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SUMMARY:Apocalyse Now: thinking about ruins and radiation
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DESCRIPTION:A half-day seminar looking at artistic and scientific respons
 es to industrial and other modern ruins\, with Jane and Louise Wilson\, 
 Paul Dobraszczyk (University of Manchester)\, Tim Edensor (Manchester Me
 tropolitan University)\, Bradley Garrett (Royal Holloway College)\, Jeff
  Hughes (University of Manchester)\, Dylan Trigg (University of Sussex)\
 n\nRuins have come to occupy a central place in visual culture: as image
 s of the aftermath of acts of terrorism or the resulting war on terror\;
  the ruin of the housing market after the recent financial crisis\; the 
 deserted towns and villages surrounding Chernobyl and Fukishima\; or a p
 ost-apocalyptic obsession in cinema. This seminar will examine contempor
 ary notions of ruin and ruination\, in relation to architecture\, the ci
 ty and history\, and calling on a diverse range of ruin obsessives from 
 the fields of philosophy\, cultural geography\, art and architectural hi
 story. Signifiers of both civilisation and barbarism\, creativity and de
 struction\, ruins call into question the solid\, the enduring and the pe
 rmanent\, representing as they do either the end of the old or the begin
 ning of something new. We seek to learn from this challenge presented by
  ruins\, whether they be created by the constructive but often brutal pr
 ocesses of modernisation\, or their opposites – the forces of destructio
 n\, both natural and unnatural\, real or imagined.\nTo book a place or f
 or more details t: 0161 275 7450
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:The Whitworth\, Manchester
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