[Bilimsel Haber] UPDATE: Sedition: Contretemps: An Online Journal of Philosophy (8/1/06; online journal issue)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: Contretemps <contretemps at mail.usyd.edu.au>

Contretemps: An Online Journal of Philosophy

http://www.usyd.edu.au/contretemps

Revised call for Papers for Issue 7 on 'Sedition'.

SEDITION: 'Conduct or language inciting to rebellion against the
constituted authority in a state.

Sedition poses immanent problems for liberal states. These states are 
founded on
principles of freedom of expression and individual liberty; yet they 
draw the
line at sedition. In denying individuals the right to sedition, liberal 
states
curtail their constitutive principles. Ultimately, the problem posed by 
sedition
is the problem of distinguishing legal from illegal violence. If states come
into being through violence (either as a matter of historical fact or 
understood
&#65533;transcendentally¹, i.e., in the absence of any prior 
legitimation), then
a critical reflection on sedition inevitably questions the basis of the 
modern
legal-juridical order.

Is the critique of sedition a seditious act? Or is sedition a 
dialectical ruse
of the state, a doubling that defines the object to which the state is 
opposed?
Is it possible, on the other hand, that questioning the state is the wrong
strategy; that we must learn to think sedition otherwise than 
sovereignty and
the state? What ethical status may be granted to 'communities of 
sedition'? How
have recent depictions of sedition in art, literature, music and film 
challenged
us to rethink sedition in the name of positive social transformation and
renewal?

In the United States, Britain, Australia and elsewhere, a juridical 
concept of
sedition threatens to undermine or even criminalize activities that might
otherwise promote positive social transformation and renewal. How might we
recast the problem of sedition so as to alleviate its sovereign 
violence? How
might we rethink the problem of sedition so as to liberate the critical and
progressive (i.e., creative) energies of society?

Word length: 6000 words.

Deadline for submissions: 1st August 2006

Please direct all enquiries and submissions to
contretemps at mail.usyd.edu.au

For more information (including submission guidelines), visit Contretemps at
http://www.usyd.edu.au/contretemps

The aim of Contretemps is to enact a philosophical engagement with 
social and
political events. We seek to publish original and insightful work that 
attests
to the contemporary moment and that expands the horizons of critical 
thought.
Departing from the models of exposition and the recycling of the 
&#65533;history
of philosophy¹, Contretemps encourages contributors to read events with,
alongside and perhaps against the discipline of philosophy. The 
objective is to
create new ways of responding to events, thus to participate in and reinvent
philosophical sociality.

Contretemps is an independent journal of philosophy, supported by the 
Department
of Philosophy, University of Sydney, Australia.

Contretemps editorial board.





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