[Commlist] Call for Papers: Void, Lack and Destruction - Black Metal and Negativity

*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:

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*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.

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*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.

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*

*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.

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*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.

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*Phenomenological approach;*

- Phenomenological analysis of the act of listening to metal.

- Black metal as mood and atmosphere.

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*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.

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*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.*_

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*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.

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