CFP: Deterritorialization After Deleuze (10/15/04; ACLA, 3/11/05-3/13/05)

Seminar title:
Deterritorialization After Deleuze

This seminar--which will meet at the 2005 ACLA Conference at Penn State
University--proposes to address the conference theme of imperialism by
considering the concept of deterritorialization, a term devised by Gilles
Deleuze and Félix Guattari in their reading of Franz Kafka as a subject of
Imperial Austria. This seminar will specifically address the significance of
"deterritorialization," a term Deleuze and Guattari use variously with
respect to individual psyches, social collectives, literary forms, etc., for
marginalized and colonized cultures. As such, we propose to examine the term
simultaneously in its ethical, psychological, and political implications.
Dismantling the concept into these separate domains of thought inevitably
goes against the grain of Deleuze and Guattari's methodology; nonetheless,
the critique that this focus enables will contribute to an understanding
both of the significance of this term to post-structuralist and
post-colonial discourse generally, as well as the implications of this idea
in a variety of contemporary cultural applications. In the terms of the
theory itself, this seminar aims to achieve a reterritorialization of
Deleuze and Guattari's work, with the purpose of suggesting further
deterritorializations both of contemporary theory, and the respective
research areas that our panelists will bring together through their
presentation and collaboration.

Please submit individual paper proposals to this seminar at the ACLA website
<http://www.outreach.psu.edu/programs/ACLA/> by October 15, 2004.

For inquiries into this seminar, contact Marc Caplan at <aqc1774_at_nyu.edu>

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