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[Commlist] CFP Online Conference: Precarity and the Moving Image

Tue Aug 22 11:43:07 GMT 2023





This is a gentle reminder about the Call for Papers (CFP) for the inaugural online conference of The Cinematic Precarity Research Network <https://cinematicprecarityresearchnetwork.wordpress.com/>. The conference will be held online via Zoom on *December 14th, 2023*, under the theme */The Many Faces and Spaces of Precarity in the Moving Image/*.

We are thrilled to have *Prof. Guy Standing *as our distinguished keynote speaker.

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*/“Another world is not only possible; she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”/*

*/Arundhati Roy/*


The objective of this conference is to bring together academics working on the issue of precarity and its relationship with "the moving image." Definitions of precarity are diverse and sometimes conflicting. Many of them aim to capture the dynamics and social transformations associated with the neoliberal turn and the mechanisms of the gig economy.


However, this term has assumed various meanings and appears to encompass a broader social and emotional predicament. Ecological crises indicate a precariousness of existence and "the human" itself, while the sense of individualization and fragmentation resulting from an economy based on debt/credit connects with new concerning authoritarian trends. A sense of political helplessness is often associated with these social forces that enact and perpetuate processes of marginalization, which in turn favor increasingly violent mechanisms of exploitation. However, mapping the various manifestations and contexts of precarity also offers an opportunity to recognize the multiplicity of a vulnerable world and its inhabitants, while simultaneously highlighting new forms of political subjectivity.

Therefore, this call for papers aims to consider the polysemic and ever-evolving uses of the notion of precarity, while also describing strategies to address the challenges it presents. Precarity can refer to issues and problems of representation, analyzing how subjectivities on screen are shaped and how their definitions intersect along lines of class, race, gender, and ability/disability. Precarity may also encompass new issues in film and media production and distribution, aiding in the effective evaluation of tensions between mainstream and "niche" screen culture, as well as strategies to challenge such divisions. Understanding these mechanisms is also linked to the possibility of tracing the genealogies of precarity in the diverse histories of cinema and audiovisual production, examining hegemonic and counter-hegemonic trends in their development. In this sense, the discussion and critical assessment of political and social strategies aimed at addressing (or, conversely, standardizing) the precarious status of the industry are also of great interest. On a more philosophical level, the precarious status of moving images in contemporary artistic and affective infrastructure is also a theme to be explored and carefully examined.

The underlying hope in this call for papers is that studying and analyzing the various facets of precarity (from the climate crisis to new forms of exploitation and marginalization) is not limited to sophisticated identification of the cracks and contradictions defining our era. The analytical work that we earnestly hope to undertake together is to harness the power of moving images in order to ignite the critical and passionate imagination of a new world that responds to the supposed inevitability of the current state of affairs.

*We invite the submission of abstracts (maximum 300 words) along with brief biographies (maximum 150 words) for presentations of approximately 20 minutes in length. We encourage submissions that address the following topics:*

  * Precarity as a Strategy: The Neoliberal Governance
  * Ecological Precarity and the Precarious State of the Human;
    Eco-Fears and Necropolitics
  * Precarious Subjectivities and Spaces on Screen at the Intersection
    of Class, Gender, Race, Sexuality, Ability/Disability
  * Precarious Citizenship: Border as Method
  * Precarity and the Digital Economy; Digital Exhaustion
  * Precarity, Class, and Identity (and its problems?)
  * Discourses on Precarity, Social Activism, and New Unionism
* Precarity in Production, Circulation, and Participation in Media Culture
  * Political and Productive Strategies Responding/Resisting Dynamics of
    Precarisation
  * Genealogies of Precarity Beyond the Limits of Contemporaneity
  * Precarious Narratives and Counter-Subjectivation
  * The Precarious Status of Moving Images; New Forms of Circulation and
    Spectatorship
  * Precarity and the Affective Labour in Relation to Transfeminist Thought
  * Ways to Address Precarity in Terms of Public Policies

The *deadline *for abstract submissions is *September 15th, 2023*. Please send your abstracts and biographies to the following email address: (cinematicprecaritynet /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(cinematicprecaritynet /at/ gmail.com)>

We hope you have a pleasant summer.

Kind regards,

Dr. Maria Elena Alampi and Dr. Francesco Sticchi
Organizers


*Bibliographical References*

Burucúa, C. Sitnisky, C. (2018) “Introduction: Forms of the Precarious in the Cinemas of the Americas” In /The Precarious in the Cinema of Americas/. Burucúa, C. Sitnisky, C. (eds.). New York: Palgrave Macmillan: pp. 1-15.

Ciccarelli, R. (2021), /Labour Power: Virtual and Actual in Digital Production/, translated by E. C. Gainsforth. Cham: Springer Nature.

Federici, S. (2009) 2009. /Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation/, 3rd ed. New York: Autonomedia

Fisher, M. (2009) /Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?/. London: Zer0 Books.

Fraser, N. (2022) /Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet-and What We Can Do about it/. London: Verso.

Gago V. (2017) /Neoliberalism from Below: Popular Pragmatics and Baroque Economies/, trans. Mason-Deese L. London: Duke University Press.

Guattari, F. (1995) /Chaosmosis: An Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm/. trans. P. Bayns and J. Pefanis. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Jaffe, S. (2021) /Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone/. New York: Bold Type Books.

Kirsten, G. (2022) “Studying the Cinema of Precarity” In /Precarity in European Film/, E. Cuter, Kirsten G. Prenzel, H. (eds.). Berlin: De Gruyter: pp. 1-30.

Lorey, I. (2015)/ State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious/ fore. by Butler, J. London: Verso.

Marx, K. (1993) /Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy/, trans. and fore. by M. Nicolaus. London: Penguin Books.

Mbembe, A. (2019) /Necropolitics/, translation by S. Corcoran. London: Duke University Press.

Mezzadra, S. Nielson, B. (2019) /The Politics of Operations: Excavating Contemporary Capitalism/. London: Duke University Press.

Morini, C. (2010) /Per amore o per forza. Femminilizzazione del lavoro e biopolitiche del lavoro/ fore. by Judith Revel. Ombre Corte: Verona.

O’Shaughnessy, M. (2022) /Looking Beyond Neoliberalism: French and Francophone/

/Belgian Cinema and the Crisis/. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University press.

Piketty, T. (2014) /Capital in the Twenty-First Century/ trans. By A. Goldhammer <https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_2?ie=UTF8&field-author=Arthur+Goldhammer&text=Arthur+Goldhammer&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=books-uk>. London: Harvard University Press.

Robinson, C. J. (2021) /Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition/ fore. By R. D. G. Kelley and preface by C. J. Robinson, D. Sojoyner, and T. Willoughby-Herard. London: Penguin.

Sassen, S. (2014) /Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy/. London: Harvard University Press.

Standing, G. (2011) /The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class/. London: Bloomsbury.

Stimilli, E. (2019) /Debt and Guilt: A Political Philosophy/. London: Bloomsbury


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