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<div>With age comes an increasing inability to know which week I am
in: hence the wrong date on the announcement of Julian Murphet's
seminar - which is this coming Wednesday, 26 April. Apologies
all round.</div>
<div>JD</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2<br>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:53:03 +1000<br>
To: arts-events@explode.unsw.edu.au<br>
From: James Donald <j.donald@unsw.edu.au><br>
Subject: Media Seminar @ UNSW<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"><font face="Garamond">UNSW
Media Film and Theatre Seminars</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"><font
face="Garamond">Wednesday 19 April 2006</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"><font face="Garamond">5
p.m. Webster Building<font size="-1" color="#000000"><b>
327</b></font></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"><font
face="Garamond"><br></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"><font face="Garamond"
size="+3" color="#FF0000">Mapping Media Ecologies</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"><font face="Garamond"
size="+1" color="#FF0000">Uneven Development and the Critical
Chiasmus</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font
face="Garamond"><br></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Garamond" size="+2">The
concept of a 'media ecology' has had intermittent success since the
heyday of Marshall McLuhan's peak of theoretical productivity; at its
worst lapsing into puerile positivism and celebration, while at its
best finding it difficult to position itself effectively<i> vis-<font
color="#000000">à</font>-vis</i> other, sexier media concepts. In
this paper, Murphet sketches a dynamic model of Darwinian and Freudian
energetics in a competitive media environment. Drawing on the work of
Luhmann, Kittler, Jameson and Hansen, the argument ultimately finds a
critical destination in Benjamin's Freud as a basis for understanding
the struggle for survival between media, and the chiasmic relation
between the most 'advanced' and most 'archaic' strata of a given media
ecology.</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Garamond" size="+1"><i>Julian
Murphet is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Sydney
University, author of</i> Literature and Race in Los Angeles<i>
(2001),</i> Brett Easton Ellis'<i> American Psycho</i>: A Reader's
Guide<i> (2002), co-author of</i> Narrative and Media<i> (2005),
co-editor of</i> Literature and Visual Technologies: Writing After
Cinema<i> (2003), and author of various articles and chapters on
postmodernism, theory, race and film.</i></font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Garamond">Dr James Donald<br>
Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences<br>
Professor of Film Studies, School of Media, Film and Theatre<br>
University of New South Wales<br>
Sydney<br>
NSW 2052<br>
Australia<br>
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<div>Dr James Donald<br>
Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences<br>
Professor of Film Studies, School of Media, Film and Theatre<br>
University of New South Wales<br>
Sydney<br>
NSW 2052<br>
Australia<br>
<br>
Telephone<x-tab> </x-tab>(02)9385 4858<br>
Mobile<x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>0433
126445<br>
Facsimile<x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>(02)9662 2335<br>
<br>
International<br>
Telephone<x-tab> </x-tab>+612 9385 4858<br>
Mobile<x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>+61433 126445<br>
Facsimile<x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>+612
9662 2335<br>
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