The 2004 Pacific Rim Conference on Literature & Rhetoric is extending
the CFP deadline to January 1, 2004.
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2004 Pacific Rim Conference on Literature & Rhetoric
“Laws Without Outlaws: Territory / Utopia / Transgression”
Conference dates: March 4-6, 2004
University of Alaska Anchorage
Website: http://www.laws-without-outlaws.us
We are excited to announce the confirmation of our keynote speakers:
Dr. Kristin Ross, New York University, author of May ’68 & Its
Afterlives
Dr. Jeffrey Paris, University of San Francisco, co-editor of New
Critical Theory: Essays on Liberation.
The Pacific Rim Conference on Literature & Rhetoric, in its 9th year,
is a graduate conference held every year on the campus of the
University of Alaska Anchorage. As always, we welcome critical papers
on all topics pertaining to literature, literary studies, and
rhetoric; however, this year, in an attempt to effect broader
discursive and political analyses, we are also encouraging multi-
disciplinary submissions.
Call for Papers:
Crisis—or the state of exception as Giorgio Agamben terms it—has come
to constitute the very conditions of our political economies.
Although there is no single crisis, there is a singularity of crisis
invoked in such a way as to foreclose cultural conversations and limit
the terms of our ethical investigations. The state of exception,
then, is the state in totality, whereby the juridical and the ethical
empty into the same singularity and exhaust future questions of
possibility and resistance; thus, state sovereignty legitimated
through crisis is marked by its ability to either efficiently absorb
dissent or entirely repress discourse in a ruthless declaration of
positive right. In this state of crisis, any expression of desire
outside the symbolic logic of power is deemed impossible or judged
illegal—or worse, appropriated through economies of fantasy
as “utopian” and thus harmless.
The title and theme for the 2004 conference—“Laws Without Outlaws:
Territory / Utopia / Transgression”—aims to invoke multitudinous
states of oppression, repression, and suppression as enforced across
networks of ideological and textual registers. In this regard, we
are interested in opening a forum of critique in which to excavate
systems of political, discursive, and ethical totalities and situate
questions of liberation within a broad spectrum of disciplines,
periods, and cultures. Possible topics include, but are not limited
to:
* Illegal jouissance: anarchy and post-structuralism
* Utopia in the discourses of nationalism and resistance
* Laughter, transgression, philosophies of un-knowing
* Representations of outlaws: outlawed representations
* Homo Sacer: narratives of sublime delinquency
* The borders of bodies: corporeal transgression, erotica, sexuality
* (Post)colonial insurgencies; literatures of resistance
* The bodies of borders: architecture, geography, subjectivity
* Surveillance unveiled
* ‘Carceral Archipelagos’ vs. ‘Pirate Utopias’
* Crisis as kairos as topos
* Ideology: interpellation, insurgency, desire
* [Levinas]: Effecting an “ethics before and beyond ontology”
* Resistant histories: civil rights, class conflict, & critical
feminisms
* Arrestive rhetorics and generative rhetorics
* Aesthetic resistances: situationalism, immediatism, flash mobs
* Blogs as political weapon
* Cyborg & Posthuman discourses as site of crisis
We are now accepting proposals for both individual papers and panel
organizations. Please send abstracts and proposals to Sol Neely,
conference director, at aporia@uaa.alaska.edu.
Individual abstracts should be 200-300 words for a 20 minute
presentation. We will assess and organize individual papers into
panels of three or four.
Panel proposals should be 500 words for an 1 hour-15 minute session.
Please include the session title, name of organizer, institutional
affiliation, discipline or department, along with the chair’s name and
participants’ names.
The submission deadline is Janurary 1, 2004.
Please direct all questions and concerns to:
Sol Neely, conference director
English Department
University of Alaska Anchorage
(907) 786-4348
aporia@uaa.alaska.edu
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