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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 15:20:48 +0200



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> Subject: CFP: The Italian Effect
> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 13:55:55 +1200
> From: michael goddard <goddardmichael-AT-HOTMAIL.COM>
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> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> The Italian Effect: Radical Thought, Biopolitics and Cultural Subversion
> Sydney University, September 9-11, 2004
>
> Presented by: the Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences,
> University of Sydney, the Institute for International Studies, University of
> Technology, Sydney, the Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western
> Sydney and the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie
> University.
>
> Aims of the Conference
> After several decades during which the humanities in Australia and globally
> have been strongly influenced by French thought, in the new millennium the
> work of Italian thinkers is having a profound impact upon intellectual
> activity. The most notable signs of this “Italian effect” are the widespread
> interest in the work of Giorgio Agamben and the popularity of Antonio Negri
> and Michael Hardt’s Empire, but this is only to scratch the surface of the
> productivity of contemporary Italian thought across a wide variety of
> disciplines. This conference aims to address the current and potential
> international impact of radical Italian thought, focusing not only on Negri
> and Agamben but also on the work of Franco Berardi (Bifo), Paolo Virno,
> Maurizio Lazzarato and others. Presentations will be invited both on Italian
> thought and political practice itself and on the productivity of this
> thought in a global context. We invite papers on the following topics:
>
> ---The Concept of Biopolitics
> ---The Theory and Practice of Autonomia
> ---The Multitude, Refugees and Globalisation
> ---Empire, Postcolonialism and Postmodernity
> ---Negri’s Political Philosophy
> ---The Thought of Agamben
> ---The Media/Cultural Subversions of Berardi (Bifo)
> ---Radical Thought and Cultural Activism
> ---Autonomia, the Crises of Marxism and Anti-Capitalism
> ---Radical Italian Thought and Cultural Studies
> ---Italian and Global Media Subversion
> ---Italian Thought, “General Intellect” and Collective Literature (Luther
> Blisset)
> ---Radical Italian thought and (Italian) Cinema
> ---Immaterial Labour, the Infosphere and Biopolitical Production.
>
> Keynote Speaker
> Franco Berardi (Bifo)- Leading Italian “nomadic” cultural theorist and media
> activist whose media projects include Radio Alice and Telestrada.
>
> Presentations
> Presentations should be of no longer than twenty minutes and will be
> organised into panels based around the above topics. Abstracts should be
> sent by the 31st of May to:
> goddardmichael-AT-hotmail.com or timothy.rayner-AT-pgrad.arts.usyd.edu.au
> Participants will be invited to submit formal versions of their papers by
> September 30th for inclusion in a publication based on the conference.
>
> Registrations
> Registration payments should be made out to: Sydney University and sent to
> Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (RIHSS), Woolley
> Building A20, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, AUSTRALIA. The rates are
> as follows:
> Earlybird registration (received by 31/7/04):AUD $88 (Full)/AUD $66
> (Concession)
> Regular registration: AUD $110 (Full)/AUD $77 (Concession).
>
> Franco Berardi (Bifo) Biography
> Franco Berardi has been known as "Bifo" since he began to sign his abstract
> paintings at school with the name. He later became a left-wing anarchist,
> joining the group Potere operaio (Worker Power). In 1975 he founded the
> magazine "A/traverso", which became the paper of the Bologna creative
> movement. In '76 he was part of the editorial team of Radio Alice. The
> relationship between communication technology and social movements became
> central to his thinking and action. He became interested in new media
> developments and published the article " Tecnologie comunicative"
> (Communicative Technology), which forecast the explosion of TV channels as a
> decisive social and cultural phenomenon, in the magazine "Alfabeta". In
> 1989, he published the pamphlet Cyberpunk with the publisher Synergon. That
> was followed by "Piu' cyber che punk" (More Cyber than Punk), "Cancel",
> "Politiche della mutazione" (The Politics of Mutation) and "Mutazione e
> cyberpunk" (Mutation and Cyberpunk). In 1991 he wrote and acted in the film
> "Il Trasloco" (The Move) by Renato De Maria. In 1994 he organised, with the
> consortium Universita' Citta' di Bologna the international convention
> CIBERNAUTI, which was published in four volumes by Castelvecchi. He has
> published "Come si cura il nazi" (How to cure the Nazi), :Neuromagma", and
> "Exit, il nostro contributo all'estinzione della civilta" (Exit, our
> contribution to the extinction of civilisation). More recently he published
> a book on Felix Guattari “Felix” (2001) and most recently the book
> "Telestreet - Macchina immaginativa non omologata" on the experiment of
> Telestreet, a network of micro-channels spreading all over Italy against the
> media-dictatorship.
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