Another Politics, Another Subject

On Campus Accommodation Available

2009-03-16T12:10:00.001-07:00

On campus accommodation is available in Penbryn for £21.85 (single room with shared bathroom and breakfast included). The building is 2 minutes walk from the department of International Politics.

Reservations can be made via email: constaff@aber.ac.uk (University Conference Office).

Also a number of B&B's and hotels are available in town - they are all within walking distance (10 to 20 minutes) to Penglais Campus and the department. There is also a regular bus service from town to campus.

Conference Programme

2009-01-27T09:27:00.000-08:00

Provisional programme

Registration

2009-01-25T12:33:00.000-08:00

To register, please fill in this form and email it to: anotherpolitics09@gmail.com

Call for participation

2009-01-25T12:04:00.000-08:00

Politics in terms of self and other is the prevailing conception in the current order, where

the logic of alterity maintains the ever-present possibility of existential conflict. However,

recent engagements with Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques

Derrida, Michel Foucault,Jacques Lacan and Jean-Luc Nancy have drawn attention to

the prevalence and the importance of a new idea of politics emerging in their work.

In varied ways these thinkers all attempt to delineate a radically different kind of politics

that moves towards a conception of politics no longer based on the self-other relation.

Examples of this include Agamben’s notion of a community of whatever singularities,

Badiou’s generic extension of humanity, Deleuze’s plane of immanence, Derrida’s

politics of singularity, Foucault’s idea of concrete freedom and aesthetic of

self-fashioning, Lacan’s sinthomal naming and Nancy’s politics of the singular plural.

This conference will address in more detail what the exact implications of these

alternative notions of the subject are for thinking about politics, both by exploring

connections between philosophical concepts and by examining their relation to

various social and political practices.

Speakers

2009-01-25T12:01:00.000-08:00

Louise Amoore

Claudia Aradau

Martin Coward

Michael Dillon

Kimberly Hutchings

Stewart Motha

Rens Van Munster

Saul Newman

Aletta Norval

Sergei Prozorov

Michael J Shapiro

Veronique Voruz

Caroline Williams

2009-01-25T12:00:00.000-08:00