日　時：2023年5月30日（火）16:20-17:50 場　所：東京藝術大学千住キャンパス 3F 第3講義室 講演者：Nick Prior（エディンバラ大学教授） 司　会：毛利嘉孝（東京藝術大学大学院 国際芸術創造研究科教授）

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Date: 30 May (Tue), 16:20-17:50
Place: Senju Campus, 3F Lecture room 3
Guest Speaker: Nick Prior (Professor of Cultural Sociology, University of Edinburgh)
Moderator: Yoshitaka Mori (Professor, Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts)
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Culture and Crisis in the Age of Superabundance: Music and Creativity at a Crossroads
Nick Prior, University of Edinburgh, U.K.

In this session I’d like to explore with you some recent attempts to characterize, diagnose and address our global predicament and where art and culture fit into these concerns. It’s an attempt to think aloud around a number of themes, often separated, but which are entangled and speak to a range of urgent and pressing issues: most notably, environmental catastrophe (the climate crisis, in particular), the acute sense of disorientation experienced in increasingly digitalized societies; and what might be called a “crisis of over-production” in the sphere of culture. While my examples will come from across the fields of culture, it will be music that will be the primary focus. It’s also where we often see the beginnings of trends that are later taken up elsewhere – streaming and piracy, for instance, but also terms like the “gig economy”. The main contention is that we are at a critical moment - a crossroads - with respect to digitalisation as a process of almost unfettered production and circulation where quantity becomes both form and content. The driving motifs will therefore be: superabundance, growth, acceleration and excess. It’s not just that everything happens too fast (a motif of speed associated with the idea and practice of accelerationism) but that everything happens too much. It’s this superabundance that is implicated in tipping us into a crisis of intelligibility and sustainability and which requires critical understanding and action. 

Nick Prior: University of Edinburgh
Website: https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/sta