[ecrea] call for papers: Critical Spaces: Disorienting the Topological

London Graduate School
Critical Spaces: Disorienting the Topological
A graduate conference in the critical humanities
Kingston University, London
Monday 5th January 2015
Keynote Speakers:

Claire Colebrook
Eyal Weizman
Eleni Ikoniadou
Fred Botting

Call for Papers:

“The present epoch will perhaps be above all the epoch of space.” — 
Michel Foucault ‘Of Other Spaces’
“Oh God! I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of 
infinite space.” —Hamlet

Foucault’s assertion that the present epoch will be one of space 
immediately evokes the temporal.  Whether we consider our epoch as 
modern, postmodern, or as nonmodern, the philosophical treatment of 
space has been subordinated to time. Elizabeth Grosz has suggested that 
philosophy could draw on architecture to consider itself as a form of 
building or dwelling rather than as reflection of thought, evoking the 
spatial already implied by Heidegger. Occupy Wall Street and other 
recent anti-establishment protests in Brazil and Istanbul have been 
defined by journalist Bernardo Gutierrez as forming ‘a new architecture 
of protest’, convened by networks of consensus rather than dominant 
groups and ideology. Current theories and practices surrounding 
geopolitics, metamodelling, neuroscience, cartography and choreography 
support this growing emphasis on spatiality – whether focusing on 
produced space, social space and spaces of resistance, imaginary and 
poetic space, psychoanalytical and embodied space, sovereign space, 
performative space, digital space and/or virtual space.

This conference invites interdisciplinary approaches to the spatial. In 
particular we are interested in how thinking spatially or spatial 
practices reveal and open up disruptive, subversive or minoritarian 
fields within already existing discourses, be they philosophical, 
political, cultural or aesthetic. As Foucault has done in defining 
heterotopias, and as Edward Soja shows us through the idea of ‘thirding 
as othering’, it aims to rupture not only the particularities of those 
discourses, but the very possibility of thought itself through 
challenging existing borders, boundaries, horizons, surfaces and planes.

We welcome proposals from all approaches including but not limited to: 
New Materialisms, Non-philosophy, Philosophy and Praxis, Cultural 
Studies, Political Theory, Geography, Architecture, Postcolonial Theory, 
Feminist and Queer Theory, Literature, Visual Cultures, and Art Theory 
and Practice, which consider space in the broadest terms. We also 
welcome proposals for practice based approaches and interventions.


Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to 
(lgscriticalspaces /at/ gmail.com) by Friday 14 November 2014.


http://www.thelondongraduateschool.co.uk/blog/call-for-papers-critical-spaces-disorienting-the-topological/


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