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Subject: Fwd: CALL FOR PAPERS - Conference on Philosophy and Film
Lisbon 2014
International Lisbon Conference on Philosophy and Film:Thinking reality
and time through
filmhttps://sites.google.com/site/philosophyandfilmlisbon2014B
7-10 May of 2014Organized by CFUL - Centro de Filosofia da Universidade
de Lisboa(www.centrodefilosofia.com)Hosted by Faculty of Letters and
GoetheInstitut LisbonB CALL FOR PAPERS 2013
The deadline for abstract submission isB 31stB October, 2013
During the last two decades film has been increasingly recognized as a
medium of philosophical reflection, in an ontological and
epistemological perspective. But what does it mean to understand film
as philosophizing? Can we access specific, reliable knowledge of the
world and our relation to it through the aesthetic form of moving
images? Considering filmbs claim of continuity with the world - what is
the essence of film and what is exactly its connection with
reality?Usually time and space are considered the essential
constituents of film b yet they are as well our ontic and ontological
condition to understand reality. In this context classical film theory
and its philosophical development (Kracauer, Benjamin, Bazin, Cavell,
and Deleuze) are reassessed with transcendental and speculative
questions. Benjamin, for example, has pointed out how through the
invention of film reality has lost its status of uniqueness and
authenticity. What are the consequences of the implicit assertion to
face the world as a contingent possibility out of many? And what about
the bMyth of total cinemab evoked by Bazin b the perfect artistic
creation of a virtual world that conflates with reality? Space-time is
the way, how we structure the world and orient ourselves in it.
Different philosophers have been dealing with theB aporiaB of time and
approached its apparent negativity in distinct ways. For all of them
the question about time implies a question about space and being, or,
in other words, requires a reflection on the relation of motion and
matter.
Film also evokes the phantasmagorical presence of something, which is
absent, an immaterial after-death reality. In this sense, Barthes
defined the photographed moment as an anticipation of the instant of
the death of the objects and subjects depicted. The film negative is
assembled out of 24 static frames per secondbapplied to Barthesb theory
that would be 24 instances of death. The immediate succession of the
next frame creates than an apparent continuity. We can therefore only
indirectly assist a stepping-beyond of natural time into death, at each
frame. The disclosure of death in film is obscured by moving the
images, creating an illusion of life. Bergson understood the
illusionary mechanism of film as a paradox metaphor for the usual
relation of mind and reality: that which is moving is made graspable
through its opposite. For Heidegger the continuity of time is bound by
the nexus of life (Lebenszusammenhang) given byB Dasein. Connecting life
and film, Deleuze raised the question of the world literally to be
film, similar to Pasolini who claimed life as cinema in nature.
IsB being-in-the-worldB aB being-in-film?Another line of enquiry could be
designated as the fascination with the reality effect, opening up a
threefold domain: the bhypperrealb vertigo pursued by technical
constructions of the filmic realm and of spectatorship, such as 3D
movies, digital camera and computer-generated images; the Lacanian
distinction between reality and the Real, instrumental in E=iE>ekbs
theorizing of film; the paradoxical technical construction of a kind of
image corresponding to a seeming natural perception in some brealisticb
cinema such as the works of the Portuguese filmmakers JoC#o Canijo or
Pedro Costa, among others.
Within the growing canon of the attempts to relate film and philosophy,
we therefore invite to reflect on reality and time by asking for the
ontology and essence of film. In this context the double-questions of
time and space, motion and matter, life and death, finitude and
infinity, multitude and authenticity are proposed to be the centre of
the conference themes.B The following list of topics intends to be
suggestive, and by no means exhaustive:- Film and time- Ontology of the
moving image- Metaphysical filmworlds- Limits of film: Infinity, death,
nothing and reality- Speculative realism and film- Accessing the Real
through film- Filmmakers of the time-image- Effects of reality: Realism
and filmB GENERAL INFORMATIONThe proposal submission for a 20 minutes
speaking time must have between 300 to 400 words and contain the Title
of the paper, author(s), affiliation and email, abstract and 4 to 6
keywords. Please also attach a brief note on you CV (150 words max.)
The conference main working language is English, but we admit French or
German proposals in exceptional cases.Please submit your proposals
toB [email protected] by 31stB October, 2013.
Conference Registration fees:B 120 Euros (MA and PhD Students) and 150
Euros (Regular) open until 31stB March, 2014 (from November 2013 on).
The bank account is TBA.Authors of some selected papers will be invited
after the Conference to participate in a book to be published byB CFUL,
together with the keynote speakers.B More information will be given
during the conference.
Confirmed keynotes speakers up to date:NoC+l Carroll (City University
New York), James Conant (University of Chicago), Carlos JoC#o Correia
(Universidade de Lisboa), Colin McGinn (University of Miami), Joseph
FrC<chtl (Universiteit vanB Amsterdam), Markus Gabriel (UniversitC$t
Bonn),B JosC) Manuel Martins (University of Evora), Robert Pippin
(University of Chicago), ZbigB RybczyEski (WrocEaw Visual Technology
Studios),B Christine ReehB (Universidade de Lisboa),B Mirjam Schaub (Freie
UniversitC$t Berlin), Peter Sloterdijk (Hochschule fC<r Gestaltung
Karlsruhe), Peter Weibel (Zentrum fC<r Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe)B and
AndrC) Ujica (Hochschule fC<r Gestaltung Karlsruhe).B The Conference
Directors:
JosC) Manuel Martins and Christine ReehThe Organizing Committee:
Filipa Afonso, Isabel Machado, Claudio Rozzoni, Teresa Teixeira, and
Susana Viegas.
For general enquiries please contact:[email protected] visit
the Conferencebs
website:https://sites.google.com/site/philosophyandfilmlisbon2014
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Susana Viegas
Universidade Nova de LisboaInstituto de Filosofia da Linguagem
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