[Discussion] CFP: Taking Modernity From Behind (7/15/05; GEMCS, 12/1/05-12/4/05)

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From: William Stockton <wstockto@indiana.edu>

Taking Modernity from Behind

Panel Proposal for 2005 GEMCS: Crossing Borders

Panel Co-organizers:
Vin Nardizzi (vjn@duke.edu)
Will Stockton (wstockto@indiana.edu)

Abstract Deadline: July 15, 2005

In Negotiations, Giles Deleuze famously characterizes his history of 
philosophy
as "a sort of buggery," the practice of "taking an author from behind 
and giving
him a child that would be his own offspring, yet monstrous." Using this
description as an organizing impetus, we invite submissions for a 
proposed 2005
GEMCS (Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies) panel on approaching 
theories of
modernity from behind - i.e. from texts retroactively designated as "early
modern." What kinds of "offspring" does such an analysis generate? And 
to whom
would they be "monstrous"?

Papers may address a variety of modernisms, including Freudian and Lacanian
psychoanalysis, Deleuze and Guattari's schizoanalysis, Marxism, the 
Frankfurt
school, fascism, various avant-gardes, and other theories of anthropology,
politics, sociology, psychology, and science. Papers should stage a 
conversation
between modernity and early modernity in order to demonstrate not simply the
utility of using modern theories to analyze early modern texts, but to
demonstrate how a sodomitical reading practice de-familiarizes, 
hybridizes, and
perhaps eroticizes both modernisms and early modernisms. Of course, we also
welcome papers that query the very terms of Deleuze's description of 
sodomitical
analysis and its implications for historiography.

Please email abstracts (250 words) to either Will Stockton or Vin 
Nardizzi by
July 15, 2005. For more information on GEMCS, please visit the conference
website: http://www.english.fsu.edu/gemcs/ .

Vin Nardizzi
Duke University
vjn@duke.edu

Will Stockton
Indiana University, Bloomington
wstockto@indiana.edu


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