What: Conference/Workshop – “Between Deleuze and Foucault”
When: November 30, 2012 through December 1, 2012
Where: West Faculty Lounge, Purdue Memorial Union, Purdue University
Who: John Protevi, Len Lawlor, Alan Schrift, Todd May, Anne Sauvagnargues, Paul Patton, William Connolly, Ladelle McWhorter, Dianna Taylor, Thomas Flynn, Colin Koopman and Alan Rosenberg
A partir d’une problématisation de la structure théorétique de la philosophie de Deleuze, il y a la possibilité de montrer le rôle centrale qu’y joue l’image de la pensée. Ensuite, à la lumière de quelques références kantiennes, il faudra voir que le discours deleuzien sur l’image de la pensée, en réagissant au pouvoir de cette image, en montre un certain puissance inépuisable.
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The English Department at TamkangUniversity, the publisher of the internationally renowned Tamkang Review, is pleased to announce that it will be hosting The First International Deleuze Studies in Asia Conference on the theme Creative Assemblages, May 31- June 2, 2013, and, prior to the conference, the Deleuze Camp, May 25-29, 2013.
Creative Assemblages
As one of the most important terms in Gilles Deleuzes oeuvre,assemblage refers to the territory of an object along with its own regime of signs and pragmatic system. Yet assemblage also refers to the forces of deterritorialization underlying the structure which enable the formation of new connections. In other words, the Deleuzian assemblage is not only a territorial gesture, framing its own territory, but also a performative practice of carving out new routes of thinking. Most important, Deleuze and Guattari emphasize the epistemological sparks emanating from creative interventions in the continual process of territorialization, deterritorialization and reterritorialization of assemblages.
Assemblages are everywhere: human beings, as centers of indetermination, are assemblages of images, as Deleuze makes clear when he assembles the brain with the screen, the world with film, as elements of a philosophy of time. Even virtual assemblages on digital networks (email, facebook, twitter) in our quotidian life can be regarded as assemblages. Assemblages are also practical and political as well as theoretical. In this light, to what extent can Deleuzes philosophical thinking assist us in canvassing various prospective assemblages, and what is the retrospective assemblage between us and Deleuze? Is it possible for us to theorize the new informatics sensibilia by formulating the dispositif of the horizontal/ rhizomatic assemblages? And apart from the superficial/superfluous assemblages, is it possible to build any vertical yet not arborescent assemblages?
Situating this concept in the contemporary world, we are seeking to form transdisciplinary assemblages in order to respond to and have dialogues with present predicaments. Possible topics for papers may include but are not limited to:
Is there a Deleuzian way of thinking about design?
How to think at design like a philosopher, and to think at philosophy like a designer.
Deleuze and Design is the first book to interrogate the theory and practice of design throughthe thought of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Beginning with an investigation of how the field ofdesign is currently mutating, this book suggests an open-ended definition of design reflectingdesign’s own entanglement with the practice of ‘making worlds’, thus to create futures. Taken as aforce, a disruption, and a process, design is here taken as the embodiment of possible worlds.
Whether products or scenarios, packaging or experiences, objects or digital platforms,services or territories, organizations or methodologies, design is here taken in its broadest sense asa profoundly innovative and disruptive force, constituted in the multiform entanglement of practices,discourses, industry agendas, lifestyles and behaviours, thus optimally positioned to offer a stringentcritique of how the emergence of complex relationships between human and non human agencieselicit affects, tells stories and ultimately make us think by doing.
To design means always to engage with what is not-yet but could be. To design means toengage with the new, the possible, the potential. Design is not however a mere matter of future-forecasting or problem-solving. Rather, it is about turning imagination into reality. Thus, the presentemerges as the embodiment of a thought. Design possesses an extraordinary quality: it is projectthat keeps on designing, it keeps on giving visible, tangible shape to the material world we inhabit.Every designed object contains in itself the seeds of future practices and future behaviours.
Can we investigate and reconceptualise design’s own prehension into the future withDeleuze’s theoretical corpus? What are the tensions between a creative philosophy intended as thepractice of creating new concepts and the practice, discourse and theory of design as the field notsimply of innovation but of the creation of the future?
Deleuze’s formidable thought can be taken on board by design, not as a fulminous theoreticalfad to be shortly outmoded, but as a slow releasing arsenal of tools to think with, and to inform, theprocess of thing-making. Ideas on the relations between the actual and the virtual, the becomingelse of matter and the affects elicited by the utterly relational kinship of bodies and objects, all canbenefit by a reconceptualization based on Deleuze’s philosophy.
In particular, Deleuze’s idea that philosophy is creative and revolutionary precisely because itis always creating new concepts deeply resonates with the demands and the agenda of design,always engaged with thinking about the not-yet. Even more pertinent to design is Deleuze’saffirmation that new concepts should be both necessary and unfamiliar, as well as being a responseto real problems.
If to design means always to engage with the making of the new, design then is a powerfulperspective on the future, a lens through which we can catch a glimpse of what is not-yet but might,could be. Indeed, for some design theorists we have a future only by design (Fry 2009). But design isnot only a reality-building, world-making project. It is also a vector intersecting a multiplicity of otherforces – political, economical, social, cultural, experiential, institutional – and as a force it participatesto the construction of the future. It is not the future in itself but participates to its creation; it is not anevent in itself but participates to its generation.
A (by no means) exhaustive list of possible topics:
Paper proposals may be submitted to
Betti Marenko b.marenko@csm.arts.ac.uk by March the 23rd.
Proposals should include CV, contact information, and a preliminary abstract of 300 words orless.
Full papers by August the 23rd
CALL FOR PAPERS
Aesthetics in the 21st Century
University of Basel September 13-15, 2012
Confirmed Speakers: Graham Harman, Iain Hamilton Grant, N. Katherine Hayles
CALL FOR PAPERS
2012 Kaifeng International Deleuze Conference
May 18, 2012–May 21, 2012
Henan University,
Kaifeng, Henan, China
Keynote Speakers
Anne Sauvagnargues (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre, France)
Ronald Bogue (University of Georgia, USA)
Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Brian Massumi (Université de Montréal)
Invited Speakers
Paul Patton (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Daniel W. Smith (Purdue University, USA)
Patricia Pisters (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Ian Buchanan (University of Wollongong, Australia)
Manola Antonioli (École Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Valenciennes, France)
Kim Sang-Hwan (Seoul National University, South Korea)
Chan-Woong Lee (Ewha Womans University, South Korea)
Timothy O’Leary (Hong Kong University)
Gao Jihai (Henan University, China)
Du Xiaozhen (Peking University, China)
Wang Minan (Beijing Foreign Languages University, China)
Jiang Yuhui (East China Normal University, China)
2012 Kaifeng International Deleuze Conference, hosted by College of Foreign Languages, Henan University, will be held in Kaifeng City, a famous ancient capital city of seven dynasties. We invite participation by Chinese and international scholars. This conference will provide an opportunity for Chinese and international scholars to exchange ideas around the work of Gilles Deleuze. Topics include:
We welcome individual abstracts as well as panel proposals from scholars both at home and abroad. An English version of the abstract is required for domestic scholars and scholars from other non-English speaking countries: it should be between 300 to 500 words. Keynote speeches (40-55 minutes) will be in English and Chinese with simultaneous translation. Those interested in participating in the conference should send a title, keywords and abstract to 2012kdic@gmail.com before October, 31, 2011. Those interested in proposing panel topics should send panel proposals to 2012kdic@gmail.com before October 31, 2011. Attendance at the conference will be limited so a selection will be made on the basis of abstracts submitted. Papers selected will be notified by December 1st 2011. The deadline for full conference papers (20-25 minutes) is March 15, 2012.
Conference fee: 150€, with half discount for MA and PhD candidates. Early birds will enjoy a 20% discount if paid before December 31, 2011. The conference fee will include meals, but not accommodation and other individual expenses. Excursions to Shaolin Temple will cost another 30€, and visits to Kaifeng City another 10€.
Conference Schedule:
Registration: May 18, 2012 (8 a.m.-8 p.m.);
Conference Sessions: May 19 until May 20 or 21 (depending on the number of participants), 2012;
Tours around Kaifeng City and excursions to Shaolin Temple will be available during the last two days.
Information on Shaolin Temple is available at:
http://www.travelchinaguide.com/attraction/henan/luoyang/songshan_shaolin.htm .
Accommodation: We have arranged for discounted offers at Zhongzhou International Jinming Hotel, which is within Jinming Campus of Henan University:
Standard room (two persons) costs 20€ each per night (including breakfast)
Small suite costs 50€ per night (including breakfast)
Luxurious suite costs 80€ per night (including breakfast)
The rooms will be arranged by Henan University.
The Board of Organizing Committee:
Chairman: Prof. Paul Patton (University of New South Wales, Australia);
Vice Chairmen: Prof. Chen Yongguo (Tsinghua Univerisity, China) and Prof. Gao Jihai (Henan University) ;
Executive Assistants: Dr. Yin Jing, Dr. Zhang Jinghui, (Henan University).
For further inquiries, please contact
Dr. Yin Jing,
College of Foreign Languages
Henan University
85 Minglun Street,
Kaifeng, Henan, 475001, P. R. China.
Email: 2012kdic@gmail.com (preferred)
For further information, please contact Yin Jing at: 2012kdic@gmail.com, or visit the conference website which will be available shortly.
College of Foreign Languages, Henan University
People’s Republic of China
July 18, 2011
