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CENTER
for
Interdisciplinary Studies
in
PHILOSOPHY, INTERPRETATION, AND CULTURE
CPIC
CPIC is a center emerging from and linked with the
interdisciplinary graduate program in Philosophy, Interpretation, and
Culture (PIC). The center focuses on individual and collaborative
scholarly and research projects built around the participation of
faculty and advanced graduate students at Binghamton University and
throughout the United States, and internationally, building upon the
visibility and reputation of the PIC program. The center is to be
linked with PIC as its collaborative research and scholarly component.
CPIC recognizes the contemporary richness and extent of
attempts to decolonize subalternized knowledges at the tense
intersection of multiple oppressions. These attempts emphasize
recoveries of memory; histories of translations; encounters between
oral and written expressions; narrative, poetic and other artistic
experiments at the intersection of pluralities of histories; ecological
practices; knowledges and ways of thinking from various traditions.
CPIC also recognizes the need for spaces where these attempts can enter
into connections, reroutings, and pluralizations of memory beyond
disciplinary reductions, and strives to become one such space. Its
mission is to provide institutional support and resources for such
ongoing transdisciplinary research projects. Though dialogue between
anti-Eurocentric, counter-hegemonic, feminist, or multiculturalist
projects and Eurocentric and other masculinist discourses, has never
been straightforward and has been structured unequally in terms of
power, the center is also attentive to internal critiques of modernity
that are mindful of the possible connections with these attempts at
decolonization.
CPIC supports emergent forms of thinking critical of
attachments to disciplinary principles, of ways of thinking splitting
the knowing subject and the object known, of ways of knowing that
suppress the intersubjective dimension in the production of knowledge,
of forms of discourse that uphold linguistic purity. The center seeks
not only to support these new perspectives, but also to investigate the
difficult questions concerning their perilous relations with
institutionalized disciplinary practices and structures. It supports
attempts to disrupt recurrent distinctions between theory and practice,
knowledge and value, ethics and aesthetics, secular and sacred; radical
and self-critical forms of social understanding, anthropology, and
cultural studies, including autoethnography and autobiography;
expressive, performative, and reflective practices situated in between
more than one tradition and their historical relations; translations
and critiques that reveal how the West has translated itself into the
colonies and translations that aims at decolonization. CPIC wishes to
foster relations between creative and thinking people in and out of the
academy.
Please follow this link to the CPIC Webpage.
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