Timetable: 10h - 13.30h and 17h - 20.30h

For some time, we have been accustomed to the fact that disciplines such as political science, literary criticism, architecture and sociology have abandoned the use of their previously clear limits. This has been particularly evident in those areas that tackle the concepts of culture and identity. As Perry Anderson has said, the disciplines began to intersect between each other in hybrid, transversal studies that could no longer be rigorously ascribed to one area or another, to the extent that they became virtually unclassifiable. It seems an undeniable fact that this intertwining and porosity of discourses is part of a turn which, notwithstanding the ambiguity and evasiveness of the term, has become known as ‘post-modern’.

Without wishing to recommence a debate that was as generalised as it was fleeting, in this workshop we aim to reflect jointly on the consequences of postmodernism - to explore how it has become difficult to separate research and contemporary creation from the transformation produced by those fertile interstices, or to detach them from the emergence of new visual, narrative and artistic languages.

Speakers:
Enrique Lynch (Lecturer in Philosophy. UB)
Manuel Cruz (Lecturer in Philosophy. UB)
Pere Portabella (filmmaker)
Ricardo Menéndez Salmón (author)

Luis Alfonso Herrera Robles (sociologist, UACJ), Leonardo Novelo (architect, ETSAB), Martha Palacio (philologist, UB), M. Angeles Sabiote (political scientist, IUEE), Anna Herranz (political scientist, IUEE), Irene Herranz (philologist, UB)

Coordination:
Enrique Díaz Alvárez (Philosopher. UB)
Yago Mellado (Intercultural Dynamics Programme. CIDOB)

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