Anyone interested in geographies of affect and emotion
should check out the emotive visual spatialization of
music in this animated interval graphic version of
Chopin’s Nocturne, opus 27 #2:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1QM6YZC45g&annotation_id=annotation_323647&feature=iv)
Just fantastic! This guy Malinowski uses the distance
between points spread vertically to depict the notes
played by right and left hand and then connects them to
create a moving two-dimensional polygonal shape by
employing different coloured lines, each colour chosen to
represent the interval type…
--
Dr Jon Cloke
Lecturer
Geography Department
Loughborough University
Loughborough LE11 3TU
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Tel: 00 44 07984 813681
On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:00:38 -0500
Deb Ranjan Sinha <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> CAPPE
> Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics
> University of Brighton, UK
>
> 5th International Interdisciplinary Conference
> Politics of Fear; Fear of Politics
> Wednesday 15 ¬ Friday 17 September 2010
>
> Second Call for Papers
>
> We live in a world that is dominated by fear. We are
>increasingly afraid to
> walk in our city streets, populated as they are by feral
>youths,
> drug-dealers and surveillance cameras. The threat of
>global warming and
> climate change is ever-present, and accompanied by the
>even greater fear
> that we¹ll be too late to do anything about it. Then of
>course there¹s
> terror: frightened of a Taliban invasion, apparently, we
>are still fighting
> in Afghanistan after eight years and pursuing a
>worldwide ³war on terror².
> And if that¹s not enough, we are becoming ever more
>afraid of alcohol, of
> food, of being too fat, of being too thin; and afraid
>even of sex. In this
> climate of fear, it is not surprising that we should
>also have become
> terrified of politics, in case we suddenly have to think
>about an idea, let
> alone act on it. Our politicians appear as afraid of
>politics as we are:
> which is one reason they¹re privatizing everything in
>sight, so as to evade
> responsibility for it. As for ideas, they really are
>terrifying, and our
> young people have to be protected from them at all
>costs. In short, the
> ³anti-ideological² determination to take the politics
>out of politics is
> closely related to the social, cultural and intellectual
>dominance of fear
> as the leitmotif of our everyday lives.
>
> This avowedly interdisciplinary conference seeks to do
>two things: to
> describe and analyse what might be termed the
>contemporary spheres and roles
> of fear as it is played out both in social, cultural and
>intellectual life
> and in day to day life; and to offer ways of escaping
>those fears. Likely
> themes might be the following, although the conference
>is by no means
> limited to these:
> € The history of fear as an organising principle of
>social life.
> € The ideological role of fear.
> € The fear of ideology.
> € Fear of the other; fear of ourselves.
> € Surveillance, anti-social behaviour orders and the
>³underclass².
> € ³Food fascism² and the fear of pleasure.
> € Medicine and the inculcation of fear.
> € Anti-education in schools and universities.
> € The fear of ideas, in both the everyday and the
>academic worlds.
> € Fear of the body.
> € Fear of the mind.
> € Fear in the media; in film; in literature; in art.
> € The sophistical undermining of critical thought and
>theory.
> € Fear of radicalism in politics.
> € Fear of catastrophe.
> € Capitalism and catastrophe.
> € Fear of financial collapse.
> € The representation of fear and the fear of
>representation.
> € The architecture of fear.
>
> We anticipate that these and related issues will be of
>interest to people
> working in, among others, philosophy, ethics, political
>theory, politics,
> sociology, social policy, literature, cultural studies,
>history, art,
> architecture,
> photography, geography, psychology, planning, refugee
>studies, urban studies
> and area studies.
>
> Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be emailed to
>Nicola Clewer by 22
>February: [log in to unmask]
> Decisions will be communicated by 3 March.
>
> The conference fee is £210. This includes refreshments,
>lunch on Wednesday,
> Thursday and Friday and a buffet dinner on Thursday in a
>local venue.
> There are a limited number of places available for
>graduate students and for
> people who have no institutional affiliation at the
>reduced price of £105.
> Please indicate if you wish to be considered for one of
>these when
> sending your abstract; or contact Nicola Clewer:
>[log in to unmask] as soon
> as possible.
>
> Please note: the conference fee does not include
>accommodation.
> Reasonably priced en-suite accommodation in student
>halls of residence will
> be available on a first come, first served basis for a
>minimum of three
> nights. (Further information regarding university
>accommodation will be
> provided at the registration stage.) Otherwise delegates
>are welcome to make
> their own arrangements.
>
> Please note: unfortunately we are unable to offer travel
>grants.
>
>For updates and further information about the centre
>please visit the CAPPE
> website:
> www.brighton.ac.uk/CAPPE
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