[Discussion] CFP: Subjectivity and Magic (grad) (2/12/05; (dis)junctions, 4/8/05-4/9/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Submission Deadline: February 12, 2005

CFP: (dis)junctions: theory reloaded (April 8-9, 2005)
Subjectivity and Magic

This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be held at
(dis)junctions: theory reloaded
at the University of California, Riverside's
12th Annual Humanities Graduate Conference on
April 8-9, 2005.

What does the iconography offered from a magic "trick" or a theatrical
depiction of magic as plot device animate-in the audience, the actors,
the stage and so forth? Who or what operate as common subjects and
common objects and what does these suggest? What happens to a subject
when she or he becomes spectacular? What about inanimate objects in
staged magic? What psychically transformative possibilities inhabit the
realm of sorcery, magic, or other forms of bedazzlement and spectacle?
What occurs in instances where a sign refuses to be spectacular, or
stimulative? What subjects and what objects refuse to mean in a mystical
sequence? Can a sequence refuse to mean? What do spectacular forms of
magic and mysticism do in the imaginary that cannot be performed in
reality? What kinds of "play" of meaning occur within subjects who
suffer from great adoration of magical powers? What is the message in
the medium(s)? Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged, but not
required.

Topical Areas:
Subjectivity
All periods
All mediums
Magic/Incantations/Sorcery/Witches
Spectacle
Simulation
Performativity
Citationality

Send your 250 word abstract to ablig001@student.ucr.edu by February 12,
2005. Abstracts should be no more than 250 words.  Copy and paste your
abstract into the body of the e-mail. No attachments please. Please note
any media equipment you need.

(dis)junctions
UCR's Twelfth Annual Humanities Graduate Conference
Department of English
1202 Humanities and Social Sciences Building
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521

For more information on (dis)junctions: theory reloaded, visit
http://english.ucr.edu/gsea/disjunctions/



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