Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (AAU) Association for Philosophy and Literature (APL) & Theory, Culture, and Society (TCS)
29 May – 2
June 2019: AAU Campus Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria
Confirmed
speakers include Achille Mbembe, Rosi Braidotti, Stuart Elden, Jeff Malpas,
Sarah Nuttall and Bernard Stiegler.
Can
anything further be said about truth? While contemporary worries about a
post-truth world reinforce both ordinary and traditional senses of the word, a
philosophical tradition that for centuries has not failed to put truth into
question or critique finds itself in a situation echoing that faced by the
Greeks at the dawn of philosophy.
Few would
have dreamt, only a few years ago, that we would once again have such a
compelling concern with the facts, with truth. But today’s authoritarian
populism has returned us to questions of the fragility of truth. These
questions have cast deep divisions in contemporary life. Tensions between truth
and falsity, between the fictional and the fictitious, and between reality and
illusion haunt contemporary experience. Social and cultural thought have for a
long period questioned assumptions of ‘objective’ experience, but such
assumptions continue to predominate in the homo economicus of today’s
neoclassicism and neoliberalism. As prevalent is the fragmentation into worlds,
subjective worlds, national worlds, the worlds of human and nonhuman beings.
Such worlds are at the same time territories, digital platforms, communities,
indeed in some cases commons. To what extent are such worlds themselves
constituted through truths or fictions, through narratives? To what extent does
this mean a break with representation altogether, whether in art, in
literature, in politics? Or to what extent does it entail a radical rethinking
of what representation is?
Tracing a
line of thought from Nietzsche to Deleuze and beyond, one discovers in the
objection to a pervasive “will to truth” the demand that thought be regarded
instead as a form of creation. The oppositions through which truth has
traditionally been understood (true and false, truth and error) do not apply,
for instance, when one considers the literary text, where the question of
whether there exists a natural or necessary correspondence with the world event
remains a matter of conjecture.
We invite
proposals for papers and for panels addressing some aspect of the conference
theme, “Truth Fiction Illusion: Worlds and Experience.” Proposals may address
any one of the given terms or explore those terms in their possible
interrelatedness – with respect to philosophy, literature, theory, music,
media, geography, film, culture, art, architecture, etc.
Please send
both paper proposals and panel proposals to info@philosophyliterature.com
Deadline:
15th January 2019
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