Trip Out! Symposium

This year’s symposium considers human relationships to technologies of altered perception. We ask participants to think with and through the trip—a timespace marked by a stumble, a tip into vertigo, a virtual reality, augmented perception, drug consumption, madness, misperception, and/or hallucination. The trip is a shift in “affective attentiveness” (Cichosz, 2014) or a “journey to new realms of consciousness” (Leary, 1963), and the technologies of tripping include airplanes, acid tabs, trance-inducing meditation, white rabbits, and VR headsets, to name only a few. We hope to bring together scholars and students whose work focuses on perception as technological affordance and reality as already-altered, mediated experience.

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