>
>From: Matthew Hart <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: CFP: Zones of Exception: Modernism and Sovereignty 
>(3/31/05; MSA, 10/3/05-10/6/05)
>
>MSA Conference Proposal
>
>"Zones of Exception: Modernism and Sovereignty"
>
>Modernist Studies Association 7th Annual Conference
>Chicago, 3-6 November 2005
>
>We have noticed increasing theoretical and cultural interest in the concept of
>sovereignty.  If as Carl Schmitt puts it in Political Theology, 
>’ÄúSovereign is he who
>decides on the exception,’Äù then we wish to ask if there are advantages to
>understanding cultural modernity as constituted by ’Äúzones of 
>exception.’Äù  By
>’Äúzones of exception’Äù we refer both to the general condition of modernity
>outlined by philosophers such as Giorgio Agamben and to a modern world
>organized by asymmetrical geographies of power.  How do literary modernists
>ranging from figures such as James Joyce and Ezra Pound to Aime Cesaire and
>Mina Loy configure the sovereignty of the autonomous subject over and against
>the national?  Do these relations change in late modern and postcolonial
>conjunctures? How in modernist culture is the normative defined by the
>exceptional?  Should sovereignty be thought as an abstract, philosophical
>concept or, rather, in terms of the material realities of borders and military
>bases? 
>
>We are especially interested in papers that discuss:
>
>- ’ÄòMinor’Äô cultures and the question of sovereignty
>- ’ÄúA poet is ordinarily an exception’Äù (Kierkegaard): aesthetics 
>as a zone of
>exception
>- The state of emergency
>- The death of Imperialism and the rise of ’ÄòEmpire’Äô
>- Sovereignty and theories of development
>-  Autonomy as sovereign and exception
>
>Please send 1-2 page abstracts as Microsoft Word attachments to
><[log in to unmask]> by 31 March, 2005.
>
>Professor Jim Hansen
>Professor Matt Hart
>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champiagn
>Matthew Hart
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>Assistant Professor of English,
>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
>208 English Building, MC-718
>608 S. Wright St.,
>Urbana, IL 61801
>T: (217) 333-4774
>F: (217) 333-4321
>
>

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