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Apologies for Cross Postings Call for Papers AAG CHICAGO Encounters with Spinoza Every century, it seems, has had its Spinoza: the materialist and atheist Spinoza of the 18th century, the mystic and pantheist Spinoza of the 19th century and the revolutionary Spinoza of the late twentieth century. Indeed, in the past thirty years Spinoza has been the subject of many encounters, including Deleuze's expressionism, Negri's post-Marxist materialism, and Gaten's and Lloyd's reconceptualization of freedom, responsibility and difference to name but a few. How is Spinoza being read currently by geographers? What might his thinking offer to those working on ethics and politics, the art of organization, bodies and space-time, non-Cartesian modes of thought, or other areas of interest in our discipline? What are the strengths and limits of Spinoza's thought for our times? It would seem for starters that Spinoza's radicalized ontology and philosophy of immanence hold great promise as they make more apparent the dynamism, productivity and spatiality of social and political relations inherent in any given moment. But there are many Spinozas... This call for papers is an invitation for scholars to discuss and debate their encounters with Spinoza in their own work and the ways they think Spinoza might be relevant to geographic thought. Please contact the organizers with questions and expressions of interest (name, title and a sentence or two on your paper) by August 15th. Paper abstracts will be due mid September. Organizers: Sue Ruddick [log in to unmask] and Bruce Braun [log in to unmask]