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• 08 déc 2016

  09 déc 2016

  Rabat

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  Politics of the body

  Le corps interroge de plus en plus les sciences sociales et humaines. Il s’impose comme sujet-objet de recherche non seulement en tant que produit et représentation culturels, mais aussi comme matérialité propre, elle-même productrice des formes de vie. La politique des corps désigne justement cette subjectivité corporelle active et signifiante. Il s’agit donc d’interroger celles-ci non pas comme objets passifs soumis à l’investigation de l’intelligence (ou l’esprit) d’un sujet transcendant, mais comme sujet qui exprime un réseau de relation et d’interactions où s’estompent les oppositions longuement consacrées entre le matériel et l’immatériel, le corps et l’esprit, l’objet et le sujet, la nature et la culture, le biologique et le psychologique, l’immanence et la transcendance, le visible et l’invisible.

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• 01 sep 2016

  Call for papers - Representation

  Luxury: Theory and practice

  Revue de l'Institut français de la mode n°1

  The inaugural issue will deal with a definition: how can luxury be defined? In other words, approaching luxury from the angle of how it is considered, demarcated and the more or less successful attempts to outline its perimeter in terms of concepts, methods, representations, fields of application and scientific disciplines. In addition to examining the multitude of definitions of luxury, as well as what these definitions presuppose, this issue of the IFM Review “Luxury: Theory and Practice” will open up the space for thought to different academic disciplines (sociology, philosophy, anthropology, economics, management history and management science) as well as to the free examination of the wide range of subjects (food, fashion, clothes, cars, architecture, art, etc.) that come under the umbrella of the luxury object or service.

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• 15 jui 2016

  Liège

  Call for papers - Thought

  Planned Obsolescence: Texts, Theory, Technology

  This conference does not intend to focus on the economic, social or environmental aspects of planned obsolescence; these are widely discussed in the literature of these fields, which is already extensive and continually growing. Instead, we would like to explore its implications regarding artistic, literary and theoretical productions and continue the discussion started by Kathleen Fitzpatrick in her work on planned obsolescence in academic publishing. Our goal is to address planned obsolescence as an analytical tool to study artistic and literary works, the genres to which they belong and the theoretical discourses related to them. We would like to address the many facets of planned obsolescence: representational, formal, theoretical, mediational, technological, etc.

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