[Discussion] CFP: Media Studies and Recent Developments in Critical Theory (8/15/05; SCMS, 3/2/06-3/5/06)

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From: richard cante <rcante@email.unc.edu>

Seeking abstracts for panel(s) to be proposed for the Society for Cinema and
Media Studies Conference (Vancouver, BC, March 2-5 2006) on the topic "Media
Studies and Recent Developments in Critical Theory."

Deadline for receipt of proposals: August 15th 2005.

Please send paper proposal and brief bio by email to Rich Cante, Assistant
Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, The Univeristy of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. "rcante@email.unc.edu."

All interesting proposals are welcome--whatever media, concepts, or  "methods"
they deal with.

Especially interested in the dilemmas facing "media studies" in the wake of:
-recent turns in ethics (post-*Specters of Marx* Derrida, Badiou,
Foucault&#65533;s last works, etc.);
-recent turns in aesthetics (Ranciere, Agamben, Foucault&#65533;s last works,
etc.);
-the rampancy of vitalism;
-the whole humanism/anti-humanism thing;
-a new and different Hegel;
-a new and different hermeneutics (Heidegger, Ricouer, etc.);
-alternative visions of what "historicism" and "history" are;
-underlying (anti-)religious ideas and ideals (implicit or explicit appeals to
figures such as Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Freud; the new light on Levinas;
Jambet, etc.)
-very late Lacan (and his interpreters);
-reconsiderations of the theoretical gutter balls of 80s/90s U.S.
"multiculturalism;"
-re-invigorated interests in pragmatism;
-re-conceptualizations of the gender/sexuality/body nexus after Judith Butler;
-the seeming last nails in the coffin of theoretical populism (the re-election
of Bush?);
-and so on.

Proposals on any matters that seem important to finger and explicate more
carefully right now--or that seem bound to erupt "into media studies" at some
point in the future--are welcome.

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