CFP: The Politics and Aesthetics of Refusal (grad) (Australia) (2/18/05; 4/15/05)

From Philament <philament_at_arts.usyd.edu.au>
Date February 4, 2005
CFP CFP: The Politics and Aesthetics of Refusal Conference (grad)(Aust)
        (15/04/05)
Deadline Extended to February 18, 2005

Philament Conference: ‘The Politics and Aesthetics of Refusal’
Darlington Centre, The University of Sydney
April 15, 2005

Philament, the online journal of cultural studies and literary arts affiliated
with the University of Sydney
(http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/publications/philament), invites postgraduate
scholars to contribute single-page proposals for an upcoming conference on ‘The
Politics and Aesthetics of Refusal.’

Art, writes Herbert Marcuse, has ‘magic power only as the power of negation. It
can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse
and refute the established order.’ Marcuse’s call for cultural production to
refuse the limitations of hegemonic culture has particular resonance in a
contemporary political and cultural landscape where patterns of production,
distribution and consumption are increasingly regulated and homogenized. To
refuse is to be against consensus, to be contrarian, to be non-conformist.
Refusal presents itself as a strategy for resisting the totalising forces of
normative thought and practice. It contains the potential for a form of
immanent critique which operates within the parameters of dominant order whilst
simultaneously rejecting its uniformity.

We are looking for proposals that consider social and political acts, as well as
acts of literature and art which refuse hegemonic paradigms of theory and
praxis.

Papers may address, but are not limited to:

*unilateralism and/or isolationism
*culture jamming
*counter-culture
*sub-cultures
*nomadology
*autonomous activism
*avant-garde aesthetics
*extremism
*alterity
*deviance
*subversion

Please note:

Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes. Please send proposals as email
attachment in a PC-readable format (preferably Microsoft Word) to
philament_at_arts.usyd.edu.au no later than February 18, 2005.

For further information visit
http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/publications/philament.

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