[Discussion] CFP: Philament: The Politics and Aesthetics of Refusal (grad) (2/10/05; 4/15/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From	Philament <philament@arts.usyd.edu.au>
Date	December 21, 2004
CFP	Philament: Cultural Studies and Literary arts
Deadline  February 10, 2005


Philament Conference: =91The Politics and Aesthetics of Refusal=92
Darlington Centre, The University of Sydney
April 15, 2005


Philament, the online journal of cultural studies and literary arts
affiliated with the University of Sydney
(http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/publications/philament), invites
postgraduate scholars to contribute single-page proposals for an
upcoming conference on =91The Politics and Aesthetics of Refusal.=92

Art, writes Herbert Marcuse, has =91magic power only as the power of
negation. It can speak its own language only as long as the images are
alive which refuse and refute the established order.=92 Marcuse=92s call =
for
cultural production to refuse the limitations of hegemonic culture has
particular resonance in a contemporary political and cultural landscape
where patterns of production, distribution and consumption are
increasingly regulated and homogenized. To refuse is to be against
consensus, to be contrarian, to be non-conformist. Refusal presents
itself as a strategy for resisting the totalising forces of normative
thought and practice. It contains the potential for a form of immanent
critique which operates within the parameters of dominant order whilst
simultaneously rejecting its uniformity.

We are looking for proposals that consider social and political acts, as
well as acts of literature and art which refuse hegemonic paradigms of
theory and praxis.

Papers may address, but are not limited to:

*unilateralism and/or isolationism
*culture jamming
*counter-culture
*sub-cultures
*nomadology
*autonomous activism
*avant-garde aesthetics
*extremism
*alterity
*deviance
*subversion


Please note:

Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes. Please send proposals as
email attachment in a PC-readable format (preferably Microsoft Word) to
philament@arts.usyd.edu.au no later than February 10, 2005.

For further information visit
http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/publications/philament.



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