Format
The format of the conferences were derived in part from the Situationist International and French Surrealism and differed each year. Presentations at the second conference in 1998 were restricted to 3, 5, 10, or 20 minute durations. By radically shortening presentations down to nothing more than a couple of gestures entwined around a sentence or two in some cases, the Hybridists attempted to remove the long wait for meaning typical of the academic setting and reconnect conferences to more succinct and effectual public spectacles such as the boxing match or directing traffic. In part they saw the trope of Parataxis infecting the contemporary media landscape, and thought it was under represented in the Academy.
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