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Lecture | The Democratic Surround: Management by Media from the Cold War to Facebook

Thursday, March 31, 2016, 6:00 pm

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Delivered by Fred Turner, Stanford University.

Today we find ourselves moving from screen to screen across the day – from our iPhones, to our tablets, to our desktops, laptops, and back again. Little do we know that we are living out the multimedia dreams of several dozen Cold War social scientists, a handful of Bauhaus artists, and the musician John Cage.

This talk tracks those dreams from the anti-Fascist propaganda of World War II to the psychedelic Happenings of the 1960s. It shows how multi-image, multi-sound environments once promised to bring about a radically democratic America. And it shows how that political promise slowly melted away into the narcissism of 1960s multimedia art. With that history in hand, it concludes, we can see how aesthetic tactics once summoned to oppose fascism have in fact set the foundation for the surveillance-driven, consumer-oriented media of our own time.

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