Affective Encounters: Philosophy, History, and Politics
22nd annual DePaul University Graduate Conference
March 13-14th, 2015, Chicago, IL
Keynote speaker: Jason Read, University of Southern Maine
Submission deadline: January 1st, 2015
The ‘Affective Turn’ of the 21st century has seen a return to critical thinking about affect, and its
relationships and applications within various philosophical domains. In taking up affect as a question, we are forced to engage with a number of interrelated concepts: forces and their relations, social organizations and their histories, bodies and their capacities, politics and nature. Affects involve encounters and interconnections that resist analytic separation; they are mediated by social and historical processes, revealing obliquely the connection between political and libidinal economies. Sometimes they encourage or even force us to reflect, critique, and affirm, while at other times they seem to foreclose the very possibility of thought. They texture the worlds in which we find ourselves involuntarily enmeshed: sometimes exhilarating, sometimes excruciating, affects testify to the richness and obscurity of the relations between ourselves and others.
Please view our full CFP, and list of possible topics/question at: http://depaulphilosophy.wordpress.com
Submissions should be approximately 3,000 words, prepared for blind review, and sent to depaul.philosophy@gmail.com