[ecrea] CFP: Economies of Cultural Knowledge / London Conference in Critical Thought 2017

*CFP: Economies of Cultural Knowledge *

at London Conference of Critical Thought 2017

London South Bank University, 30 June & 1 July

londoncritical.org <http://londoncritical.org/> / @LondonCritical 
<https://twitter.com/LondonCritical>

Neo-liberal capitalism has asserted the primacy of “knowledge” in the 
cultural sphere. Its “Knowledge Economy” agenda has renewed the 
dialectics of reason and faith, autonomy and control, progress and 
tradition. “Creative Industries”, with their attendant emphasis on 
innovation, information and intellectual property, loom large in this 
renewal – as do accelerating market and managerial logics in the 
structures of education and governance that feed the broader “Cultural 
Economy”. Yet a period of “flexibility” and “disruption” appears to have 
prefaced a crisis of liberalism: post-truth, alternative facts and 
anti-expertise abound. What, for cultural actors, is to be welcomed or 
feared in this climate?

This stream of the conference seeks greater understanding of relations 
between knowledge, culture and economy. Centrally, it asks two questions:

  * How are cultural knowledges situated, practiced and legitimated,
    such that they enter into circuits of production, distribution,
    consumption and valorisation?
  * What can focused attention on cultural knowledge reveal about the
    broader context of social and political change?
Possible pathways might explore (but are not limited to):

  * How *expertise* is made via researchers, teachers, advisors,
    brokers, analysts, “thought leaders”, knowledge exchange,
    apprenticeship, discipline-formation, credentialisation.
  * The *technical infrastructure* of logistics, funding, markets,
    labour, management, monetisation, ownership, logging, measurement,
    prediction, analysis.
  * *Alternative knowledges* of non-hegemonic communities, exploring how
    knowledge can be raced, classed, gendered or otherwise become
    minoritarian, as well as the role of gossip, rumour, myth,
    conspiracy theory.
Critical investigations are welcomed, whether contemporary or 
historical, from a range of theoretical and disciplinary positions. The 
stream assumes that the conceptual and the material are co-constitutive; 
as such, the mutual engagement of empirical description with critical 
re-theorisation is encouraged.

*Deadline: 31 March 2017*

Please send submissions to: (paper-subs /at/ londoncritical.org) 
<mailto:(paper-subs /at/ londoncritical.org)>

Stream Organisers: Toby Bennett & Alexandra Reynolds

Click here for full conference CFP: 
http://londoncritical.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/LCCT-CFP-2017-Final-170217.pdf

*2017 Conference Themes:*

• Art in the Time of Capital. • A/Political Feeling. • Bridging Memory, 
Temporality and the Digital. • Constructing Cultures of Collective 
Freedom. • Desire and the Political: Exploring the Not-All of Language. 
• Economies of Cultural Knowledge. • Theorizing Ethics and Politics in 
Ethnographic Practice. • The Good is Perfected by Care. • Habit, 
Addiction, and Thought. • NUDGE: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on 
Choice Architecture. • Politics and the Theological. • Politics of 
Poverty. • Radical Hospitality. • Vernacular Aesthetics of the Global City.

**

*About the London Conference in Critical Thought:*

LCCT aims to provide opportunities for those who frequently find 
themselves at the margins of their department or discipline to engage 
with other scholars who share theoretical approaches and interests. 
Central to the vision of the conference is an inter-institutional, 
non-hierarchal, and accessible event that makes a particular effort to 
embrace emergent thought and the participation of emerging academics, 
fostering new avenues for critically-oriented scholarship and collaboration.


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