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• 31 mar 2020

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Tilting

  Urgent issue of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

  This special issue, Tilting, seeks to take up themes that have animated the Blackwood’s program and mandate throughout the last several years: questions of connectivity, the challenges of public and private space, community and/in isolation; imperatives to re-structure modes and methodologies of care, including revaluing care work, confronting collective care responsibilities within colonial and capitalist structures, and engaging with the infrastructures, aesthetics, contestations, and radical possibilities of mutual aid; responses to the precarization of art, labour, and life; interest in what modes of knowledge production, circulation, and re-distribution are vital to us now, and how these networks might take new form. These urgencies continue to drive Blackwood programming (and this forthcoming publication), supporting and activating artists, curators, and writers who incite us to be responsive, critical, and answerable.

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• 15 jan 2020

  Rennes

  Call for papers - Europe

  Make our own Walter Benjamin's “Experience and Poverty” ?

  We are not in 1933, nor are we threatened, here in Europe, as Walter Benjamin was when, between two apocalypses and already in exile, in an indifference due to historical circumstances, he published his short and incisive text « Experience and Poverty » in a Prague’s newspaper with short-lived existence. However, isn’t the assessment he made of an alliance, by the great creators, between « a total disenchantment about the age » and, nevertheless, « an unlimited commitment to it » also ours ? Not still ours (the Shoah and other catastrophes have shaken up, since then, the order of the thinkable), but again ours, as if we were at the point where, undertaking our poverty today or, disarming voluntarily, would be the lifeline, the way out to escape the inertia promised by a dark future.

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• 31 jan 2020

  01 fév 2020

  Conference, symposium - Representation

  Political demonstrations in cinema

  Relaying, reprising and reappropriating protest experiences

  Des Printemps arabes au mouvement des Gilets jaunes, les années 2010 ont vu surgir sur toute la planète de grands mouvements de contestation populaire. Dans l’irréductible diversité de leurs fins et de leurs destins, ces mobilisations ont donné l’occasion de ressaisir l’importance du rassemblement, comme forme d’expression politique « qui n’est pas réductible aux revendications et aux discours tenus par les acteurs » (Butler). Ce qui se joue dans la rue, sur une place, lorsqu’une foule manifestante se rassemble, c’est une lutte symbolique pour l’occupation du visible (Rancière), acte par lequel un peuple qui n’était pas pris en compte s’invente en se donnant à voir et à entendre, en se mettant en scène. Ce colloque propose de réinterroger les manières infiniment diverses qu’a eu le cinéma de créer des analyses, mémoires et imaginaires pluriels (voire concurrents) de l’expérience de la contestation politique. Ce, à partir de la manifestation en tant qu’objet ou motif qui traverse l’histoire et les genres du cinéma, autant que l’histoire sociale.

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• 01 jui 2019

  Mons

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Acting in the city. Art and politics in the urban space 4

  All about destruction

  Conformément à ses trois éditions précédentes, l’objectif du colloque « Agir dans la ville. Art et politique dans l'espace urbain 4 : De la destruction » est de réunir des chercheurs issus de différents champs disciplinaires tels que l’architecture, l’histoire de l’art, la sociologie, l’anthropologie, la philosophie, les arts et sciences de la communication, les langues et lettres, la géographie, le droit ou les sciences historiques autour d’une analyse critique de la dimension politique des interventions dans les espaces urbains. Afin de faire du colloque une véritable plateforme d’échanges et de débats scientifiques, chaque intervenant disposera d’un temps de parole de 40 minutes suivi d’un échange avec l’assistance de 20 minutes. Dans cette perspective, il est attendu des participants qu’ils assistent à l’entièreté du colloque.

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• 21 jan 2019

  Saint-Étienne

  Call for papers - Representation

  Today's imagination, and the digital worlds to come - the unthought and ideology

  "Representations and the future of the public sphere in the digital world" - Study Day II

  Nourrie par les regards croisés de théoriciens issus de différentes disciplines, cette journée d’étude se donne pour tâche d’interroger les discours, représentations et productions esthétiques liées à la place de la sphère publique dans le « numérique à venir », en prêtant une attention particulière aux impensés et idéologies qui entourent leur rencontre. L’enjeu réside ainsi dans le fait de penser la sphère publique dans sa matérialité, que les techniques et technologies de communication transforment et travaillent.

   

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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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• 28 fév 2018

  Loughborough

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Representation

  PhD Studentships, School of the Arts, English and Drama, Loughborough University

  The Politicised Practice Research Group in the The School of the Arts, English and Drama at Loughborough University is offering a three-year PhD scholarship for a practice-based research project starting in October 2018. We welcome the submission of high-quality proposals that have the potential to make a substantive contribution to research within the School and invite proposals that address the following research theme: Re-imagining citizenship through practice.

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