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American Philosophical Association (APA), Eastern Division

New York City, NY

Monday, December 28, 2008

11:15 a.m. – 1:15 p.m., Group Session GIII-8

Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française (SAPLF)

Topic: Recent French Feminism(s)

Chair: Pleshette DeArmitt (University of Memphis)

Brigitte Weltman-Aron (University of Florida): “La ‹‹D. S.››: Sexual Difference in the Work of Hélène Cixous.”

Mary Beth Mader (University of Memphis): “Geneviève Fraisse and the Politics of Consent.”

Kelly Oliver (Vanderbilt University): “Kristeva on Freedom, Choice and Maternity”

The University of Texas at San Antonio Department of Philosophy & Classics announces a workshop on the thought of Simon Critchley
who will be the Brackenridge Distinguished Visiting Professor. The workshop will take place on Monday February 22nd and Tuesday February 23rd 2010. Please click here for more details.

Globalized Capital: Subjects, Spaces, and Critical Responses

April 10th & 11th, 2010

Keynote Speaker: Bruno Bosteels

Department of Romance Studies, Cornell University

Questioning capitalism is no easy enterprise. Discourses interrogating capitalism have mirrored the trajectory of capitalism itself, proliferating in a variety of directions and spawning new conceptual and historical problems with each new decade of confrontation. This conference aims to open up a space of convergence and dialogue for disparate trajectories of critical reflection and practical response. Its title aims to emphasize not only capitalism’s global character—its relentless expansion beyond various geographical, cultural, and political “limits”—but at the same time its particularized and often discontinuous local effects—the subjects, practices, and increasingly micro-managed spaces it carves out en route.

We would like to solicit papers dealing with a broad range of topics including, but not limited to:

Legacies and Boundaries of Expansion: Inside, outside, and beyond the capitalist Nation-State. Alterity, subalternity, and critiques from the margins. Postcolonialism, decolonization, and anti-colonial resistance. The metropolis and the collapse of the city/countryside dialectic. Historical and conceptual origins of capitalist economic thought.

Collectivities and Communes in Resistance: Communism. From parties to groups, from crowds to constituent power. Capitalism and Internationalism. Partisanship and/or universalism. Spaces of work and labors of thought: “immaterial labor”, intellectual culture, and the marketplace of ideas.
Subjects, Selfhood and Culture: Entrepreneurialist cultures of selfhood. Consumerist ethics and the conscience market. Neo-archaisms: the role of tradition and faith under capitalism. Counter-conducts, indocility, and strategies for “de-individualizing” and “decapitalizing” the self.
Images, Representations, and Symbols: Ideology and ‘ideology critique’. Narratives and mythologies of capitalism in cinema, art, architecture, and literature. The semiotics of capital.

Power and Neoliberal Governmentality: Biopower and biopolitical economy. Marxist critique in a paradigm of perpetual crisis management. “Total Governance”: from managerial rationalities to the management of life itself. Counter-insurgency, preventative war, and the securitization of liberty.

Submission Deadline: January 15, 2009

Call for Papers
17th Annual DePaul University
Philosophy Graduate Student Conference

GLOBALIZED CAPITAL: SUBJECTS, SPACES, AND CRITICAL RESPONSES
April 10th & 11th, 2010

Keynote Speaker: Bruno Bosteels
Department of Romance Studies, Cornell University

Questioning capitalism is no easy enterprise. Discourses interrogating capitalism have mirrored the trajectory of capitalism itself, proliferating in a variety of directions and spawning new conceptual and historical problems with each new decade of confrontation. This conference aims to open up a space of convergence and dialogue for disparate trajectories of critical reflection and practical response. Its title aims to emphasize not only capitalism’s global character-its relentless expansion beyond various geographical, cultural, and political “limits”-but at the same time its particularized and often discontinuous local effects-the subjects, practices, and increasingly micro-managed spaces it carves out en route.
We would like to solicit papers dealing with a broad range of topics including, but not limited to:
Legacies and Boundaries of Expansion: Inside, outside, and beyond the capitalist Nation-State. Alterity, subalternity, and critiques from the margins. Postcolonialism, decolonization, and anti-colonial resistance. The metropolis and the collapse of the city/countryside dialectic. Historical and conceptual origins of capitalist economic thought.

Collectivities and Communes in Resistance: Communism. From parties to groups, from crowds to constituent power. Capitalism and Internationalism. Partisanship and/or universalism. Spaces of work and labors of thought: “immaterial labor”, intellectual culture, and the marketplace of ideas.

Subjects, Selfhood and Culture: Entrepreneurialist cultures of selfhood. Consumerist ethics and the conscience market. Neo-archaisms: the role of tradition and faith under capitalism. Counter-conducts, indocility, and strategies for “de-individualizing” and “decapitalizing” the self.

Images, Representations, and Symbols: Ideology and ‘ideology critique’. Narratives and mythologies of capitalism in cinema, art, architecture, and literature. The semiotics of capital.

Power and Neoliberal Governmentality: Biopower and biopolitical economy. Marxist critique in a paradigm of perpetual crisis management. “Total Governance”: from managerial rationalities to the management of life itself. Counter-insurgency, preventative war, and the securitization of liberty.
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2009

Authors should email their submissions to depaulgraduatestudents@gmail.com. Papers should not exceed 3000 words and should contain a short abstract. As all papers are subject to anonymous review, papers should not include your name or any other identifying marks. Your paper title and personal information (name, institutional affiliation, and phone contact) should be included in the body of the email.
For further information and updates on the conference, if you have any questions or problems regarding submissions, or in the event that you do not receive a confirmation email, please contact Neal Miller at zzerohourr@gmail.com

Review of Friedrich Nietzsche, Writings from the Early Notebooks

This is the tenth volume by Nietzsche in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy series, giving him the most books in the series (followed by Kant with seven volumes). Like all the other Nietzsche volumes, Writings from the Early Notebooks contains an Introduction followed by suggestions for further reading, together with bibliographical notes on the texts and notes on the translation. The texts are presented in a new translation. Added to them is an impressive number of very informative footnotes that provide the biographical, historical and intellectual background without which a lot of the material would be barely comprehensible. All these features make this volume, like many others in the series, very helpful for both students and researchers.

via Friedrich Nietzsche, Raymond Geuss (ed.), Alexander Nehamas (ed.) – Writings from the Early Notebooks – Reviewed by Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Humboldt Universität – Philosophical Reviews – University of Notre Dame.