The Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture Student Alliance at

Binghamton University (S.U.N.Y.) Presents:



*The Revolution of Time and the Time of Revolution*

*A conference*



The 25th – 26th of March, 2011



Keynote Speaker:  Dr. Peter Gratton, Assistant Professor of Philosophy

University of San Diego, CA



What sense of time is produced through radical politics? Is the
understanding of time as future part of a radical imagination? If the
commitment to radical social change involves looking forward into the
future, will that leave us with a sense of futurity that depends on the
linearity of yesterday, today, and tomorrow?

To interrogate the emergence of radical creations and socialities, we
welcome submissions that theorize time as it relates broadly to politics,
cultural conflicts, alternative imaginaries, and resistant practices. Time
has historically been thought and inhabited through a variety of frameworks
and styles of being. At times the present repeats or seems to repeat the
past. There are actions that seem to take place outside of time, to be
infinite or instantaneous. Theories of emergence view time as folding in on
itself. Indigenous cosmologies and Buddhist philosophers put forward the
possibility of  no-time or of circular and cyclical time.* *

The radical question of time is one around which the work of many scholars
has revolved: Derrida on the to-come [*a-venir*] of democracy, Negri’s work
on *kairos*, Agamben on kairology, Santos on the expansive notion of the
present, Deleuze and Guattari on becoming. This heterological list is far
from exhaustive, while hinting at the depth of the theme that our conference
cultivates. A central political concern, time invokes our most careful
attention and the PIC conference provides the setting for this endeavor.  We
must find the time for time.

At its core, this conference seeks to explore the relationship between time
and revolution. Time here may mean *not just *simple clock and calendar time
but rather a way of seeing time as part of a material thread that can go
this way and that, weaving* *together* *the fabric of political projects
producing the world otherwise. Ultimately, the question of time fosters a
critical engagement with potentiality, potency, and power; as well as with
the virtual and the actual, of the to be and the always already.

We seek papers, projects, and performances that add to the knowledge of time
and revolution, but also ones that clear the way for new thinking, new
alliances, new beings.



Some possible topics might include:



   - Radical notions of futurity, historicity, or the expansive present.



   - Conceptions on the right moment of action.



   - The political reality of time as stasis or cyclical.



   - The colonial creation of universal time, and decolonial cosmologies of
   time.



   - Work on thinkers of time and revolution.



   - Work on potentiality, the virtual, and the actual.



   - Capital and labor time.



In keeping with the interdisciplinary emphasis of Binghamton University's
Program in Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture, we seek work that
flourishes in the conjunction of multiple frames of epistemological inquiry,
from fields including, but not limited to:  postcolonial studies, decolonial
studies, queer and gender studies, ethnic studies, media and visual culture
studies, urban studies, science and technology studies, critical theory,
critical animal studies, continental philosophy, and historiography.

Workers/writers/thinkers of all different disciplinary, inter-disciplinary,
and non-disciplinary stripes welcome, whether academically affiliated or
not.  Submissions may be textual, performative, visual.

Abstracts of 500 words maximum due by Feburary 1, 2011.  In a separate
paragraph state your name, address, telephone number, email and
organizational or institutional affiliation, if any.



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