Eleventh Biennial Radical Philosophy Association Conference

Spaces of Control: Confronting Austerity and Repression

Stony Brook University, NY

November 6th-9th, 2014

Capitalism’s most recent crisis and the austerity measures imposed in its wake have resulted in unprecedented levels of inequity, dispossession, and suffering.  Political dissent and democratic opposition are quelled by the employment of new and increasingly punitive measures of control.  The spaces of such control are the subject matter of our conference.  We envision such spaces as covert and overt, as conducting operations of confinement and detention, expulsion and displacement, as virtual and physical, carried out through police and military, through individuals and the state, publicly and privately.  The exploration of such spaces may allow us to engage, resist, disrupt, and modify the practices that create them.  We examine such spaces in order to see through them and move beyond them.