CFP: States of Exposure (8/25/03; ACLA '04, 4/15-4/18/04)
Seminar proposal for American Comparative Literature Association Annual
Meeting in Ann Arbor, MI, 4/15-4/18/2004
Exposure can be defined as a condition of passivity before an
uncontrollable alterity. We propose its treatment as a key concept
through which to rethink the logic of the subject, be it the political
subject, the witness to the event, the embodied subject, or the affective
subject. It may also be regarded as a concept that perhaps more than any
other defines the event to which art is above all dedicated and which art
tries to bring about. Figures and topics of investigation include:
exposure to light, the encounter with the stranger, shame, nudity, shock,
the nomadic/exilic subject, the unsheltered, and woundedness.
Interdisciplinary work in literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, film,
and the visual arts is particularly welcome.
Deadline for Abstracts (250 words): 9/19/03
For more information or questions, please contact:
Emily Sun
Dept. of English
Colgate University
esun@mail.colgate.edu
or
Eyal Peretz
Literature Concentration
Harvard University
peretz@fas.harvard.edu
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