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CFP: 2009 Society for Utopian Studies Meeting Panel: Meditating on the Break
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CFP: 2009 Society for Utopian Studies Meeting Panel: Meditating on the Break
Society for Utopian Studies Meeting 2009
34th Annual Meeting
Blockade Runner Hotel
Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina
October 29-November 1 2009
Panel Organizer: Rob McAlear (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
This panel explores the way that contemporary utopian and dystopian narratives meditate on the break necessary for Utopia. The panel takes as its starting point Frederic Jameson’s claim in Archaeologies of the Future that “the Utopian form itself is the answer to the ideological conviction that no alternative is possible by forcing us to think the break itself” (232). How do utopian and dystopian narratives attempt to get their readers to think of alternatives without providing blueprints? What are the ramifications of attempting to present a purely formal break? Is it possible or desirable for utopian writing to have only a formal political impulse? How do utopias and dystopias differ in their attempt to goad us toward imagining radically different systems?
Topics might include, but are not limited to:
- Narratives which attempt to portray a Utopian break
- Textual depictions of failed revolutions
- Representations of radically different ideological systems
- Depictions of Feminist and Post-Colonial approaches for social change in Utopian writing
- Apocalyptic versus dystopian narratives.
- Alternative histories and systemic change
- The rhetoric of the break in President Obama’s political speeches and the media
- The trans-human and considerations of zero-ideology
- Formally innovative utopian and dystopian narratives
The deadline for paper proposals is April 1st, 2009. Please submit a 250 word abstract and a brief bio to Rob McAlear at rdmcalear_at_wisc.edu
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