[Commlist] CFP - The Culture Industry 2.0

*South African Society for Critical Theory 4^th Annual Conference*

*17 – 19 November 2022*

*North-West University South Africa*

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*Culture Industry 2.0: **Africa, Global South, World**

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/The South African Society for Critical Theory is pleased to announce 
the keynote speakers for its forthcoming conference...///

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*Keynote Speaker: Samir Gandesha (Simon Fraser University)***

Associate Professor in the Department of the Humanities and the Director 
of the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University, 
specializing in modern European thought and culture with a particular 
emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. He is co-editor with Lars 
Rensmann of /Arendt and Adorno: Political and Philosophical 
Investigations/ (Stanford, 2012), and with Johan Hartle of /Spell of 
Capital: Reification and Spectacle/ (University of Amsterdam Press, 
2017) and /Aesthetic Marx/ (Bloomsbury Press, 2017). In the Spring of 
2017, he was the Liu Boming Visiting Scholar in Philosophy at the 
University of Nanjing and Visiting Lecturer at Suzhou University of 
Science and Technology in China. He also taught a course on the 
“Neo-Liberal Personality” in the Summer Semester at the University of 
Sao Paulo in Brazil in February, 2019 and is a regular contributor to 
/openDemocrac/y.

*Keynote Speaker: Christopher Allsobrook (University of Fort Hare)***

The Director of the Centre for Leadership Ethics in Africa (CLEA), at 
the University of Fort Hare (UFH), based in the Govan Mbeki Research and 
Development Centre (GMRDC). His research focus is in African Political 
Theory and Ethics, with a basis in South African Intellectual History 
and in Cultural History. He is trained in Philosophy and in Political 
Theory (primarily, Marxian Critical Theory). His current research 
projects include, ‘A Genealogy of Imperial Trusteeship in the Political 
Philosophy of Jan Smuts’; ‘Universal Human Rights in African Customary 
Norms’; ‘African Traditional Leadership’, and, most recently, ‘Ideology 
and Displacement in African Land Reform’. He currently leads the UFH 
Humanities and Social Sciences Research Niche Area, in “Democracy, 
Heritage and Citizenship”.

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*Next Gen Keynote Speaker: Kiasha Naidoo (University of the Western Cape)***

/The Next Generation Keynote is intended as a means of supporting and 
developing future SA thought-leaders by offering early career academics 
the opportunity to deliver a keynote address.///

Kiasha’s research has to do with thinking neoliberalism as a governing 
rationality in the domain of means and ends. Moreover, to consider the 
way that such a rationality might bear on the human subject in terms of 
its ontology as fundamentally futural. She draws on the work of Michel 
Foucault and Wendy Brown in order to consider the functioning, limits, 
and high points of the exercise of power on subjects and collectivities 
with regard to life and death. Her research interest includes the 
effects of a neoliberal governmentality on our democratic ideals, 
notions of political collectivity, as well as on virtues and ends such 
as freedom, equality, and justice.

The South African Society for Critical Theory (SASCT) invites abstract 
submissions of up to 300 words for its 4^th  Annual Conference which 
will take place at the Potchefstroom Campus of the North-West 
University, from the 17^th to the 19^th  of November 2022. This will be 
a hybrid conference, with in-person attendance recommended but with 
accommodation made for online participation and presentations.

SASCT invites papers which address the concept of the culture industry, 
as described by Adorno and Horkheimer in /Dialectic of Enlightenment. 
/The culture industry sees forms of culture become part of the 
capitalist system of production which in the contemporary age has seen 
commodification spread from "culture" to all non-work activities of 
humanity - hobbies, sports, self-improvement, mental health, tourism, 
and so on. Of particular interest in this regard is the examination of 
the perils and potentialities of the imminent total colonisation of the 
life world, strategies of resistance, points of breakdown, as well as 
cultural and natural heritage as a public good or commodity – all 
questions that Critical Theory is geared to address.

As part of such considerations, this conference welcomes papers that 
consider the question of the culture industry in relation to Critical 
Theory, including but not limited to:

·What might a critical analysis of the contemporary culture industry reveal?

·What stance should Critical Theory adopt towards the culture industryin 
both its modern figurations, but also historically?

·How does the culture industry figure into contemporary education?

·Has the coronavirus outbreak affected the contemporary culture 
industry, and in what ways does nature’s otherness influence the culture 
industry?

·How does migration factor into the culture industry of the world today?

·How is the culture industry functioning in relation to postcoloniality, 
and what does an "African Culture Industry" entail?

The conference welcomes approaches from all aspects of Critical Theory, 
broadly construed. In particular, the conference welcomes papers that 
address issues relating to: African Critical Theory, Digital Culture, 
the intersections between Critical Theory of European origin (Frankfurt 
School, Foucault, etc.), Black Existentialism, and Africana Critical 
Theory as well as contributions *on any and all* aspects of Critical 
Theory, e.g. the 3 generations of Frankfurt School Critical Theory, 
Postcolonial Theory, De-colonial Theory, Critical Feminism, Critical 
Film Studies, Critical Race Theory, Critical Theory of Technology, 
Critical Legal Studies, Post-structuralism, Psychoanalysis, Critical 
Hermeneutics, Liberation Theory, Critical Pedagogy, Critical Theology, 
Critical Anthropology, etc.

The Conference organisers would also appreciate papers that address 
thinkers whose work lies outside the “canon” of Critical Theory, but 
whose work can extend current research in Critical Theory or whose work 
in itself embodies alternative forms of Critical Theory. Whilst the 
organisers encourage contributions that address the conference theme, 
the theme itself should be viewed as merely suggestive.

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*_Submission_*

Please submit a 300-word abstract to (sascrit /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(sascrit /at/ gmail.com)> by the 23^rd of September 2022. Acceptance 
letters will be sent by the 30^th of September at the latest. The full 
paper should be no more than 3500-4000 words for a 30 min. presentation. 
Proposals for panel discussion are also welcome.

*_Accommodation_*

In-person attendance at Sports Village 
<http://services.nwu.ac.za/sports-village>in Potchefstroom, South 
Africa. Accommodation is available at the conference venue (Sports 
Village <http://services.nwu.ac.za/sports-village/accommodation>) – 
submit queries to (sportsvillage /at/ nwu.ac.za) <mailto:(sportsvillage /at/ nwu.ac.za)>.

A list of alternative places to stay will also be provided.

Arrangement will be made for online attendance by international 
participants.

*_Conference fees_*

The fee for the three-day conference (including teas and lunches) is 
R800 (including VAT).

The fee for participating graduate and PhD students is R150.

International speakers who are participating online must pay an online 
fee of R150.

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*_Special issue_*

Note also that a special issue on the theme of the conference will be 
published in/Acta Academica: critical views on society, culture and 
politics/, a DHET-accredited journal.

*_Contact us_*

Should you have queries regarding any aspect of the conference then 
please do not hesitate to contact the conference organising committee:

Jean du Toit: (jean.dutoit /at/ nwu.ac.za) <mailto:(jean.dutoit /at/ nwu.ac.za)>(host)

Gregory Swer: (gregswer /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(gregswer /at/ gmail.com)>

Ewa Latecka: (LateckaE /at/ unizulu.ac.za) <mailto:(LateckaE /at/ unizulu.ac.za)>

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