The BABEL Conference 2015: Off the Books, University of Toronto, October 9 -11

This is a conference that McLuhanists and media ecologists, among others, would be interested in.

*an image from Sean Kernan, Secret Books

BABEL Conference: OFF THE BOOKS: Making, Breaking, Binding, Burning, Leaving, Gathering

The BABEL Working Group is a non-hierarchical scholarly collective and para-institutional desiring-assemblage. BABEL’s chief commitment is the cultivation of a more mindful being-together with others who work alongside us in the ruined towers of the rubble of the post-historical university. 

From Oct. 9-11, the University of Toronto will host the BABEL Working Group Conference “OFF THE BOOKS: Making, Breaking, Binding, Burning, Leaving, Gathering.” The conference has a dual focus: on the one hand, a rigorous study of book history and media studies, and on the other, serious discussions about academic activism, para-academic pursuits, and the current state and future directions of the modern university. The conference also has a number of artistic and performative contributions.

The…