Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 13:44:16 -0500 (EST) From: Spoon Collective <spoons-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU> Subject: SPOON-ANN: CFP: states of emergency [Spoon-Announcements is a moderated list for distributing info of wide enough interest without cross-posting. To unsub, send the message "unsubscribe spoon-announcements" to majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 20:30:06 -0800 From: gjcm <gjcm-AT-uclink.berkeley.edu> To: spoons-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Subject: cfp: states of emergency c a l l f o r p a p e r s : S T A T E S O F E M E R G E N C Y The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ^Óstate of emergency^Ô in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of history that is in keeping with this insight. Then we shall clearly realize that it is our task to bring about a real state of emergency. ^×Walter Benjamin, ^ÓTheses on the Philosophy of History Historians debate whether the first camps to appear were the campos de concentración created by the Spanish in Cuba in 1896 to suppress the popular insurrection of the colony, or the ^Óconcentration camps^Ô into which the English herded the Boers toward the start of the century. What matters here is that in both cases, a state of emergency linked to a colonial war is extended to an entire civil population. The camps are thus born not out of ordinary law but out of a state of exception . . . . the birth of the camp in our time appears as an event that decisively signals the political space of modernity itself. It is produced at the point at which the political system of the modern nation-state . . . enters into a lasting crisis. ^× Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer Has ^Óthe state of emergency^Ô become a norm in politics as argued by Benjamin & Agamben? Or does it remain an extra-legal ^Óstate of exception,^Ô and thus exceptional? What are the historical precedents^×if any^×for the present crisis? Is it constitutive of modernity itself? Does the state of emergency open space for radical left projects? Is the task to isolate and limit the emergency via progressive legalism, or to accelerate crisis as proposed by Benjamin? keywords: detention centers, enemy combatant, sovereignty, occupied territory, civil disobedience, anticolonial resistance, civil liberty, Guantanamo, habeus corpus, unilateralism, sabotage, crisis, executive power, insurgency/counterinsurgency, antistructure, subversion, Empire, terrorism & state terrorism CRITICAL SENSE, http://criticalsense.berkeley.edu, produced by an interdisciplinary group of graduate students and based in the Department of Political Science at the University of California-Berkeley, seeks graduate papers for a special issue entitled STATES OF EMERGENCY. Submissions may originate in any department or discipline and should represent high-quality, rigorous graduate scholarship. Submitted articles must not exceed 30 double-spaced pages (1-inch margins, 12-point type). Please include a short abstract of no longer than one page in length. Please send submissions, by 1 February 2004, as attachments in Word or rich text format to the following email address: criticalsense-AT-socrates.berkeley.edu Articles and essays (to be received on or before 1 February 2004) or other editorial correspondence may also be submitted to CRITICAL SENSE, Department of Political Science, 210 Barrows Hall, MC 1950, Berkeley, CA 94720-1950.
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