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Begin forwarded message: > From: Todd Reynolds <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Sun Jan 5, 2003 7:06:17 am Europe/London > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: CFP: Globalization and Revolutionary Possibilities (1/30/03; > 3/20/03-3/22/03) > > The nascent Center for the Humanities and Public Sphere, the Department > of English, and the Marxist Reading Group presents: > > > > Born of Desertion: Singularity, Collectivity, Revolution > > March 20-22 at the University of Florida > > Keynote Speakers: Michael Hardt and Kristin Ross > > Where is the Left now? How do we invest in community, materialize > collective formations, and enact a justice in their name? How do we do > this at a moment when the world market and the right-wing body politic, > prodigiously engineering and rewriting the global imaginary, have > appeared > as the frightening answer to certain strains of a communal impulse so > crucial to the Left? > > Our conference seeks papers that engage with those leftist politics > occluded from public discourse. How might singularities help us rethink > and formulate a collective possibility? And, along these same lines, > what > might we mean, finally, when we invoke the word "revolution"? This > will > not be limited to but certainly and inevitably caught up in > considerations > of the spatial, the temporal, production, everyday exploitation, and > the > state. Is it within the scope of these concerns, especially in the > context > of the imperial world order, that a truly radical Left can emerge? > > Michael Hardt is widely acknowledged as a major voice—both nationally > and > internationally—in the ongoing debates around globalization. The > publication of Empire, which he coauthored with Antonio Negri, has > contributed to this debate by suggesting new conceptions between > capital, > space, and subjectivity. In addition to Empire, Hardt’s publications > engage with issues of contemporary politics and philosophy. He is > author > of Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy (1993) and coauthor > with Antonio Negri of Labor of Dionysus: A Critique of the State-form > (1994). He is coeditor with Paolo Virno of Radical Thought in Italy > (1996) > and coeditor with Kathi Weeks of The Jameson Reader (2000).Hardt is an > Associate Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke > University. > > Kristin Ross engages with French social theory and cultural studies and > examines how insurgent moments in history—the Paris Commune, May > ‘68—are > written and rewritten in the cultural imaginary. Key to her work is the > new spatial formations and social practices that emerge from > revolutionary > actions. In Emergence of Social Space (1988), Ross argues that space is > political, and that through space, the Commune challenges the > capitalist > notion of work, leisure, and identity. Her most recent book, May ‘68 > and > its Afterlives (2002), explores how normalizing discourses erase the > revolutionary aspects of this event, and explain them away as an > apolitical "youth movement." In addition to these books, Ross has > written > Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French > Culture (1995), and she is co-editor (with Alice Kaplan) of a special > issue of Yale French Studies on on "everyday life" (1987). Ross is a > professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. > > Prospective papers may address (but are not limited to) the following: > * Anti-humanism/post-humanism in Empire. > * Reification of history. > * Narrative mappings of the political. > * The racisms without race. > * Re-thinking subjectivities through singularity. > * Society of control and new forms of policing/discipline. > * The aesthetics of security. > * Re-writing the frontiers of the nation-state. > * Antimedia and counter-empire. > * Prosthetics, Clones, Cyborgs: The body and technological ontologies. > * Strategies of containing revolutionary practices. > * Gender and the place of work. > * Global capital and imagining the apocalypse. > * Pedagogies and reorganizing relations to space. > * Literature and collectivity. > * Insurgent spatial practices: sites for alternative production. > * Professionalization and the corporate university. > * Media and formulations of collectivity. > * Constructions of a revolutionary identity. > * Politics of zoning. > * US policy, war, and terrorism. > > Non-traditional or performative panels will also be considered. > > One page abstracts, questions, and comments should be submitted to the > Marxist Reading Group at [log in to unmask] > > For info on previous conferences visit www.english.ufl.edu/mrg. > > Abstracts due: January 30. > > > > > =============================================== > From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List > [log in to unmask] > Full Information at > http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/ > or write Erika Lin: [log in to unmask] > =============================================== > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr Felicity Callard Lecturer in Human Geography Royal Holloway, University of London Egham Surrey TW20 0EX United Kingdom t: (011 44) (0)1784 443643 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~