Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 18:53:33 -0500 (EST)
Subject: SPOON-ANN: Call for Papers - "Unlocking Discipline from Disciplinarity" (fwd)


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Subject: Call for Papers - "Unlocking Discipline from Disciplinarity"

sannerk1-AT-tiger.uofs.edu (Kristin Sanner) sent the following
Spoon-Announcement:

"Unlocking Discipline from Disciplinarity" - Deadline: March 15, 2000

In the last thirty years, critical "theory" has repeatedly 
(de)constructed discourses by transversing social, political, 
and economic systemic lines across the landscape of cultural 
production.  While contemporary thinkers have gotten a lot of 
mileage out of these modes of critiquing discursive structures; 
we sense the impending realization of an aporia in the midst 
of this vital work.  It seems that several quesitons present 
themselves: Have we stopped thinking discipline as a series 
of discursive practices?  Can we still speak of discipline in 
a world of increasing "multiculturism" and mobilized capital?  
Is it possible to map a history of this shift, and if so, what 
impedes and distracts our critical attention?  One might 
consider addressing the failure to think the possibility of 
a radical disciplinarity offered to us by the work of Deleuze 
and Guattari.  For example, how might we reconsider discipline, 
in the strongest sense, in a world of machinic assemblages?  
Have we read Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus but failed 
to read Captialism and Schizophrenia?  How does the analysis of 
desire differ from a more conventional analysis of power?  
What falls to the wayside and what is over-invested in this 
fundamental shift?  Can we still speak of discipline once the 
engine of power-desire is running at full-throttle?  If so, 
what does discipline become after burning this particular rubber?

Possible article topics might include:

~~Prisons and carceral institutions
~~Academic freedom
~~A politics of seeing
~~"Classical" institutions
~~Sado-Masochism
~~Constructed bodies and flows of desire/power
~~What is an Audience?
~~Subjectivity and desire-power
Open Topic: Crossings also invites articles on any "counter-
disciplinary" subject (not necessarily fitting announced 
special topics), articles concerned with questions of literature,
philosophy, history, culture, and gender that originate from any 
historical period.  A general concern of Crossings is the theme 
of resistance and how university communities might influence 
sites of cultural production and the future of education in 
order to offer alternatives to apparatuses of hegemony and 
prohibitive modes of knowledge production--to think the stakes 
involved in offering such alternatives, and the politics 
pertaining to foundational critiques.

Submissions: Manuscripts should be submitted SASE and in duplicate 
(and if possible on an IBM compatible 3 1/2" disc, WordPerfect 
or Microsoft Word for Windows).  Please use Chicago Manual of 
Style Author/Date/Endnote citation format.  Manuscripts should 
be double-spaced, with endnotes, tables, charts, maps, etc., on 
separate pages.  Submit to: Crossings, Department of English, 
Binghamton University, Box 6000, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000.  
Send all inquiries to this address, or E-mail us at 
xings-AT-binghamton.edu.

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