[ecrea] ACGS Annual Conference: Where Are We Now? Temporalities of Globalisation

Third Annual ACGSConference

*Where**A**re****WeNow?TemporalitiesofGlobalisation*

*Amsterdam,15-16December2016*

*Confirmed speakers: Amy Allen (Pennsylvania State University), Louise 
Amoore (Durham University), Rolando Vazquez (Utrecht University)*

*_Extended deadline for abstracts: 1 June 2016_*

Globalisationisoftenseenasasingleprocess,unfoldinginasingletimeframethatservesasa 
universalmeasure.Thissynchronic,orperhapsbetterstill,monochronicconceptionofglobalisation’stemporalitycreatesproblematic 
distinctions betweenthe‘contemporary’ 
andthe‘archaic’,betweenthe‘modern’andthe‘traditional’andbetweenglobalisation’sGMTandcultures,subjectsandareasthatareseentoremainoutof 
time.Such avisionof 
thetemporalityofglobalisation,anditsunderlying'denialofcoevalness'(JohannesFabian), 
entailsaperpetuation of the dominantnarrative of modernisation and 
modernity asprogress and 
temporaladvance,astheintegration(orlackthereof)intheuniversalisingtimeframe 
of the contemporary (Amy Allen). Today, we witness many cultural 
practices that challenge, refute or 
problematisethisnarrative:fromnewformsofculturaltranslation(includingavalidationoftheuntranslatable)andtheproliferationofdecolonialaltermodernitiestotheemergenceofEuro-American 
populist nostalgia; fromaccelerationismand hyper-temporalities 
(suchasthatofclimatechange),torenewedappraisalsof 
slownessandreflectiononthe/endoftemporality/(FredricJameson).

The2016Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies conference highlights 
theurgencytoreconsiderglobalisationfromtheperspectiveoftoday’smultipletemporalities.Wewanttoexplorenewconceptualisationsof 
themultiple,differentiatedtemporalitiesof globalisation. What if still 
dominant representations of globalisation as an unfolding process – an 
agent of sorts that is alternatively embraced, resisted, missed out on; 
that homogenises or pluralises – are simply inadequate to grasp what we 
refer to as globalisation today? We call for contributions that 
investigate globalisation as the simultaneity 
ofdifferentandradicallydivergenttemporalities.Emergingdecolonialtemporalities(Walter 
Mignolo), Euro-American populist withdrawal, re-emerging imperialisms 
(U.S., Europe, Russia, Middle East, China), the project of 
de-imperialisation, de-Cold War and de-colonisation (Chen Kuan-Hsing), 
24/7 neo-capitalism (Jonathan Crary), thehyper-temporality of 
climatechange,imperial ruination(AnnLauraStoler), theexclusionof 
statesandregions(i.e.Africa,Greece)fromtherhythmsofneoliberalcapitalism(Maurizio 
Lazzarato), high-speed financial trading, revelations of global economic 
warfare,agingworkforces (Europe,Japan):alltheseexamples 
demonstratethatglobalisation,initspresent,singulartense,nolongercoversourfracturedandmulti-temporalpresent.
Weinvite theoretical and empirical interventions to analyse the ways in 
whichglobalisation’smanifoldtemporalities–andtheirproblematization–appearinthesocio-­‐culturalrealm:fromdecolonialcinemaandnovelsflauntingtheiruntranslatabilitytothewaynewsandsocialmedia‘chase’eachother;fromtheuseofextremedurationintheatreandcontemporaryartandthefashionabilityofyogaclassesandmindfulnesstotheglobalboominplasticsurgeryandexpressionsofimperialnostalgia;fromtheseemingendlessnessof 
crisis to regressive and progressive attempts to find a'way out of here'.

The2016 ACGS conference welcomes papers that explore the complexity and 
radicalheterogeneity oftoday’splanetarytemporalities.Possibletopicsinclude:

-decolonial temporalities

-cultural translation and untranslatability

-out-of-timeness and 'backward' peripheries within globalised economic 
spheres (i.e. the Greek crisis, North Korea, Belarus)

-differences between and intersections of urban/rural temporalities

-chronotopias, from the Western metropolitan yearning for ‘slowness’ to 
dreams of fully automated market transactions

-affective temporalities, i.e. burn-out, exhaustion, YOLO/FOLO, 
things-to-do-before-you-‐die/bucket lists

-ecology: the hyper-temporality of climate change

-the temporal dimensions of neo-imperialisms, for example the Ukraine 
crisis, Euro‐American interference in the Middle East

-debris of empire, imperial ruinations

-cycles and crisis: social, financial, personal

-discourses of contemporaneity, i.e. the managerial/neoliberal rhetoric 
of ‘this is no longer of today’

-utopias of timelessness, i.e. the Islamic State, populism, communism

-theories and representations of end times, i.e. biological extinction, 
the end of capitalism, the end of the welfare state, eschatological 
imaginaries in popular culture

-temporalities of precarity (flexibility, just-in-time, absent futures)

-the withering away of ‘the future’ as universal telos in culture and theory

-entropy in culture, economy and ecology

-temporalities of security (pre-emption and precaution)

-uneven development and creative destruction

-homogenisation of time as effect and condition of the logic of capital

Please submit an abstract (200-300 words) and short bio (max. 100 words) 
by 1 June 2016 to (acgs-fgw /at/ uva.nl) <mailto:(acgs-fgw /at/ uva.nl)>. Notice of 
acceptance will be given by 15 June 2016. Conference fee: 50 Euros (25 
Euros for PhD students). Conference dinner: 25 Euros.

Organisers: Joost de Bloois, Marieke de Goede, Yolande Jansen, Jeroen de 
Kloet, Esther Peeren, Kati Röttger.

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