[Previous message][Next message][Back to index]
[Commlist] Call for Papers: Void, Lack and Destruction - Black Metal and Negativity
Tue Dec 18 15:33:05 GMT 2018
*Void, Lack, and Destruction – Black metal and negativity*
*International Black Metal Theory Symposium*
Organized by Radio Študent, ŠFD Philosophy students Organisation, KUD
Anarhiv
/The inflation of the cosmos/
/Receive the world/
/Larva formed in glorious negativity/
/Another form readying the destroyer/
(Leviathan, Receive the World, Massive Conspiracy Against All Life)
/*The inflation of the cosmos.*//In the last decade, the speculative
resurrection of non-conceptual negativity on a cosmic scale is taking
place./
/*Receive the world*//. Blame philosophy, blame science, blame
technology, blame politics. As a probably most completed (sonically,
aesthetical, metaphysical, political and cryptic) form of negativity,
black metal was soon, yet with considerable historical latency,
established as a theoretical forefront of such a resurrection. blame
black metal. Blame black metal as a form of thinking, which at the same
time establish and eliminate the contradiction of contemporary
historical conjuncture. Also, blame black metal for its /truth of
extinction/and numerous ontological and political consequences that follow./
/*Larva formed in glorious negativity.*//Between the years of 2009 and
2015, several Black Metal Theory Symposiums were conducted, which
foregrounded the subterranean world of interconnected forces of theory
and black metal, both in the widest possible terms. Our aim is /
/to resurrect such a glorious and larval (non)connection once again,
especially in our regional context of a theoretical tradition that was
fully preoccupied with a limited conception of negativity on the one
hand and analytical preoccupation with other, more affirmative
subcultural tendencies on the other./
/*Another form readying the destroyer*//. We also believe – what an
inappropriate word – we could create an opportunity to critically
reflect on black metal theory, especially in the context of further
penetration of black metal in (popular) culture and often contested
multifarious nature of black metal, but also to reflect on a wider
epistemical, historical and para-institutional conditions for the
constitution of black metal theory. Perhaps the time is right for the
second wave of black metal theory or perhaps it is time to put black
metal theory in oblivion to resurrect in another time and another place./
The *International conference *will be held in *Ljubljana, Slovenia *on
*18th**April 2019*. Our main goal//is to use knowledge of different
disciplines to advance the study of specific topics related to black
metal and similar phenomena. We also hope to contribute to the further
theorization of black metal and development of black metal theory.
The editorial board welcomes particularly (but not exclusively)
contributions focusing on aspects of negativity in black metal as well
as the following approaches to the theorization of black metal:
*
*
*Metatheoretical, critical approach towards black metal theory.*
- Why black metal theory?
- What is black metal theory? I.e., the (re)conceptualization of black
metal theory.
- Is there a theory inherent to black metal or is it only a theory about
black metal?
- Unilateral/bilateral relation between theory and black metal.
- What is the relation between black metal theory and (black) metal studies?
- An assessment of black metal theory: Is it consistent? What are its flaws?
- Contextualization: the historical conjuncture of theory/philosophy and
black metal.
- Black metal (theory) as an inhuman mode of thinking.
- Black metal as a form of (non)mediation and or (non)communication.
*
*
*Politics of metal;*
- National socialist black metal - a take-over or an inner tendency?
- New right movements and black metal.
- Anti-fa strategies against the far right in metal.
- The metalhead as a militant.
- Black metal as a form of ideology.
- Black metal and nostalgia.
- Black metal and its relation to modernity and civilization.
- Black metal as a xenochronic temporality.
- Black metal and its utopian and dystopian tendencies.
- Black metal as a form of xenopolitics.
*
*
*Cultural and historiographical approach;*
- Wider historical contextualization of black metal.
- Black metal as a subculture.
- Different cultural forms of black metal.
- Aesthetics of black metal.
- Popularity of black metal, i.e., the mainstreaming of black metal.
- Black metal, nature and ecology.
- Black metal and technology.
*
*
*Black metal, religion and metaphysics*
- Black metal, theology and atheology.
- Receptions of different religions in black metal.
- Metal as religion.
- Strategies of desecration.
*Musicological approach;*
- Analysis of techniques and sonic procedures of black metal and related
genres.
- Influences of the development of specific technologies on the
evolution of metal music.
*
*
*Phenomenological approach;*
- Phenomenological analysis of the act of listening to metal.
- Black metal as mood and atmosphere.
*
*
*Black metal in Slovenia;*
- Formation, history and local specifics of black metal scene in
Slovenia/Yugoslavia/Eastern Europe.
- Black metal in the context of socialism/postsocialism.
- Musicological specificities of Slovenian or East European Black metal.
*
*
*New perspectives and innovative approaches to the conceptualization of
black metal and related phenomena.*
*We invite proposals for panels, roundtable discussions, and papers
addressing the outlined conference theme. Abstracts of under 250 words
should be sent to (bmt.ljubljana /at/ gmail.com)
<mailto:(bmt.ljubljana /at/ gmail.com)> by*
_*20th January 2019 at the latest.*_
_*
*_
*Submissions should include the author's name, academic qualification,
institutional affiliation and position, contact information (address,
email).*
Scholars who will submit their proposals by this deadline will be
notified of their acceptance prior to 15th February 2019. The official
language of the conference is English.
_FB Void, Lack in Destruction
<https://www.facebook.com/Void-Lack-and-Destruction-Black-metal-and-negativity-217225469198443/?eid=ARCFvnHqnzM1J5mG8IQuuAbBTTkN7rC7XT8vu37a3yw0ogqIS8tkbQhDt9kF3xgHpGWVI0ztNrtYwUef>_
---------------
The COMMLIST
---------------
This mailing list is a free service offered by Nico Carpentier. Please use it responsibly and wisely.
--
To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://commlist.org/
--
Before sending a posting request, please always read the guidelines at http://commlist.org/
--
To contact the mailing list manager:
Email: (nico.carpentier /at/ vub.ac.be)
URL: http://nicocarpentier.net
---------------
[Previous message][Next message][Back to index]
