CFP: Social and Political Thought Graduate Conference
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Strategies of Critique XXI
Theme: Broke/n
Begins: Fri, 13 Apr 2007
Ends: Sat, 14 Apr 2007
Location: YORK UNIVERSITY
4700 Keele Street
TORONTO, ONTARIO
CANADA
Registration fee: 0
Last date for paper submission: Thu, 25 Jan 2007
Organizer: SPT GSA
Graduate Student Conference
Department of Social and Political Thought
Has our reserve of practices and theories gone broke while the world is breaking up all around us? How do theories that invoke brokenness—”the time is out of joint” (Hamlet/Derrida), the multitude (Negri and Hardt), schizo analysis (Deleuze and Gauttari), to mention only a few—contribute to, or impede, an understanding of our contemporary world? Or, more importantly, how successfully do these theories lead to praxes that can engage our contemporary world? Has a new disillusionment called postmodern theory into question? Has postmodern melancholy (Lyotard) turned into an ideology of cynicism (Sloterdijk/Zizek)?
In the face of class conflict, globalization, poverty, disasters, imperialism and war what strategies can address these postmodern times without leading to disillusionment and cynicism? What are the theoretical and historical phenomena underpinning the transition out of the postmodern?
Strategies of Critique is an annual interdisciplinary graduate conference hosted by the Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought at York University, Toronto, Canada.
We welcome a broad range of submissions including, but not limited to, the following:
- Ideology and (anti-)globalization
- The limits of aestheticization
- The limits of the postmodern
- Class, gender, and race conflict
- Empire - dissolution, decline, rise and return
- A break with nature
- Breaking with the past
- Breaking up/revolution
- Broken theories or theories of brokenness
- Broken governments
- Broken traditions
- Broken identities
- Broken lines of communication
- Broken narratives
- Broken minds and bodies
- Broke - empty, lacking, bankrupt
- The Angel of History
Submission Guidelines
Abstracts for papers (max 250 words) and all queries should be sent to spt_conf@yorku.ca. The deadline for submissions is January 25th, 2007.