[Commlist] CFP "Truth, fiction, illusion – worlds & experience"

Call for papers

*Truth**, fiction, illusion – worlds & experience*

Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (AAU) Association for Philosophy and 
Literature (APL) & Theory, Culture, and Society (TCS)**

*29 May – 2 June 2019: AAU Campus Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria*


Confirmed speakers include /Achille//Mbembe, Rosi Braidotti, Stuart 
Elden, Jeff Malpas, Sarah Nuttall and Bernard Stiegler/

Can anything further be said about truth? While contemporary worries 
about a post-truth world reinforce both ordinary and traditional senses 
of the word, a philosophical tradition that for centuries has not failed 
to put truth into question or critique finds itself in a situation 
echoing that faced by the Greeks at the dawn of philosophy.

Few would have dreamt, only a few years ago, that we would once again 
have such a compelling concern with the facts, with truth. But today’s 
authoritarian populism has returned us to questions of the fragility of 
truth. These questions have cast deep divisions in contemporary life. 
Tensions between truth and falsity, between the fictional and the 
fictitious, and between reality and illusion haunt contemporary 
experience. Social and cultural thought have for a long period 
questioned assumptions of ‘objective’ experience, but such assumptions 
continue to predominate in the homo economicus of today’s neoclassicism 
and neoliberalism.As prevalent is the fragmentation into worlds, 
subjective worlds, national worlds, the worlds of human and nonhuman 
beings. Such worlds are at the same time territories, digital platforms, 
communities, indeed in some cases commons. To what extent are such 
worlds themselves constituted through truths or fictions, through 
narratives? To what extent does this mean a break with representation 
altogether, whether in art, in literature, in politics? Or to what 
extent does it entail a radical rethinking of what representation is?

Tracing a line of thought from Nietzsche to Deleuze and beyond, one 
discovers in the objection to a pervasive “will to truth” the demand 
that thought be regarded instead as a form of creation. The oppositions 
through which truth has traditionally been understood (true and false, 
truth and error) do not apply, for instance, when one considers the 
literary text, where the question of whether there exists a natural or 
necessary correspondence with the world event remains a matter of 
conjecture.

We invite proposals for papers and for panels addressing some aspect of 
the conference theme, “Truth Fiction Illusion: Worlds and Experience.” 
Proposals may address any one of the given terms or explore those terms 
in their possible interrelatedness – with respect to philosophy, 
literature, theory, music, media, geography, film, culture, art, 
architecture, etc.

Please send both paper proposals and panel proposals to 
(info /at/ philosophyliterature.com) <mailto:(info /at/ philosophyliterature.com)>

*Deadline: 15th January 2019***

Further information: https://www.philosophyliterature.com__


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