Spaces of Control: Confronting Austerity and Repression
Stony Brook University, NY
November 6th-9th, 2014
Capitalism’s most recent crisis and the austerity measures imposed in its wake have resulted in unprecedented levels of inequity, dispossession, and suffering. Political dissent and democratic opposition are quelled by the employment of new and increasingly punitive measures of control. The spaces of such control are the subject matter of our conference. We envision such spaces as covert and overt, as conducting operations of confinement and detention, expulsion and displacement, as virtual and physical, carried out through police and military, through individuals and the state, publicly and privately. The exploration of such spaces may allow us to engage, resist, disrupt, and modify the practices that create them. We examine such spaces in order to see through them and move beyond them.
We invite submissions of talks, papers, workshops, roundtables discussions, posters and other kinds of conference contributions.
In the spirit of collaboration, and in the recognition that radical philosophy is often done outside traditional philosophical settings, we invite submissions not only from philosophers inside and outside the academy, but also from those who engage in theoretical work in other academic disciplines – such as ethnic studies, women’s studies, social sciences, and literary studies – and from those engaged in theoretical work unconnected to the academy.
We especially welcome contributions from those often excluded from or marginalized in philosophy, including people of color, glbt persons, persons with disabilities, poor and working class persons.