Obsolescence programmée : textes, théorie, technologie Planned Obsolescence: Texts, Theory, Technology

Ce colloque se propose d'étudier ce concept sous l’angle encore peu exploré de ses implications dans les domaines artistique, littéraire et théorique. Notre objectif est d’explorer les possibilités de ce nouvel outil analytique dans l’étude d’œuvres littéraires et artistiques, les genres auxquels elles appartiennent et les discours théoriques dont elles dérivent ou ceux qu’elles ont engendrés. Nous souhaitons aborder les nombreuses facettes (représentationnelle, formelle, théorique, médiatico-technologique, etc.) de la problématique.This conference does not intend to focus on the economic, social or environmental aspects of planned obsolescence; these are widely discussed in the literature of these fields, which is already extensive and continually growing. Instead, we would like to explore its implications regarding artistic, literary and theoretical productions and continue the discussion started by Kathleen Fitzpatrick in her work on planned obsolescence in academic publishing. Our goal is to address planned obsolescence as an analytical tool to study artistic and literary works, the genres to which they belong and the theoretical discourses related to them. We would like to address the many facets of planned obsolescence: representational, formal, theoretical, mediational, technological, etc