Hi everyone,
We're pleased to announce the programme for the Radical Negativity
Conference is now available and registration is open.
*Radical Negativity* *An interdisciplinary conference interrogating
productive possibilities for negative states of being*
Friday 13 June 2014
Goldsmiths, University of London
9.00am - 6.30pm followed by a reception
Richard Hoggart Building, Room 137a
The programme can be viewed at http://radicalnegativity.com/programme/.
To attend the conference please register
here<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/radical-negativity-an-interdisciplinary-conference-tickets-10857770885>
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Radical Negativity is supported by the Centre for Feminist Research,
Department of Media and Communications, and the Centre for Cultural Studies
at Goldsmiths.
More recent feminist and queer scholarship has begun to productively
address the dark aspects of human subjectivity perceived to have a
detrimental impact on the self-constituting practices of the positive self,
such as shame, trauma, unhappiness, loss, pain, and melancholia, and to
reconceptualise them not only as integral to the process of subject
formation, but critical and productive affective states in which to engage
political action.
This interdisciplinary conference addresses the ways in which feminist and
queer research may be informed by embracing philosophical oppositions, the
‘negative double’ of the positive value. The conference will interrogate
what can be learned from interventions focused on the interconnections
between the negative and human agency, and how negative states and
conditions of being may provide loci from which action and political
engagement can arise.
We are pleased to announce the conference keynote:
*Ugly Little Dreams: An Iconicity of Feminist Suffering and the Promise of
Radical Negativity*
To be delivered by Lisa Blackman, Professor of Media and Communications,
Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths.
The conference is free and open to all. For further details visit the
conference website or contact: [log in to unmask]
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