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Imagination, the Commons, and Enclosures- 40th Anniversary Convention, NeMLA, 2/26- 3/1/09
| Location: | Massachusetts, United States |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2008-09-15 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2008-05-27 |
| Announcement ID: |
162551 |
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This panel questions the role and the power of imagination in creating an aesthetic praxis that is also political. The critical concepts of “general intellect,” “multitude,” and “creative commons” attempt to define the facts of an emerging sociality, that – despite the flourishing possibilities of access and a desire for uninhibited creativity and existence – suffers the threat of being subsumed under global forces of homogenization. What sort of a resistance can imagination, whether in political or in aesthetic praxis, provide when the same technologies that allow for spontaneous creativity also work to serve destructive and oppressive purposes? Could imagination, whether collective or individual, dare to repeat the attack of the historical avant-garde movements on social and aesthetic norms, let alone global political structures? We seek examinations on contemporary artistic and political endeavors, historical precedents, as well as theoretical exegeses of the related issues in contemporary critical theory. Please submit 250-500 word abstracts by September 15, 1008 to Irmak Ertuna, iertuna1_at_binghamton.edu. Please include with your abstract:
Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee)
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