Call For Papers
Language/Data: Science, Literature and the Circulating Crisis of Representation
Graduate Student Conference
Deadline: February 1, 2001
SUNY Buffalo, March 16-17, 2001
We are looking for papers that interrogate the problem of how
contemporary developments in the sciences can be reconciled with the
representational and signifying concerns of philosophy, art,
literature, and literary criticism, as well as how this timeless
conflict (or commensalism) has played itself out historically.
It seems that the continual point of contention between "the
sciences" (broadly conceived) and "the humanities"-the suspicion that
the terms and epistemological claims that form one field are
misappropriated by the other-stems from a certain literalism in both
camps, a literalism that assumes that the borrowing of metaphors
constitutes the breaching of a system in which metaphors are not mere
metaphors, and the representational constitutes something more than
mere representation. But the claim that these systems-symbolic,
fragile, and narrative despite themselves-have more than a symbolic
connection with phenomena, that a diagram can somehow itself be a
rendering of process without metaphor or distortion, is precisely the
claim that certain currents in philosophy and science have long
sought to question and is the area of debate that we hope to form
ourselves around for the purposes of this conference.
Elizabeth Grosz and Manuel DeLanda, Keynote Speakers
Details are available at http://www.trifectapress.com/language/
or contact:
Nathan Goldberg
Department of English
Clemens 307
SUNY Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260
or email at languagedata@trifectapress.com
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