Week of Events
Sunday, June 15, 2025
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June 15, 2025 -Through the Lens of Spectacle: Panel 1, Oversight
Through the Lens of Spectacle: Panel 1, Oversight
“The spectacle is the bad dream of modern society in chains, expressing nothing more than its wish for sleep,” Guy Debord declared in The Society of the Spectacle (1967): it is “a permanent opium war.” A half-century later, the specter of the spectacle continues to haunt Marxist cultural studies. In two linked panels, the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture proposes to track “the worldwide division of spectacular tasks” from lens manufacture to retail logistics, stadiums to camptowns, polar expeditions to spring festivals, as well as revolutionary specters in novels and borders, assassinations and squares.
Monday, June 16, 2025
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Tuesday, June 17, 2025
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Wednesday, June 18, 2025
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Thursday, June 19, 2025
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Friday, June 20, 2025
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Saturday, June 21, 2025
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June 21, 2025 -Through the Lens of Spectacle: Panel 2, Witness
Through the Lens of Spectacle: Panel 2, Witness
“The spectacle is the bad dream of modern society in chains, expressing nothing more than its wish for sleep,” Guy Debord declared in The Society of the Spectacle (1967): it is “a permanent opium war.” A half-century later, the specter of the spectacle continues to haunt Marxist cultural studies. In two linked panels, the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture proposes to track “the worldwide division of spectacular tasks” from lens manufacture to retail logistics, stadiums to camptowns, polar expeditions to spring festivals, as well as revolutionary specters in novels and borders, assassinations and squares.