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>From: "Shane Herron" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: CFP: Democracy and Violence (4/25/05; journal issue)
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>theory@buffalo 10
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>We are seeking submissions for the 2005 issue (#10) on the theme of
>Democracy and Violence.
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>CALL FOR PAPERS
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>At the end of his life, Walter Benjamin wrote, "There is no document of
>civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism." We
>suspect that violence is not only a problem for democracy, but is, in
>fact, the very thing that makes democracy a viable political system.
>Difficulties arise for the democratic when it tries to deal this
>inherent violence. Irruptions of violence within democratic societies
>are, of course, far from unknown; imperial wars are waged to spread
>democracy; terror is produced at the limit-and as the limit-of the
>demands that democracy can represent. The supposed universality of
>democracy is perhaps its most characteristic and also its most violent
>feature.
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>We welcome all papers that try to articulate the relationship between
>democracy and violence in terms of literature, art, film, and theory.
>Possible topics might include: the limits of universality in human
>rights, equality, and freedom; the limits of representation in
>democratic art and politics and the violence that appears to mark these
>limits; the possibility of a new democracy (reflections on the event,
>revolution and all manner of communities-to-come, and the place of
>violence in these); the (non-violent) mythical origins of democracy; the
>sublimity of democracy; how art and aesthetics engages with democracy
>and its violence; the (dis)function of art in democracy; democracy and
>death; the limits of democracy itself. We will gladly accept any other
>papers on related topics which take up the issue of democracy and
>violence, and their various representations.
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>For this issue, we are honored to announce that Professor Werner
>Hamacher of the Goethe-Universit=E4t will write the introduction and
>also publish an article on Democracy.
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>Submissions are welcome from any disciplinary field-including social
>theory, literary studies, political theory, philosophy, cultural
>studies, media studies, etc.
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>theory@buffalo also accepts book reviews. Book reviews do not have to be
>on the topic of Democracy and Violence and should be 1,200 words
>maximum.
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>Submissions should be 10,000 words maximum. Please send two blind copies
>with a cover page, on paper or a disk to  the address below. Or send an
>e-version of the paper as an attachment in Microsoft Word to
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>Send queries to:
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>          Sol Pelaez ([log in to unmask])
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>          Shane Herron ([log in to unmask])
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>          Re: theory@buffalo 10
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>          Department of Comparative Literature
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>          638 Clemens Hall
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>          University at Buffalo
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>          Buffalo, New York
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>          14260, USA
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>Please see our website (http://wings.buffalo.edu/theory/) for full
>information, updates, and submission guidelines.
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>Deadline for Submissions: April 25 th, 2005.
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