Philosophy and Popular Culture - 2009 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association
Venue: Albuquerque Hyatt Regency
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102, United States
Event Date/Time: Feb 25, 2009 | End Date/Time: Feb 28, 2009 |
Registration Date: Dec 31, 2008 | |
Early Registration Date: Nov 15, 2008 | |
Abstract Submission Date: Dec 01, 2008 |
Description
• Theories of popular culture
• Elements of popular culture analysis
• Issues of identity and popular culture
• Conceptual entities of identity and popular culture
• Issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, cultural imperialism and censorship and popular culture
• Philosophical issues explored in popular culture
• Views of philosophy in popular culture
• Philosophical frameworks engaged in popular culture (e.g. Cartesian mind-body dualism in the Matrix Trilogy)
• Epistemology and Popular Culture
• Phenomenology and Popular Culture