imperfect, adj.
and n.
ɪmˈpɜːfɪkt
5.
Grammar . Applied to a tense which denotes action going on but not completed; usually to the past tense of incomplete or progressive action (more fully called past imperfect , formerly sometimes preter-imperfect ), as Greek ἔ γρα
Latin scribēbam , French j'écrivais , English I was writing ϕ ον ,
We invite you to join our visual culture seminar in which we hope to share and explore recent concerns with the past and its place in the present, a present increasingly overinvested in the value of contemporary. Our annual theme is disorientation , and this term we are concerned with the phenomenon of the mirage and the fata morgana .
Monday, 08 February 2016, 6-8pm
Joint reading discussion:
Friedrich Kittler, chapter 'Film’ in Gramophone , Film, Typewriter and
Michelle Warren 'Shimmering Philology' in postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 5 (2014).
Wednesday, 02 March 2016, 6-8pm
Chris Pinney
The Waterless Sea: A Cultural and Political History of Mirages
Friday, 18 March 2016, 5.30-7.30pm
Carolyn Dinshaw (NYU) and Marget Long
'Inverted lands and queer objects’
Mirages, digital maps and the Historical Problem of Location
The seminar is free and open to all.
Updates and text related to the sessions are posted on our website! https://www.ucl.ac.uk/art-history/news-events/past-imperfect
UCL, History of Art Department, Gordon Square 20-21, SR 6 (Reading group) or SR 3-4.