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• 18 sep 2018

  Paris

  Call for papers - Thought

  The death of ethics? Democracy at stake

  Revue française d’éthique appliquée no.7

  Ce numéro 7 de la Revue française d’éthique appliquée prendra l’éthique comme objet de réflexion. Il ne s’agira cependant pas, en première intention, d’inviter les contributeurs à proposer une définition philosophique de l’éthique, mais plutôt à la considérer comme un champ de pratiques sociales protéiformes se désignant elles-mêmes comme relevant de l’ éthique. Que devons-nous et que voulons-nous faire de cette profusion des pratiques de l’éthique ? Quels rôles social et politique cette sphère de l’éthique est-elle en mesure de porter dans l'espace démocratique ?

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• 15 sep 2018

  Call for papers - Africa

  Philosophy and dance in Africa and among its diasporas today

  Corpus Africana festival

  From the 27^th of October until the 10^th of November 2018 the university consortium Erasmus Mundus Europhilosophie is organising, under the title “Corpus Africana; Current philosophies and Dances in Africa and its Diasporas”, an important international meeting, aiming to bring to the heart of arts and humanities university research in Europe the knowledge and the study of “Africana Philosophy”, of choreographic knowledge that is of African or contemporary African lineage in nature. The meeting will take place at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès as part of the research seminar “Thinking Decolonisation”, in collaboration with the James Carlès Centre of Choreography’s Festival of Dance and the Black Continents.

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• 30 jui 2018

  Budapest

  Miscellaneous information - Ethnology, anthropology

  The Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence

  Call for Guest-Editors : Volume III, Issue I. 2019

  The Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence is looking for a Guest-Editor for its May 2019 issue. Preferred topics are : (1) violence and technology; (2) philosophical perspectives on modern wars; (3) reflections on conflict and violence pertaining to the work of a modern western philosopher. 

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• 20 avr 2018

  Aberystwyth

  Call for papers - Thought

  Dialectics of Dread and Refuge

  Theatre, Performance and Philosophy Working Group (TaPRA Conference)

  In A Grammar of the Multitude, Paolo Virno discriminates between the Kantian view of the dialectic of dread and refuge, which is based on a distinction between particular danger and absolute danger (also articulated by Heidegger through the distinction between fear and anguish) and the collapse of this distinction in the post-Fordist world, in which "the dividing line between fear and anguish, between relative dread and absolute dread, is precisely what has failed." (Virno 2004, 32) If post-Fordist institutions rely on a culture of pervasive dread – manifest as fear and anxiety – how do we resist this nearly intangible culture today? Arguably, we are moving beyond the sort of entrenched paralysis Virno speaks of, towards a new sort of political breakthrough, a manner of imagining life not determined by institutional cultures of fear and anxiety. Yet much thinking needs still to be done around the ways in which we engage in concerted resistance: do we fight within institutional walls – and if so, how do we resist systems of perpetual visibilisation – the gaze of securitization that renders us so exposed? What does this fight look like? Do we exit – and if so, where to? Is there a new underground? 

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• 19 jan 2018

  20 jan 2018

  Paris

  Study days - Political studies

  Forms of civil and political representation

  Investigatings through philosophical anthropology and critical theory

  Ce projet de recherche consiste à reprendre à nouveaux frais, sur la base du dialogue entre théorie critique et anthropologie philosophique, la question de la représentation politique et de son articulation avec les formes de civilité (Umgangsformen) – au sens de l’existence dans la vie civile d’attitudes, de comportements et de procédures créant ce qu’on appelle en allemand « Verbindlichkeit » et que Habermas considère comme les conditions d’une communication non détériorée. On ne se limitera ce faisant pas au paradigme de la reconnaissance (Hegel revu par Honneth), ni à l’agir communicationnel de Habermas, mais on réintégrera les dimensions « irrationnelles » ou « phénoménologiques » (au sens de l’anthropologie philosophique) qui étaient présentes dans la première théorie critique et qui sont passées à l’arrière-plan en raison notamment de la perte d’influence du paradigme psychologique et psychanalytique.

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• 15 jan 2018

  Berlin

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Marx, Semiotics and Political Praxis

  This special issue of Open Cultural Studies will return to the work of Karl Marx to reflect on and engage with his coherent articulation of words and their use, of words and actions, and of the intellectual and the political. The coherence of his discourse and praxis offers tools to think through, if not seek to transform, the alienated semiotic landscape of our times as described by the Frankfurt school philosopheers, Jean Baudrillard, Frederic Jameson, Sloterdijk and Slavoj Žižek. To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Marx's birth, in this special issue we want to honour his 11th Thesis on Feuerbach: "philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it."

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