[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Strategies of Critique XXI: Broke/n (grad) (1/25/07; 4/13/07-4/14/07)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Call for Papers
STRATEGIES OF CRITIQUE XXI: BROKE/N
Graduate Student Conference
April 13th and 14th, 2007
Department of Social and Political Thought
York University, Toronto
CFP deadline: January 25th, 2007

Has our reserve of practices and theories gone broke while the world is
breaking up all around us? How do theories that invoke brokenness—"the
time is out of joint" (Hamlet/Derrida), the multitude (Negri and Hardt),
schizo analysis (Deleuze and Gauttari), to mention only a few—contribute
to, or impede, an understanding of our contemporary world? Or, more
importantly, how successfully do these theories lead to praxes that can
engage our contemporary world? Has a new disillusionment called
postmodern theory into question? Has postmodern melancholy (Lyotard)
turned into an ideology of cynicism (Sloterdijk/Zizek)?

In the face of class conflict, globalization, disasters, imperialism and
war what strategies can address these conditions of our postmodern times
without leading to disillusionment and cynicism? What are the
theoretical and historical phenomena underpinning the transition out of
the postmodern?

Strategies of Critique is an annual interdisciplinary graduate
conference hosted by the Graduate Programme in Social & Political
Thought at York University, Toronto, Canada.

We welcome a broad range of submissions including, but not limited to,
the following:


- Ideology and (anti-)globalization
- The limits of aestheticization
- The limits of the postmodern
- Class, gender, and race conflict
- Empire - dissolution, decline, rise and return
- A break with nature
- Breaking with the past
- Breaking up/revolution
- Broken theories or theories of brokenness
- Broken governments
- Broken traditions
- Broken identities
- Broken lines of communication
- Broken narratives
- Broken minds and bodies
- Broke - empty, lacking, bankrupt
- The Angel of History

Submission Guidelines:

Abstracts for papers (max 250 words) and all queries should be sent to
spt_conf at yorku.ca. The deadline for submissions is January 25th,
2007.



http://www.yorku.ca/spt/

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