CFP: Thinking Through Deleuze: Nomadic Subjects, Global Citizenship and Posthumanism

“Thinking Through Deleuze: Nomadic Subjects, Global Citizenship and
Posthumanism” is a transdisciplinary conference that seeks to explore
the multitude of ethical and social problems posed by capitalism and
its global political order. This global order has marked a shift to
what some have called a network society (Castells), a society of
control (Deleuze and Foucault), and a new order of Empire (Hardt and
Negri). Globalization has radically changed how we understand social
life, including how we understand and represent subjectivity,
citizenship, and community.

Because Gilles Deleuze’s work provides unique conceptual tools for
theorizing the various assemblages — epistemological, ontological, and
material — that constitute our lived realities, the organizers seek
papers that continue the project of taking up Deleuze’s many “tools”
while examining the promises and perils of the global order in the
21st century. If, as scholars such as Braidotti, Casarino, Hardt, and
Negri argue, globalization fosters the potential for re-imagining
citizenship and how we understand the “human” subject, it also
continues to sustain exploitative practices and ideologies.
Therefore, in order to address the complexity of our historical
condition the conference will provide a space for scholars to
consider the various ways in which subjects are affected, or even
constrained, by macropolitical structures — political, economic, or
social — and the micropolitical resistances they enact against such
systems of containment. As scholars have pointed out, these
resistances are developed in socio-cultural practices across a wide
variety of fields including Performance Studies, Literature,
Philosophy, Political Science, Geography, Film and Communication Studies.

We invite proposals for papers on any topic — and from any discipline
— that explores the condition of our global world through
philosophies of immanence, nomadism, and posthumanism. Papers might
consider, for instance:

-  Philosophies of immanence and biopower
-  Nomadism and current practices of resistance
-  Globalization: line of flight or molar line par excellence?
-  Social networking: connecting or closing off
-  Non-essentialist vitalism
-  Agential realism and material-culture processes
-  Nomad citizenship and hyper-consumerism
-  Affirmative posthuman ethics, or posthumanism through Deleuze?
-  From humanism to anti-humanism to posthumanism
-  Towards a post-anthropocentrism: after the anthropocentric subject
-  Eco-philosophy and new materialism
-  Questions of identity/re-thinking subjectivity
-  Subjectivity beyond postmodern global capitalism
-  Activism and emancipatory politics
-  Constructing the “common(s)”
-  Nomadic feminism and gender in posthumanism
-  Masculinities from a posthumanist perspective
-  Temporality and immanent politics
-  The biopolitical production of humans, nonhumans, and posthumans

Paper proposals should consist of a title and an abstract of 500
words. Please include a brief biographical note (100 words), and any
required technical or audio-visual material.

The deadline for proposals has been extended to September 19, 2014.
The conference organizers will contact all participants by the end of September.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Rosi Braidotti
Distinguished University Professor and Founding Director of the
Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University

Cesare Casarino
Chair of the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative
Literature at the University of Minnesota

Steven Shaviro
DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University

Organizers:

Malisa Kurtz, Terrance McDonald, Christine Daigle, Stefan Dolgert,
David Fancy, Hans Skott-Myhre

Please send any inquiries to [email protected],
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