{"id":1948,"date":"2020-11-17T16:11:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T16:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/?p=1948"},"modified":"2020-11-19T16:34:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T16:34:37","slug":"praxis-seminar-2020-21-s5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/praxis-seminar-2020-21-s5\/","title":{"rendered":"Praxis Seminar: Research Colloquium in Practical Philosophy 2020\/21, Session 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey Andrew Barash<\/p>\n<p>University of Picardie &#8211; Jules Verne<\/p>\n<h5>Collective Memory, Social Imaginaries, and the Transformation of Political Mythology in the Age of the Mass Media<\/h5>\n<p><strong>24 November 2020, 18h00 (Lisbon Time \u2014 GMT+0)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">This session will take place via streaming<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">(<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/videoconf-colibri.zoom.us\/j\/82033343169?pwd=RFB1dHpiellQZTBlclJ3bDd6WHU5dz09\">Zoom link here<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whatever structural similarities anthropologists might posit to typify and systematize the myths that have been narrated since time immemorial, I will insist in this talk on the appearance over the past decades of a <span class=\"Normal__Char\">novel <\/span>kind of political myth adapted to a specifically modern significance and function.\u00a0 How might we account for this novel function of political myth in the contemporary world?\u00a0 According to my interpretation, the contemporary singularity of its meaning and function depends on mutations on a global scale in the modes of collective experience; in the ways in which experience communicated among vast groups is collectively remembered and imaginatively deployed.\u00a0 This talk will investigate these mutations in collective modes of experience and remembrance, which may be traced to the remarkable influence of the mass media that, over the past century and a half, have relentlessly accelerated their communicative capacity and extended their global reach.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey Andrew Barash University of Picardie &#8211; Jules Verne Collective Memory, Social Imaginaries, and the Transformation of Political Mythology in the Age of the Mass Media 24 November 2020, 18h00 (Lisbon Time \u2014 GMT+0) This session will take place via streaming (Zoom link here) &nbsp; &nbsp; Abstract Whatever structural similarities anthropologists might posit to typify [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1962,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions\/1962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}