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present Reproducing Nature:
A Lecture
by Richard Grusin |
7:30 p.m., March 7, 2001 EESAT 120
America's national parks are
best understood as complex cultural representations or productions,
not as instances of nature preservation. Grusin argues that nature
is not only culturally constructed, but technologically constructed--that
national parks function as technologies for the cultural construction
of nature. He focuses on the origins of three "major"
national parks--Yosemite, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon--as
sites whose particularity and specificity emerge from an affiliation
of diverse cultural practices and beliefs.
| Lecture is free and open to the public. For special accommodation, contact us at 565-2266 or philosophy@unt.edu. |
Grusin is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies and former Chair of the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of Transcendentalist Hermeneutics: Institutional Authority and the Higher Criticism of the Bible (Duke, 1991); and, with Jay David Bolter, Remediation: Understanding New Media (MIT, 1999). He has just completed a book-length project on the problematics of representation involved in the creation of national parks: The Reproduction of Nature: Culture, Technology, and the Origins of America's National Parks. |
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CEP - PHIL - UNT - February 22, 2001 |
