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Call for Papers Theme: War Machine, Conflict, Coexistence Type: 7th International Conference on Deleuze / Guattari Studies in Asia Institution: University of Tokyo Location: Tokyo (Japan) Date: 21.–23.6.2019 Deadline: 31.12.2018 __________________________________________________ The theme for the conference is ‘War Machine, Conflict, Coexistence’. Why? Because we live in a world where the concept ‘war machine’ has now become so miserably commonplace and anodyne. The cooptation and recuperation of the concept by the naysayers of reason threaten to deradicalize Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy. How? In two respects: 1) the contemporary globalized form of capitalism has overwhelmed national economies and; 2) terrorism has replaced traditional forms of state-war. As such, conflicts are pervasive on a global scale yet often elude traditional social, political and economic schematics. In the play of perceptible and imperceptible, how should or can we coexist in such a world? What does it mean to think the world and coexistence within it. Are we without a world? Are we embroiled within toxic relations of an unworld. How does the work of Deleuze and Guattari assist this new relation? The conference aims to answer this question. Yet one problem arises. As the idea of coexistence is not explicitly explored in their philosophy, how can we respond to this conspicuous lacuna? Given this bottleneck of reason, it is exceedingly timely to think contemporary geo-political problems and ideas from the perspective of Deleuze and/or Guattari. Our task is to begin thinking again; to shed a dogmatic image of thought and to inspire a new comportment to the world. Given this crisis and amid such devastating conflict, we are asking conference delegates to think about the concept of coexistence in a specifically Deleuzian and Guattarian way. We are in search for nothing less than a new paradigm or image of thought. Themes for the include: Themes: Asia Assemblage Becoming Bodies-without-Organs Capitalism Cinema Coexistence Conflict Creation Democracy Ecology Education Ethics Fascism Greek Philosophy Human Nature Japan Language Lines of Flight Literature Media Music Neoliberalism New Materialism Object-Oriented Ontology Philosophy Politics Psychiatry Psychoanalysis Psychology Quantum Theory Religion Rhizomes State Speculative Realism Time War World Order and X. Keynote speakers - Ian Buchanan (Professor, University of Wollongong) - Anne Sauvagnargues (Professor, Université de Paris 10 Nanterre) - Gregory Flaxman (Associate Professor, University of North Carolina) - Alfonso Lingis (Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University) - Alexander Galloway (Associate professor, New York University) - Felicity Colman (Professor, Kingston University) Please submit your abstract of between 150-200 words by the 31st Dec 2018 to the following mail address: [email protected] Please also include your brief biographical and institutional details of 100 - 200 words. Conference website: https://www.deleuze.jp __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ __________________________________________________
