011), Difference (Routledge 2004) and About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time (Edinburgh University Press, 2007), and the editor of Metafiction (Longman, 1995). His work explores questions about the relationship of fictional narrative to critical, linguistic, social, cultural and philosophical knowledge, and his recent work has consistently addressed questions about tense and time in writing.
He is currently working on a book about unexpected events in fiction and in life, about the way that narrative is disposed towards the representation of unexpected turns, and the way that narratology has understood and failed to understand issues of anticipation, expectation and future orientation in the reading process. The book is also an assessment of the state of contemporary narrative theory and its efforts to describe narrative temporality in diverse contexts such as cognitive narratology and phenomenology.
Before joining the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary in 2010, Mark was Professor of Contemporary Writing at the University of East Anglia, Professor of English at Anglia Ruskin University, Head of Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Westminster, Lecturer in English at the University of Dundee and Adjunct Professor at the University of Syracuse.
Publications:
About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
Difference The New Critical Idiom. Routledge, 2004.
Postmodern Narrative Theory (Second Edition) Macmillan/Palgrave, 2011. Forthcoming.
Metafiction Longman, Longman Critical Readers series. (London and New York, Longman, 1995). Edited with an introductory essay.
‘Universals’ in Glossalalia Edinburgh University Press, 2003.
‘Encounters with Structuralism and the Invention of Poststructuralism in the United States’ in Modern North American Criticism and Theory ed. J. Wolfreys. Edinburgh University Press, 2006.
‘The End of Difference’ in The Condition of the Subject ed. Philip Martin. Palgrave, 2006
‘Controlling Time: the Proleptic Past Perfect in Ishiguro’s Never Let me Go’ in Kazuo Ishiguro ed. Matthews and Groes London and New York: Continuum, 2009 pp. 91-103.
‘The Expansion of Tense’ Narrative (Special Edition: Narrative Temporalities) Volume 17, No 3, October 2009, pp. 353-367.
‘The Novel and the Moving Now’ Novel: a Forum on Fiction Volume 42 Number 2, Summer 2009, pp. 318-326.
‘Stuck in Time: Feminism and Futurity’ Textual Practice, Spring 2010.
Review Article Bryony Randall Modernism, Daily Time and Everyday Life, Novel: a Forum on Fiction, Summer 2011
Dates & times
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15 Nov 2011 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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