[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Sedition (5/1/06; online journal issue)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

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

Contretemps: An Online Journal of Philosophy

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

Call for Papers for Issue 7 on 'Sedition'.

Sedition: "Conduct or language inciting to rebellion against the constituted
authority in a state"

Sedition poses an immanent crisis for contemporary liberal states. These 
states
are founded on principles of individual liberty and freedom of 
expression. In
denying individuals the right to sedition, liberal states place limits 
on their
ownmost, constitutive principles. Ultimately, the problem posed by 
sedition is
that of distinguishing legal from illegal violence. If states come into 
being
through violence (either as a matter of historical fact or understood
"transcendentally," i.e., in the absence of any prior legitimation), then
critical reflection on sedition questions the basis of the modern
legal-juridical order. Is the critique of sedition an inherently 
seditious act?
To what extent do sedition laws establish an implicit limit for critical
reflection and intellectual debate? Is sedition a dialectical ruse of 
the state,
a doubling that defines the object to which the state is opposed? Must 
we today
learn to think sedition otherwise than sovereignty and the state? If 
sedition
calls into question the structure of right, is it appropriately 
conceived as a
right? In liberal states such as Britain and Australia, the ill-defined 
concept
of sedition threatens to undermine or even criminalize activities that might
otherwise promote positive social transformation. How may we rethink the 
problem
of sedition to liberate critical, progressive, and socially creative 
energies in
the name of positive social transformation and renewal?

Contretemps invites philosophically informed and focused submissions on the
contemporary legal and political problem of sedition.

Word length: 6000 words.

Deadline for submissions: 1st May, 2006.

Please direct all enquiries and submissions to

contretemps@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 "history of
philosophy," 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.




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