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Slavoj Zizek
Hollywood Today: Report from an Ideological Frontline

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Les non-dupes errent
So when even products of the allegedly “liberal” Hollywood display the most blatant ideological regression, are any further proofs needed that ideology is alive and kicking in our post-ideological world? Consequently, it shouldn’t surprise us to discover ideology at its purest in what may appear as Hollywood at its most innocent: the big blockbuster cartoons. “The truth has the structure of a fiction” – is there a better exemplification of this thesis than cartoons in which the truth about the existing social order is rendered in such a direct way which would never be allowed in the narrative cinema with “real” actors?

Jacques Rancière: in Disagreement
Paul Bowman; Richard Stamp

Conjunctive Times, Disjointed Time: Philosophy between Enigma and Disagreement
Sudeep Dasgupta

Politics without Politics
Jodi Dean

Politics after Aesthetics: Disagreeing with Rancière
David Ferris

Heteroreductives – Rancière’s disagreement with ontology
Bram Ieven

Which Equality? Badiou and Rancière in Light of Ludwig Feuerbach
Nina Power

JR cinéphile, or the philosopher who loved things
Adrian Rifkin

‘A literary animal’: Rancière, Derrida, and the Literature of Democracy
Mark Robson

When Does Politics Happen?
Paulina Tambakaki

A few remarks on the method of Jacques Rancière
Jacques Rancière

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Alain Badiou, translated by Alex Ling and Aurélien Mondon

The Desert Island and the Missing People
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Pierre Macherey, translated by Robin Mackay

68 + 1: Lacan’s année érotique
Jean-Michel Rabaté

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Hegel and the Impossibility of the Future in Science Fiction Cinema (16-37)
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Godfathers and Sons: Tripping Over the Unconscious (38-52)
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Consumer Ethics in Thank You For Smoking (53-67)
Stacy Thompson

Meanings and authorships in Dune (68-89)
Tony Todd

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Scott Durham – “The Center of the World Everywhere”: Bamako and the Scene of the Political

Rosalind Galt – The Obviousness of Cinema

Sandra Gibson + Luis Recoder – Cinema/Film

Christian Keathley – Otto Preminger and the Surface of Cinema

David Farrell Krell – The School for Stupefaction

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Angelo Restivo – The Obvious: Three Reminiscences

Stephen G. Rhodes – Interregnum Reanimated: The Living Cemetery

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Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, 24th-25th of April 2009

Keynote Speakers: Dr Martine Beugnet, Edinburgh University, Professor Martin Barker, University of Aberystwyth

In recent years, the term ‘new extremism’ has been used to describe (and often to decry) a growing body of films featuring extreme and graphic representations of sexuality and violence, seemingly designed with the chief aim in mind of shocking or provoking spectators. The list of filmmakers frequently assembled under this rubric is quite diverse, but often includes Catherine Breillat, Gaspar Noé, Michael Haneke, Bruno Dumont, Fatih Akin, Claire Denis, Philippe Grandrieux, Lukas Moodysson, Marina de Van, François Ozon and Lars Von Trier, to name a few.

Although the films of the new extremism have been decried as reactionary and ostentatious, the recent upsurge of rigorous scholarly attention devoted to this body of work challenges reductive assertions, and confirms the relevance of such provocative and polemical filmmaking. Beyond mere shock tactics, what do these brutal and uncompromising films bring to understandings of cinema today? How do these films solicit, and help to shape, new modes of spectatorship and new ways of relating to cinema?

The aim of this conference is to explore and theorize the paradigm of the new extremism in contemporary European cinema. What new challenges do these filmmakers bring to our understanding of issues of embodiment and intimacy, violation and volition? How do such uncompromising images respond to, or seek to intervene into a set of socio-political and economic realities? In what ways do these films move beyond binaries of passivity and activity, voyeurism and masochism?

With these and other relevant questions in mind, we invite papers that critically examine the ‘new extremism’ in contemporary European cinema. Possible topics may also include (but are by no means restricted to) the following:

Issues of spectatorship – The ethics of extremism and the ‘ethical turn’ in critical and cultural theory

Feminist and psychoanalytic approaches

Questions of trauma (psychological, corporeal, national, historical)

Debates about cinematic realism, materiality and the Real

Theories of sensation and affect

New approaches to sexuality and violence

Temporal/spatial formations in the new extremism

Issues of political agency and social exclusion

Influences on the new extremism: mainstream and avant-garde traditions

Reception studies

Questions of authorship

Proposals (up to 500 word abstracts) should be sent by November 21st, 2008 to:
Tanya Horeck (Tanya.Horeck@anglia.ac.uk)

Tina Kendall (Tina.Kendall@anglia.ac.uk)

Sarah Barrow (Sarah.Barrow@anglia.ac.uk)

The Narration of Collective Trauma: The “True Story” of Jasper, Texas — Kalina Brabeck and Ricardo Ainslie

“Two Brotherless Peoples”: On the Constitutive Traumas of Class Struggle — Akis Gavriilidis

Psychotherapy and Political Activism: Examining The Israeli–palestinian Case — Nissim Avissar

Other Pasts: Family Romances of Pan’s Labyrinth — Janet Thormann

The Notion of the Work of Culture in Freud’s Writings — Eric Smadja

Violence and Embodiment — JAMES MENSCH

Personnage, pensée, perception: Entre figure esthétique et personnage conceptuel, oscille le personnage du cinéma — CAROLINE SAN MARTIN

The Sublimity of Violence: Kant and the Aesthetic Response to the French Revolution –RADU NECULAU

Qu’est-ce qu’un dispositif? L’analytique sociale de Michel Foucault — SVERRE RAFFNSØE

Deleuze’s Other-Structure: Beyond the Master-Slave Dialectic, but at What Cost? — JACK REYNOLDS

Le commun et le capital: Réflexions sur le récit thérapeutique d’Antonio Negri — DALIE GIROUX

Erfahren and Erleben: Metaphysical Experience and its Overcoming in Heidegger’s Beiträge — JIM VERNON

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