{"id":655,"date":"2015-11-01T22:07:40","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T05:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comma-wordpress.english.ucsb.edu\/?p=655"},"modified":"2018-09-12T15:32:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T22:32:18","slug":"the-desert-on-the-doorstep-a-talk-by-professor-dick-hebdige-ucsb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/?p=655","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Desert on the Doorstep,&#8221; a talk by Professor Dick Hebdige (UCSB)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-656\" src=\"https:\/\/test-comma-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Hebdige.png\" alt=\"Hebdige\" width=\"953\" height=\"673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Hebdige.png 953w, https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Hebdige-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Hebdige-768x542.png 768w, https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Hebdige-260x185.png 260w, https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Hebdige-705x498.png 705w, https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Hebdige-450x318.png 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 953px) 100vw, 953px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Please join <span class=\"il\">us<\/span>\u00a0this Friday, Nov. 6th 1:00 in South Hall 2623<b> <\/b>(the Sankey Room) for a talk by Dick Hebdige (UCSB, Film &amp; Media Studies) entitled &#8220;The Desert on the Doorstep.&#8221;Professor Hebdige is the author of several important monographs including <i>Subculture: The Meaning of Style<\/i> (1979) and <i>Cut &#8216;n&#8217; Mix: Culture, Identity and Caribbean Music<\/i> (1987). The talk will draw upon research conducted through the &#8220;Desert Studies Project&#8221; (2007-15) run under the aegis of the UC Institute for Research in the Arts.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Figured simultaneously as eternally remote yet all too close to home, the Desert in the era of intensifying crisis in the Middle East and the longest drought in California\u2019s recorded rainfall history refuses to stay put. The deserts east of LA, easily accessed via the arterial sprawl of Interstate -10 serve as home to a growing number of permanent Inland Empire residents and as weekend getaway destinations for second homesteaders, tourists, off-road vehicle enthusiasts, Burners and boulderers alike.\u00a0 Hubs for agribusiness, the military-industrial complex, the casino, resort and waste disposal industries, the desert hinterlands form the literally overlooked outer- rim components of trans-nationally networked metropolitan ecologies. Drawing on the archive of the Desert Studies project a UC system wide\u00a0 interdisciplinary arts-centered research initiative centered in southern California\u2019s arid zone this talk addresses the desert\u2019s\u00a0 problematic placement within the imaginary of\u00a0 21<\/span><sup>st<\/sup><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"> century West.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us\u00a0this Friday, Nov. 6th 1:00 in South Hall 2623 (the Sankey Room) for a talk by Dick Hebdige (UCSB, Film &amp; Media Studies) entitled &#8220;The Desert on the Doorstep.&#8221;Professor Hebdige is the author of several important monographs including Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979) and Cut &#8216;n&#8217; Mix: Culture, Identity and Caribbean Music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53,54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655"}],"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=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2041,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions\/2041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}