{"id":1556,"date":"2021-06-07T16:36:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T23:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/devuwcps\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=1556"},"modified":"2021-06-07T16:36:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T23:36:23","slug":"the-face-of-god-a-historiographic-fugue-on-performance-and-flight","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/event\/the-face-of-god-a-historiographic-fugue-on-performance-and-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"The Face of God: A Historiographic Fugue on Performance and Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor\u00a0<a class=\"views-ajax-processed-processed\" href=\"https:\/\/drama.washington.edu\/people\/scott-magelssen\">Scott Magelssen<\/a>&#8216;s talk\u00a0<em>The Face of God:\u00a0<\/em><em>A Historiographic Fugue on Performance and Flight<\/em>, is excerpted from his book-length study about the cultural and political significance of aviation and space flight in the United States. Here is what he would like to share with prospective listeners:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I draw the title of this talk from the last line of pilot-poet John Gillespie Magee, Jr.\u2019s poem \u201cHigh Flight,\u201d which describes the sublime experience of the aviator in divine terms. A rendition of \u201cHigh Flight\u201d accompanied a short Air Force film (with an F-15 fighter jet conducting aerobatic maneuvers against the backdrop of heavens) that played every morning on network television as I grew up in the 1980s, immediately following the National Anthem that began the broadcast day. For kids of my age, in the late Cold War\u2019s most angstful years of doomsday rhetoric, our televisions delivered such performative montages of poetry, patriotism and the jingoistic sublime as a daily ritual of indoctrination of Americanness.\u00a0<strong>Yet the idea that airplanes could be weaponized in September, 2001, as spectacular divine tools to bring down skyscrapers and rewrite the narratives of American history and experience still came as a shock.<\/strong>\u00a0Taking up Heather Nathan\u2019s invitation to compose \u201cfugue histories,\u201d this talk seeks to brings together several Deleuzean \u201clines of flight\u201d into a meditation on the stakes of performing aviation, war, and space travel.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Scott Magelssen&#8217;s talk The Face of God: A Historiographic Fugue on Performance and Flight, is excerpted from his book-length study about the cultural and political significance of aviation and space flight in the United States.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/event\/the-face-of-god-a-historiographic-fugue-on-performance-and-flight\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Face of God: A Historiographic Fugue on Performance and Flight<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[19],"class_list":["post-1556","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-talk","cat_talk"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1557,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1556\/revisions\/1557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}