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SUMMARY:Dualist Techniques For Materialist Imaginaries: Matter and Mind i
 n the 1951 Festival of Britain
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DESCRIPTION:This seminar is part of the CHSTM Seminars Series Sept-Dec 20
 15. CHSTM seminars will be held fortnightly on Tuesdays at 4pm in Room 2
 .57 Simon Building\, Brunswick Street\, Manchester\, M13 9PL https://goo
 .gl/maps/RTFk4 with tea and biscuits from 3.30pm. All are welcome and pl
 ease feel free pass this list on to interested colleagues.              
                                                                         
                                                                         
                                                                         
                                                                         
                                                                         
                                                                         
                                                                         
                                                                         
                                                                         
                                                                         
                                                                         
                                                                         
                                  The Festival of Britain corresponded to
  the centenary celebration of the Great Exhibition of 1851. Imagined by 
 the newly-elected government of Clement Atlee as an opportunity to renew
  national pride and foster patriotism\, the Festival sought to celebrate
  a long history of the British people. At the Festival\, exhibits on sci
 ence\, technology\, and medicine were especially prominent. On London’s 
 South Bank\, the organizers constructed a “Dome of Discovery” focused on
  the practical benefits of the progress of science in Britain. That giga
 ntic exhibit was augmented by an equally impressive exhibit at the Scien
 ce Museum in South Kensington. In hindsight\, the Science Museum’s exhib
 it appears to have propounded an unusually materialistic and mechanistic
  understanding of the world for 1950s Britain. The reductionist metanarr
 ative that organized the overall exhibit invoked in the minds of the aud
 ience a simplifying unitary conception of nature\, one that built from a
  sub-atomic universe a whole world of living creatures. Yet in a fascina
 ting way invisible and unacknowledged dualisms haunted the imaginary and
  evocative world of knowledge engineered within the confines of the Muse
 um’s exhibit. In particular the techniques of persuasion the organizers 
 used to convey their materialistic and mechanistic story to the public i
 ronically relied upon intentionally engineered psychotechnic illusions i
 n assembling the physical space of the exhibit. In this way would a tech
 nical dualism ultimately haunt the audience’s materialist and mechanisti
 c experience of matter\, life and the nature of the universe. 
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LOCATION:2.57\, Simon Building\, Manchester
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