[artinfo] CFP: Ontological Anarché: Beyond Materialism and Idealism

[Arpad Bak]

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--- On Sun, 5/13/12, Duane Rousselle <Duane.Rousselle at UNB.CA> wrote:

From: Duane Rousselle <Duane.Rousselle at UNB.CA>
Subject: [ACS] CFP: Ontological Anarché: Beyond Materialism and Idealism
To: ACS at uta.fi
Date: Sunday, May 13, 2012, 7:20 AM


  

    
  
  
    CFP:
      Ontological Anarché: Beyond Materialism and Idealism

    A
      Special Issue of Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies

    Edited
      by Jason Adams and Duane Rousselle

    www.anarchist-developments.org

    

    Radical
      theory has always been beset by the question of ontology,

    albeit
      to varying degrees and under differing conditions. In recent

    years,
      in particular, political metaphysics has returned with force:

    the
      rise of Deleuze-influenced “new materalism”, along with post-/non-

    Deleuzean
      speculative realism and object-oriented ontology, all bear

    testament
      to this. In this same period, anarchism has returned as a

    major
      influence on social movements and critical scholarship alike.

    What
      then, are some of the potential resonances between these

    currents,
      particularly given that anarchism has so often been

    understood/misunderstood
      as a fundamentally idealist philosophy?

    

    Is it
      the case, as Marx famously held in The German Ideology and The

    Poverty
      of Philosophy, that anarchism fails to account for the full

    complexity
      of the ontological? Is there a lack of concern for

    instance,
      with the actual circumstances that would make social

    transformation
      possible? Is anarchism a theory for which materiality

    is
      “distorted in the imagination of the egoist”, inevitably producing

    a
      subject “for whom everything occurs in the imagination?” Should

    “Sancho”
      (Max Stirner), for instance, have “descended from the realm

    of
      speculation into the realm of reality”?

    

    Or is
      the opposition of materialism and idealism itself a barrier to a

    higher,
      more powerful convergence, as recent anarchist/anarchistic

    thinkers
      from Hakim Bey to Reiner Schürmann have argued? This special

    issue
      of Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies considers these

    questions
      in dialogue with new materialism, speculative realism and

    object-oriented
      ontology, in order to seek new points of departure. We

    are
      interested in papers that open up a space for these and other

    questions
      to be pursued.

    

    Papers
      need not be tied to any particular tradition of thought (i.e.,

    post-anarchism,
      speculative realism, or the anarchist tradition). We

    welcome
      creative, speculative, provocative, and risky para-academic

    research.
      If your current research relates to these topics, we

    encourage
      you to submit a proposal or a paper. We also welcome multi-

    media
      contributions.

    

    Articles
      may be of varying length, submitted to Jason Adams:

    jason.adams at williams.edu, cc to Duane.Rousselle at egs.edu

    

    The
      deadline for final submission is October 1st, 2012.

    

    Anarchist
      Developments in Cultural Studies is an open-access journal.

    Paperback
      copies of Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies are

    available
      from Little Black Cart (www.littleblackcart.com) and Punctum

    Books (www.punctumbooks.com).

    

    Please
      Forward Widely!
  


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