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Fiction of Worlds and Struggles/Fictions des Mondes et de Leurs Luttes
Fiction of Worlds and Struggles/Fictions des Mondes et de Leurs Luttes
Tuesday, 12 July 2016: 10:45-12:15
Location: Hörsaal 23 (Main Building)
RC14 Sociology of Communication, Knowledge and Culture (host committee) Language: English and French
As a mirror or contrast to sociological approach of struggles for a better world, fictions and their worlds are a sphere for struggles for representation as well as struggles opposing representations.
In the very heart of popular culture, its avant-garde, elites or mainstreams, literature, movies, games, comics, mangas, performances question social, environmental, technical and political orders and disorders. They experiment dystopias and utopias; players, readers and actors often live these worlds of fiction as real life, through avatars and pseudonyms or as co-authors in interactive digital creation. The world of work and organisation also contributes to fiction-making for management, enrolment or resistance purposes: serious games, video for training and control, storytelling. Social and political struggles are represented, experienced and somewhat fought.
The session will host presentation of works, plans and devices, production, practice and consumption in the fields of literature, imaginary creation, games and organisation.
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