{"id":647,"date":"2015-10-01T22:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T05:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comma-wordpress.english.ucsb.edu\/?p=647"},"modified":"2018-09-12T15:48:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T22:48:30","slug":"commas-2015-16-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/?p=647","title":{"rendered":"COMMA&#8217;s 2015-16 Theme: &#8220;The Desert of the Real&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-640 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/test-comma-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/dali.jpg\" alt=\"dali\" width=\"640\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/dali.jpg 640w, https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/dali-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/dali-450x291.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"il\">As decided at the<\/span>\u00a0organizational\u00a0meeting\u00a0on Thursday, Oct. 1, COMMA&#8217;s 2015-16 theme will be <strong>&#8220;The Desert of the Real.&#8221;<\/strong> The series will investigate the\u00a0desert\u2019s arid affordances and apocalyptic imaginaries. As sites of political and aesthetic revolution, deserts solicit alternative\u00a0modes of viewing, thinking, and being. Please join us all year for\u00a0featured a film series, reading groups, and talks by scholars who traversed terrains both rich and desolate.\u00a0Our first event will be a screening and discussion of\u00a0Werner Herzog&#8217;s <i>Where the Green Ants Dream<\/i> (1984) on Friday, October 16th. Wine and snacks will be provided as we kick off our year long series!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As decided at the\u00a0organizational\u00a0meeting\u00a0on Thursday, Oct. 1, COMMA&#8217;s 2015-16 theme will be &#8220;The Desert of the Real.&#8221; The series will investigate the\u00a0desert\u2019s arid affordances and apocalyptic imaginaries. As sites of political and aesthetic revolution, deserts solicit alternative\u00a0modes of viewing, thinking, and being. Please join us all year for\u00a0featured a film series, reading groups, and talks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2043,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/2043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}