[Discussion] CONF./CFP- Theorizations of Culture & the Political, July 2005, U. of Minnesota

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

CONF./CFP- Theorizations of Culture & the Political, July 2005, U. of
Minnesota

Out of Time: Theorizations of Culture and the Political

Featuring Keynote Speakers Michael Hardt and Mary Ann Doane

The Collective for Critical Practices and the Department of Cultural
Studies and Comparative Literature (CSCL), with the support of the
Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature Film Society, are
coordinating a conference entitled "Out of Time: Theorizations of
Culture and the Political," to be held at the University of Minnesota,
Twin Cities from October 20-22, 2005.

Our conference focuses on the problematic of time in a moment when our
very understandings of time and temporality are being challenged. How
are these changing notions of time practiced in the workplace, in the
global economy and in communications? In turn, how are these practices
represented in film, art, literature, critical thought, and other texts?
What can it mean to be "out of time?" And how is such a concept effected
by the urgency and potential of our present?

Abstracts due: July 31, 2005

This conference is concerned with what it might mean to be "out of time"
and its implications and applications for our present moment. Our
Collective approaches "out of time" as a sense of urgency, a potential
that emerges out of "presentness," and a transformation of earlier
assumptions of temporality. Today, urgency and the potential of the
present have been elevated by the presumed waning of modernist notions
of history and complex shifts in the relations of production. We are out
of time.

This problematic is being taken up in a myriad of provocative ways
within both academic and non-academic spheres of production from
philosophy to literature to film to political activism. In The Emergence
of Cinematic Time, Mary Ann Doane explores the intersections between
temporality, modernity, the archive and cinema. Michael Hardt's work
conceptualizes the reorganization of production and temporality in the
era of globalization.

The Collective for Critical Practices in conjunction with the Cultural
Studies and Comparative Literature Film Society at the University of
Minnesota invite submissions for our Fall 2005 conference dedicated to
the theme "out of time." Our first priority is to consider a
multiplicity of viewpoints that explore, challenge, contest and engage
in current theoretical debates on this issue. Further, we encourage
collaborative works and cultural productions (e.g. photo-essays, web
art, live art, and film/video pieces) in addition to traditional essay
presentations. Our commitment is to open our collective to intellectual
and creative producers that are critically and rigorously involved in
the urgent task of thinking "out of time," regardless of academic or
artistic distinction.

Potential topics might include (but are not limited to) the following:

Transformations of wage time
Time and national memorialization
The cinematic event
Science fictions of empire
Temporalities of technology
Ontology and history
Wasting and spending time
Narrativizations of time
Nostalgia and utopia
Emergence and becoming
Bodies in time
Potential, hope, and the future
Rest and inertia
Trauma, memory, repetition
Space(s) without time
Time in exile
Temporality and subjectivity
Public/private time

Abstracts (500 words), a brief c.v., as well as any questions and
comments should be submitted to: critprac@tc.umn.edu

Mailing Address:

Conference Organizing Committee
c/o Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature
350 Folwell Hall
9 Pleasant Street S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
USA

For more information visit: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~critprac/cfp.html


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