Call for Papers

Mar 2, Deadline: 28 Mar 2010.

Un-titled.

Affirming Negations – Negating Affirmations

We are currently soliciting contributions for the conference “Un-titled: Affirming Negations – Negating Affirmations” to be held from July 1-3, 2010.

Our inquiry starts from a classical concern regarding non-being: how can we speak of non-being if to speak at all implies saying “some thing”? This difficulty raises the broader question of the nature of negation as a rhetorical, logical and political act. Negation is not independent from affirmation, since negation always involves a thing which is negated. But the priority of affirmation can itself be called into question by asking whether every affirmation might only be achieved by negating other properties. The conference will investigate the complex interrelations between affirmations and negations within the frame of the core project, Tension/Spannung. 

Further information and the complete call for papers can be found at negation.ici-berlin.org . Please send an abstract to negation(at)ici-berlin.org by March 28.