Culture in the Keyhole: An Archaeology of Peep Media
Led by Erkki Huhato.
When: Friday, May 16, 2008, 11:30 a.m.
Where: Ellison 1714, UCSB.
Cost: Free
Age limit: Not available
Categories: Lectures
Description: Peeping is one of those issues that psychologically inclined observers tend to consider as pre- (or infra-) cultural: belonging to the “human nature” and perhaps even to our “animal nature.” Whether it originated from our innate curiosity towards the “outside,” from the survival instinct, or from the shock of witnessing the “primal scene” are issues that are of no interest in this lecture. The focus will be on "peep media" as an aspect of interfacing with technology during the past five hundred years. The lecture considers peeping as a topos, a culturally determined construct that is affected by and affects in turn other cultural forms.
Phone: 805-893-3137
Event posted April 18, 2008
Last updated April 18, 2008
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