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| The Acciona Chair creates a new cultural event in Madrid  Acciona has signed a cooperation agreement with SUR (School of Artistic Professions) that includes the creation of the Acciona Chair, a series of master lectures by prestigious intellectuals that will be open to the general public. These will be held once a month in the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, the institution that founded SUR together with La Fábrica.The thinker Fredric Jameson will inaugurate the Acciona Chair tomorrow Tuesday December 2nd at 19:30h in the Sala Valle-Inclán of the Círculo de Bellas Artes with a lecture titled Globalization and Literature, in collaboration with the UNED (Spanish Distance Learning University). Based on references such as the work of Alejandro González Iñárritu or the miniseries Traffik, Jameson will analyze the multidimensional nature of globalization. During the event, Fredric Jameson will be presented with the Gold Medal of the Círculo de Bellas Artes, the top award granted by the institution and given to creators and intellectuals whose work has made a decisive contribution to the renewal of contemporary art and culture. SUR's program includes a monthly master lecture by an internationally prestigious guest speaker to offer students his/her opinions on a theme related to the course. Acciona's support for this activity helps to gives it a high public profile. Acciona will also offer five scholarships to study in SUR. Biography of Fredric Jameson Fredric Jameson (Cleveland, 1934) is one of the most highly recognized critics in the field of contemporary culture. He studied Letters at Yale, where he earned his doctorate in 1959 with a thesis on Sartre. Over the years he has taught in Harvard, Yale and Duke universities, among others. Since the 1970s he has written a large number of books and articles on literary and cultural analysis. His framework of analysis is based on a Marxist methodology, mainly examining the relationship between the development of capitalism and cultural production. According to Jameson, we are now observing a mutation of the forms of cultural and media expression in the historical landscape of capitalism. For Jameson, the esthetic forms that define postmodernity correspond to the globalization phase of the market. Among the books he has written are The Prison-house of Language (1972), The Political Unconscious, Narrative as Socially Symbolic Act (1981), Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991), The Geopolitical Aesthetic, Cinema and Space in the World System (1992), The Politics of Theory (1984), Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991), On Cultural Studies (1993) or The Seeds of Time (2000). write your comments about the article :: © 2014 Construction News :: home page |