Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 14:48:19 -0400
From: Emrah Goker <eg577-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: AUT: Call for Papers: The Italian Effect - Radical Thought, Biopolitics


The Italian Effect: Radical Thought, Biopolitics and Cultural Subversion
9th - 11th September 2004, University of Sydney

Presented by: the Research Institute for the Humanities and Social
Sciences, the University of Sydney, the Institute for International
Studies, University of Technology, Sydney, the Centre for Cross-Cultural
Research, University of Western Sydney and the Centre for Social Inclusion,
Macquarie University.

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 are invited both
on Italian thought and political practice and on the productivity of this
thought in a global context.

Presentations should be of no longer than twenty minutes and will be
organised into panels based around 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.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31st May 2004.

Please send abstracts to either Michael Goddard <goddardmichael at
hotmail.com> or Timothy Rayner <timothy.rayner at arts.usyd.edu.au>.
Participants will be invited to submit formal versions of their papers by
September 30th 2004 for inclusion in a publication based on the conference.

Enquiries: Timothy Rayner <timothy.rayner at arts.usyd.edu.au>


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