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THE
EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL CALL FOR PAPERS STATEMENT We acknowledge our inheritance of various critiques
of the Academy, in which the Academy has been conceived multiply: as an
ideological instrument bent on creating capitalist workers, as the
technological bedfellow of the military-industrial complex, as a site that
systematically elides alterior narratives and reinscribes hegemonic processes, as a location predicated
on a disassemblage of the 'theoretical' from the
praxical. We seek in this conference to provide a dialogic space in
which to critique and reconfigure these radical analyses of 'knowledge-production,' as
well as to engage knowledges and epistemic formations which have been deemed
illegitimate or simply supplemental, and as a result have been concomitantly
tokenized, ghettoized, or ignored altogether. For, despite the
thorough deconstruction of a notion of the University as a politically
neutral site, we have also mythified the moments of
student revolt that have sought to introduce radical political praxis in the
space of the University. This mythification
fails to move us to rethink and concomitantly enact effective resistances to
current politico-economic conditions, while additionally forcing a re-membering of student revolt which elides instantiations
of resistant strategies and radical pedagogical practices both historically
and currently taking place in terrains which fall either 'beneath' or
'beyond' the radar of the Euro-/Westo-centric
Academy. A rethinking of Politics and the University, we suggest,
entails a consideration of 'disciplinarity' which
takes seriously the specific violences which attend
the institutionalization of 'knowledge' – violences
which both open up and close off certain ways and modes of knowing. We seek submissions that
both implicitly and explicitly engage these issues. Topics to consider
include: • How does
violence invest knowledge-production, and what are the (unintended)
productivities of this relation? • What is at stake
in the contemporary 'redisciplinarization' of and
'tokenization' within the university? • How do we understand/combat
the instrumentalization and militarization of
knowledge in the context of an increasingly 'entrepreneurial' academy? • What are the
contemporary possibilities of forming inter-, intra-, and para-institutional
collectivities, or of political engagements that reside in but transcend the
space of the University? How do these current possibilities relate to
many legacies of resisting violence and transforming not just the academy but
the social at large? Workers/writers/thinkers
of all different disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and non-disciplinary
stripes welcome. Submissions may be textual, performative, visual. Submission Guidelines Submission deadline: Please submit a 300-500
word abstract along with a cover letter that includes your name, academic
affiliation, contact numbers, complete mailing address, and e-mail address,
as well as information regarding any technological equipment you may need for
your presentation. Papers will be considered for a 20 minute presentation,
followed by discussion, so please limit the length of paper to 10-12 pages. Email address for
inquiries and electronic submission of abstracts: pic.conference.2008@gmail.com
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