Lectures delivered at the symposium Ballardian Architecture: Inner and Outer Space, held at the Royal Academy of Arts on 15 May 2010.
John Gray’s lecture discusses the latent and manifest content of spaces and buildings, comparing Guy Debord’s notion of the spectacle and Ballard’s investigation of celebrity culture.
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Deep-sea voyager Robert Ballard has discovered everything from 10-foot-tall tube worms to the Titanic on his ocean expeditions around the world. Ballard discusses his underwater finds and how new robotic technology allows scientists to explore the sea from ashore.
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An obsession with the nature of death lies at the heart of the human experience, but have the technological advances and scientific discoveries of the 19th and 20th centuries led us to believe we can somehow cheat it?
Join John Gray and Will Self as they discuss the great implication of Darwin’s ideas - that natural selection makes humans into animals like any other.
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