Please RSVP and join us for the 2017 Spring Symposium

Architecture, Phantasmagoria, and the Culture of Contemporary Capitalism

Organized by Professor Libero Andreotti

This symposium addresses the concept of phantasmagoria in architecture, unearthing its various manifestations in the contemporary culture of spectacle. Participants from a variety of fields at the intersection of architecture, technology, and political philosophy will examine the history of phantasmagoria from the late eighteenth century to the present and the place it occupies in the writings of Marx, Benjamin, Adorno, and others. More specifically, participants will discuss its role in analyses of capitalist commodity fetishism where, along with the notions of the spectral and the fantastic, it is used to question, and occasionally to subvert, the relationship between ‘reality’ and ‘illusion’. 

Click link for more details and to RSVP - https://arch.gatech.edu/architecture-phantasmagoria-and-culture-contemporary-capitalism-symposium