Authority & Political Technologies 2014 conference at Warwick – announcement and call for papers

Reposting this call for papers as the deadline is fast approaching and because there are four travel and accommodation bursaries to support the attendance of PhD students or financially insecure post-docs. Apply for a bursary by Monday March 10th.

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Authority & Political Technologies 2014                                                  

Power in a World of Becoming, Entanglement & Attachment                          

‘In every era the attempt must be made anew to rescue tradition from a conformism that is about to overpower it’ (Walter Benjamin) 

June 2-3, 2014. University of Warwick

Confirmed Speakers:

  • William Connolly (Johns Hopkins)
  • Christian Borch (CBS, Copenhagen)
  • Costas Douzinas (Birkbeck)
  • Amade M’charek (Amsterdam)
  • Luciana Parisi (Goldsmiths)
  • AbdouMaliq Simone (Goldsmiths) 

Conference Organisers:

Claire Blencowe & Illan rua Wall – Authority & Political Technologies (APT) Warwick

Suggested Themes:

  • Biopolitics and Political Spirituality/Religion
  • Materialism and the Political Meaning of Entanglement
  • Authority, Sovereignty and Becoming in the (Post) Colony
  • Process and New Forms of Society(ism), Association and Being in Common
  • Necropolitics and Human Rights

Recently, there have been various calls for a move beyond ‘post-structuralism’ (i.e. Foucault, Deleuze, cultural/critical theory), which had…

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