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Mathis, You miss the point - the English language lacks the tortuous semiotic flexibility necessary to render your pronunciations completely obscure and obfuscatory in the way that French does; think Proust and his sentences running on for pages. How would you do that in English and still imbue what you said with the same kind of etymological mysticism - and then add in bits of cod maths for a truly post-modern, post-structural 'clarification'? Me, I'm going to stick to what I do best, which is rooting around in the discursive acorns of the lumpengeografariat. Grunt. Jon Cloke, Newcastle University From: Mathis Stock <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: Mathis Stock <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: RGS 2007 CFP: Alan Badiou and Human Geography Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 16:04:13 +0100 So, a new "French theorist" has been spotted: that's marvelous! This must be the exotic, thus exciting part of (British/Anglo) "Human geography" (by the way, I thought - after all those theoretical revolutions and turns - the Vidalian expression "Human Geography" had no longer any sense...). But, can you imagine: there are "French theorists" even within geography!! It would be a real challenge to engage with the theoretical propositions, different in style and problematisation, from inside the field. But, maybe it's easier to do some import/export with those more "exotic" French thinkers... All the best. mathis ps: there are "German", "Italian", "British" and so on theorists, too. Le 31 janv. 07, à 15:41, Dr Richard Smith a écrit : >Call for papers: > >RGS/IBG Annual Conference, 28-31 August 2007 > >Session title: Alain Badiou and Human Geography > >Convenor: Marcus A. Doel, Swansea University, UK <[log in to unmask]> > >Sponsored by: Social & Cultural Geography Research Group > >Session abstract: Our collective engagement with French theorists has >transformed Human Geography, and our research would be impoverished >without the benefit of encountering the ideas of Louis Althusser, Jean >Baudrillard, Michel Callon, Hélène Cixous, Manuel Castells, Michel de >Certeau, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Luce Irigaray, >Julia Kristeva, Jacques Lacan, Bruno Latour, and Henri Lefebvre, amongst >others. This session will consider the potential for Human Geography of >Alain Badiou, who is reputedly one of the most insightful, original, and >radical thinkers in France today; not least because of his singular re- >articulation of philosophy and mathematics, inflected by politics and >psychoanalysis, which poses a profound challenge to the forms of >poststructualism, actor-network theory, and non-representational theory >that many human geographers have recently made their own. As so many >theoretical trajectories within the discipline converge on the notion of >multiplicity—frequently under the aegis of association, difference, flow, >heterogeneity, and network—, one of the most significant advances that >Badiou might offer us is a rigorous and explosive account of the multiple, >the subject, and the event. The session will introduce Badiou’s thought >and assess its potential for advancing research agendas in human >geography. Offers of papers are welcomed from enthusiasts, critics, and >sceptics. > > >If you would like to offer a paper, please let me know by English love >day: 14 February 2007. The gist of a title and an abstract would be >helpful, but an early expression of interest will suffice. > >Marcus Doel > > >-- > >Professor Marcus A Doel >Director of Research and Professor of Human Geography >Centre for Urban Theory >School of the Environment and Society >Swansea University >Singleton Park >Swansea SA2 8PP >United Kingdom > >Tel 0 11 44 (0)1792 513090 > >Email: [log in to unmask]