We are pleased to announce a conference on Deleuze and Guattari which will take place at Santral Istanbul (provided by Istanbul Bilgi University) between April 22-24, 2010 with confirmed plenary speakers: Constantin Boundas, Arkady Plotnitsky, Claire Colebrook, Gary Genosko, Mahmut Mutman.
Please find the CFP below (NB: application deadline September 1, 2009).
RESONANCE(S)
A Deleuze and Guattari Conference on Philosopy,Arts and Politics
The function of philosophy is to create concepts … Creating isn’t communicating butresisting … Creation takes place in choked passages. G. Deleuze
Resonance as a nomadic concept inthe philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari still throws light and shades to our understanding of the problematical relationship between philosophy, politics, psychoanalysis and arts on the one hand, and the spectacle or the specular onthe other. What kind of a concept is resonance? Can it be theorised or should it simply be left untheorised? What are its implications for the concept of aconcept? What are the conditions of its distribution in the work of Deleuze and Guattari? If philosophy can deviate the thought from the rule of the specular, as was attempted by the Situationists, “resonance” – as it appears basically in The Logic of Sense – is perhaps already offering a non-relational relationship between various pairs or binaries which, especially in recent history and in the history of philosophy have fettered thought to a sedentary regression. If the spectacle cannot be maintained as such unless under certain philosophical, historical, cultural and geographical conditions, what would be the role of resonance in opening up new paths towards deterritorialisations particularly under the light of an elusive concept of “resonance” on a plane ofcontinuous flight?
This conference is therefore aninvitation to philosophers, theorists and artists to reconsider the concept of resonance in the work of Deleuze and Guattari and also to see its implications for a renewal of various theories on sex, gender, identity, politics, history, literature, science, topology, religion, visual arts, music, sound, media and performance. Under what conditions does thought become specular and can thought be forced to a maddening resonance so as to drive the critique of specular towards,say, a “somnambulist” phase where the undecidable is what lies between one’s eyelids.
Such a reconsideration of“resonance” requires without doubt deterritorialisations of not only Deleuzeand Guattari’s, but also thought’s relation to the philosophies of Spinoza, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Tarde, Bergson and Freud. A scrutinisation of such relationships will not only reformulate the present theories but hopefully will put forward new ones.
Panel proposals, individual proposals and performance proposals are encouraged but not limited to following areas:
Un-gestalt
Détournament
Spectacle/Specular
Noise
Perversion
Madness, Schizo-analysis,Hysteria, Histrionics
Addiction, Altered states
Actual/Virtual
Immanence/Transcendental
Dialectics
Nomadology
Affect/Percept
Noumenon/Phenomenon
Time/Matter
Ressentiment
Macro/Micro Perceptions
Quantum
Becoming
Year Zero
Micro-politics
Minor literature
Send proposals (500 words) to: team.resonative@gmail.com
Conference website: www.resonative.net
(will be continuously updated,please check regularly)
Convener:
Zafer Aracagök
Dept of Graphic Design
Bilkent University
06800 Bilkent, Ankara – Turkey
Tel: +90 312 290 32 50
Committee:
Tugba Ayas, Fırat Berksun, Irem Cagil, Emre Koyuncu, P. Burcu Yalım