2011 AAG CFP: Immanent Materialisms in Geography: Marx, Deleuze, Spinoza and Space.
The last several years have witnessed an explosion of interest in Spinozan and Deleuzian theoretical perspectives in Geography. Yet sadly, there has sometimes been an opposition between these trajectories of thought and more conventional Marxian approaches. This session hopes to get beyond such dichotomizations through an explicit attention to Deleuzian and Spinozan Marxisms and the potentiality of these theoretical trajectories to reconcile and/or problematize over-easy generalizations of what counts as a revolutionary theory in geography. Specifically, we are interested in geographic work that engages with aleatory and immanent theorizations of Marxism. This theoretical trajectory draws on the work of scholars such as Deleuze and Guattari, Macherey, Agamben, Negri, Spinoza, and the late writings of Althusser in developing a revolutionary Marxist project realigned with the concepts, tools, and critiques of post-structuralism. Paper topics might engage with some of the following concepts and their relationship to radical geography, space, place, scale, and etc: Class and the capitalist socius Apparatuses of capture Machinic assemblages and real subsumption Constituent power and living labor Immaterial labor, the social factory, and the autonomy of the working class Multitude and the critique of militant particularisms Dialectics and Immanence Affect and politics Love and class hatred Affinity, conatus, cupiditas, and the development of revolutionary power Send questions and abstracts to: Nathan Clough, The University of Minnesota [email protected]
