Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 09:34:29 -0600
From: duffett-AT-mail.utexas.edu (Landis Duffett)
Subject: HAB: Re: 


>                                Call For Papers
>
>patheticism - 18 & 19 Aug 1995
>
>        A conference to be held at Trinity College Dublin seeks
>participants from various disciplines to theorize the irony-free zone as a
>necessary consequence of the attenuation of the autonomous subject.
>
>patheticism
>*attempts to synthesize disparate accounts of pathos and the pathetic.
>*indicates a desire to move beyond the bounds of irony via an unapologetic
>occupancy of a position which is from the outset acknowledged to be
>untenable.
>*is the  post-camp valorization of mediocrity and self-deprecation,
>the slacker ethos of paralysis, the democracy of failure,  and any other
>excesses of hyper-individual introspection (from any era).
>
>Possible topics:
>the Greek concept of pathos, the Quixotic novel, pathetic narrators
>(Sterne, Dostoevsky, Nabokov), pathetic characters (Bartleby, Svejk,
>Murphy), the pathetic as anti-sublime, indie rock and/or fanzine culture,
>pathetic fallacies, melancholia, the revenge of the object, the abject
>pathetic, impoverished or residual artworks (Annette Messager, Mike Kelley,
> Joseph Beuys),  Morrissey,  Hamlet complexes, straight queers, etc.

Um, this is a joke, right?

KICKING KNOWLEDGE AT THE 7-11,

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