CFPs by Corin Braga
Conférence internationale:
L’espace planétaire.
Les humanités au carrefour du local et du post-g... more Conférence internationale:
L’espace planétaire.
Les humanités au carrefour du local et du post-global
Les 17, 18 et 19 octobre 2019 à l’Université Babes-Bolyai de Cluj-Napoca, Roumanie
Une collaboration entre le Centre Phantasma
et le Centre des Études Culturelles et Littéraires sur la Planétarité (CELCP, Université de Montréal)
Co-présidents : Laura T. Ilea, Corin Braga, Simon Harel, Heike Härting
The contemporary culture has been, since the mid-20 th century, increasingly dominated by media, ... more The contemporary culture has been, since the mid-20 th century, increasingly dominated by media, which have replaced in dimensions and impact the previous influential institutions in shaping the views, values and behaviours of large audiences. As Peter Horsfield (l987) argues, the media represent a new symbolic environment, which, moreover, has an essential educational impact, shaping, as Douglas Kellner notices (2003), the people's views and values, providing "the symbols, myths, and resources through which we constitute a common culture and through the appropriation of which we insert ourselves into this culture. Media spectacles demonstrate who has power and who is powerless." Thus, the culture we are currently living in is a mediacontrolled and shaped culture and the manners in which it expresses the message are increasingly sophisticated and predominantly visual. As the influential Jessica Evans and Stuart Hall argued, when discussing visual culture: "The mechanically and electronically reproduced image is the semantic and technical unit of the modern mass media and at the heart of post-war popular culture", the image and visual message being employed in a plural and increasingly diversified range of forms on the background of the massified communication and commodifying of information.
Call for papers by Corin Braga
Planetary Spaces.
The Humanities at the Crossroad of the Local and the Post-Global
October 17-18... more Planetary Spaces.
The Humanities at the Crossroad of the Local and the Post-Global
October 17-18-19, 2019, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
A collaboration between Phantasma Center and the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies on Planetarity (CELCP, Université de Montréal)
Co-presidents: Laura T. Ilea, Corin Braga, Simon Harel, Heike Härting
This conference examines and seeks to redefine the “transgressiveness” that characterizes current global spaces. “Transgressiveness” may refer to large migrations of populations, refugees, diasporic or economic displacements, as well as to connected presences that are linked to digital spectrality and reasoning in the era of the post-image. This fluidity of space, including the porosity of borders, constitutes a threshold between the real and the fictional and subverts current political geographies. We invite contributions that explore the ways in which the planetary supersedes, develops, and limits older notions of space, diaspora, psychologies of displacement and (un)belonging, and border thinking. The planetary is a conceptual category that needs to be interrogated for its critical potential. Therefore, the conference seeks to explore topics that address the planetary in innovative ways.
The conference seeks to investigate the intersections between national geographies with their connotations of tradition violence, zombies and ghosts of the past (e.g., ghost towns) — and planetary geographies. The conference raises questions as to how, when, and for what reasons national societies disintegrate and larger planetary social and cultural formations emerge. Is there a causality beyond global neo-liberalism and capitalist market ideologies? How might we relate the notion of a “spectrography of the territory” (N. Clitandre) to planetary forms of people’s sovereignty, sustained slow or/and intensive violence? How do continuous divisions of gender, race and class spatialize the planet or planetary thinking? How does time and temporality intervene into a predominantly spatial planetary imaginary? These questions also serve to interrogate the way in which the various current humanities (nuclear, digital, environmental) are reformulated through a post-global perspective.
In this context we want to explore the planet – as different from “the globe” — as a concept that lacks hierarchical order and promises a heterarchy (D. Hofstadter), namely, a desecrated hierarchy that lacks particular rankings and priorities and scrambles given social, political and cultural inequities of power. Thus, the conference seeks to address the ways in which contemporary readings, representations and discourses of the planet as an ontological and critical category differ from earlier postmodern discourses of diversity, difference and alterity. How does such an understanding of the planetary accommodate and trouble the resurgence of heterodoxies within radically heterogeneous spaces, as, for example, amplified in the contemporary context of the archive of the cold war that resurfaces in the current geopolitical landscape and has long been neglected?
How do cultural and literary representations of radical “alterity” (Spivak) and emerging concepts of planetary space and time configure planetary subjects? How do we understand, aesthetically and politically, alterity as a mode of subject formation? This conference will specifically investigate the relationship between concepts of planetarity and micro-local and anachronistically national localities. The latter are frequently marked by the traumas of communist censorship, by militarized biopolitics of the Cold War, and by surveillance and repression, while, simultaneously experiencing a resurgence of nomadic music, ancestral traditions, feminism and Roma activism, and inter-ethnic “barbarism”. How, then, does planetary thinking negotiate micro-local transformations? How do these transformations contribute to, trouble, or obstruct the articulation of planetary “transgressiveness”? How do they enable, complicate or undermine the making of a planetary imaginary?
Keywords and topics to be addressed:
1. Urban myths, ghost towns, “planetary slums” and megacities
2. Geocritics, planetary commons and planetary solidarities
3. Nomad cartographies, literary and planetary geographies
4. Nuclear humanities
5. Performativity and the making of public planetary spheres
6. The territory, anti-territory and non-territory in the post-image era
7. Cold war archives and planetary thinking
8. Barbarians, monsters, zombies and spectrality (in the context of global capitalism and neo-liberalism)
9. Perception of refugees and planetary imaginaries
10. Neuroses and psychopathies of history and nation in the post-cold war era
11. Radical subjectivities (as related to planetary epistemologies of the subject)
12. Autochthonous feminism and planetary subalternity.
Deadline for all submissions: April 1, 2019.
Submission address: celcp.info@gmail.com; airarle@yahoo.com
Submission Guidelines:
Please submit abstracts of up to 300 words for 20-minute-long papers that address any of the issues or questions listed above. Abstract and papers may respectively be written and given in English or French. We also invite proposals for collaborative panels that take an innovative approach to the received conference format, individual performances, films, videos, short plays, or/and poster presentations. For collaborative panels we ask that a designated chair of the panel submit an abstract/rational for the panel as a whole and attach the abstracts of the individual panelists.
Please submit your abstract via email and as a Word document attachment. Please do not include your name and institutional address on the abstract and use “PlanetarySpaces.2019-Abstract” as the subject heading.
Please send a separate document including a brief academic biography (100-150 words).
Notification of acceptance: by April 15, 2019.
The papers will be published in Caietele Echinox, vol. 38, 2020 (see the website phantasma.lett.ubbcluj.ro).
Papers by Corin Braga
Les Métamorphoses D’Apulée 1. Le scénario initiatique archétypal
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, Jun 27, 2024
Post-apocalyptic Critical Dystopias: Killing the Minotaur in the Labyrinth
Springer eBooks, 2024
Utopia: between Eutopia and Outopia The paper starts from the observation that Thomas More’s semi... more Utopia: between Eutopia and Outopia The paper starts from the observation that Thomas More’s seminal work Utopia stands between two modal categories of fictional worlds, the possible and the impossible. On the textual level, the author is careful to comply with a convention of truthfulness in order to place Hythloday’s journey within the history and geography of the time. On the metatextual level, Thomas More uses names (toponyms and ethnonyms) as means of denying the empirical reality of Hythloday’s journey and emphasizing its satirical, self-critical nature, on the one hand, and its theoretical and intertextual dimension (the scholarly, witty dialogue with Plato, Erasmus and the whole humanist tradition), on the other hand. Thus while at the literal level, Utopia has a fictional ontological consistency that makes it a pragmatic utopia or, in other words, a eutopia, its truthfulness is undermined at the metadiscursive level by a witticism that is typical of the age of Early Moderni...
La censure religieuse de la pensée utopique Type de publication: Chapitre d'ouvrage Ouvrage: Du p... more La censure religieuse de la pensée utopique Type de publication: Chapitre d'ouvrage Ouvrage: Du paradis perdu à l'antiutopie aux XVI-XVIII siècles Pages: 197 à 236 Collection: Lire le XVII siècle, n° 1
Vincentiana, 2000
Pour comprendre les Constitutions actuelles de la Congrégation de la Mission, il est très utile d... more Pour comprendre les Constitutions actuelles de la Congrégation de la Mission, il est très utile de connaître le cheminement historique qui les a précédées. Leur origine, en effet, part du contrat des Gondi avec saint Vincent et de la reconnaissance de la Compagnie par l'Autorité ecclésiastique; cette origine se reflète sur la formation graduelle des normes juridiques demandées pour leur consolidation, ainsi que sur la codification des principes et des lois qui leur donnent forme dans l'Église. Dans ce processus on découvre le projet et la
Antiutopies primitivistes et tératologiques Type de publication: Chapitre d'ouvrage Ouvrage: Du p... more Antiutopies primitivistes et tératologiques Type de publication: Chapitre d'ouvrage Ouvrage: Du paradis perdu à l'antiutopie aux XVI-XVIII siècles Pages: 309 à 361 Collection: Lire le XVII siècle, n° 1
Type de publication: Chapitre d'ouvrage Ouvrage: Du paradis perdu à l'antiutopie aux XVI-XVIII si... more Type de publication: Chapitre d'ouvrage Ouvrage: Du paradis perdu à l'antiutopie aux XVI-XVIII siècles Pages: 155 à 196 Collection: Lire le XVII siècle, n° 1
Les utopies chrétiennes Type de publication: Chapitre d'ouvrage Ouvrage: Du paradis perdu à l'ant... more Les utopies chrétiennes Type de publication: Chapitre d'ouvrage Ouvrage: Du paradis perdu à l'antiutopie aux XVI-XVIII siècles Pages: 237 à 267 Collection: Lire le XVII siècle, n° 1
La clôture des utopies classiques Type de publication: Chapitre d'ouvrage Ouvrage: Du paradis per... more La clôture des utopies classiques Type de publication: Chapitre d'ouvrage Ouvrage: Du paradis perdu à l'antiutopie aux XVI-XVIII siècles Pages: 363 à 373 Collection: Lire le XVII siècle, n° 1
La Colombe-Phénix chez Umberto Eco
Iris, Jun 30, 2013
<jats:p>Dans ses romans « historiques », Umberto Eco revisite, de manière postmoderne, le g... more <jats:p>Dans ses romans « historiques », Umberto Eco revisite, de manière postmoderne, le grand bassin sémantique des « merveilles » (mirabilia) de la littérature médiévale et de la Renaissance. Plus spécifiquement, dans L'Île du jour d'avant, il travaille sur la toile de fond de l'imaginaire cosmographique de l'âge des grandes « reconnaissances ». Les aventures du protagoniste suivent un trajet initiatique vers un « centre sacré » de la mappemonde, le méridien zéro. En même temps, les péripéties extérieures sont le corrélatif d'une évolution intérieure, que nous analysons avec les instruments de la psychologie analytique jungienne. La colombe orange qui jaillit de l'île au moment culminant du roman, ayant les caractéristiques d'un Phénix — oiseau de la rédemption et la renaissance — est un symbole de l'accomplissement du personnage, de l'atteinte de son soi mystique.</jats:p>
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CFPs by Corin Braga
L’espace planétaire.
Les humanités au carrefour du local et du post-global
Les 17, 18 et 19 octobre 2019 à l’Université Babes-Bolyai de Cluj-Napoca, Roumanie
Une collaboration entre le Centre Phantasma
et le Centre des Études Culturelles et Littéraires sur la Planétarité (CELCP, Université de Montréal)
Co-présidents : Laura T. Ilea, Corin Braga, Simon Harel, Heike Härting
Call for papers by Corin Braga
The Humanities at the Crossroad of the Local and the Post-Global
October 17-18-19, 2019, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
A collaboration between Phantasma Center and the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies on Planetarity (CELCP, Université de Montréal)
Co-presidents: Laura T. Ilea, Corin Braga, Simon Harel, Heike Härting
This conference examines and seeks to redefine the “transgressiveness” that characterizes current global spaces. “Transgressiveness” may refer to large migrations of populations, refugees, diasporic or economic displacements, as well as to connected presences that are linked to digital spectrality and reasoning in the era of the post-image. This fluidity of space, including the porosity of borders, constitutes a threshold between the real and the fictional and subverts current political geographies. We invite contributions that explore the ways in which the planetary supersedes, develops, and limits older notions of space, diaspora, psychologies of displacement and (un)belonging, and border thinking. The planetary is a conceptual category that needs to be interrogated for its critical potential. Therefore, the conference seeks to explore topics that address the planetary in innovative ways.
The conference seeks to investigate the intersections between national geographies with their connotations of tradition violence, zombies and ghosts of the past (e.g., ghost towns) — and planetary geographies. The conference raises questions as to how, when, and for what reasons national societies disintegrate and larger planetary social and cultural formations emerge. Is there a causality beyond global neo-liberalism and capitalist market ideologies? How might we relate the notion of a “spectrography of the territory” (N. Clitandre) to planetary forms of people’s sovereignty, sustained slow or/and intensive violence? How do continuous divisions of gender, race and class spatialize the planet or planetary thinking? How does time and temporality intervene into a predominantly spatial planetary imaginary? These questions also serve to interrogate the way in which the various current humanities (nuclear, digital, environmental) are reformulated through a post-global perspective.
In this context we want to explore the planet – as different from “the globe” — as a concept that lacks hierarchical order and promises a heterarchy (D. Hofstadter), namely, a desecrated hierarchy that lacks particular rankings and priorities and scrambles given social, political and cultural inequities of power. Thus, the conference seeks to address the ways in which contemporary readings, representations and discourses of the planet as an ontological and critical category differ from earlier postmodern discourses of diversity, difference and alterity. How does such an understanding of the planetary accommodate and trouble the resurgence of heterodoxies within radically heterogeneous spaces, as, for example, amplified in the contemporary context of the archive of the cold war that resurfaces in the current geopolitical landscape and has long been neglected?
How do cultural and literary representations of radical “alterity” (Spivak) and emerging concepts of planetary space and time configure planetary subjects? How do we understand, aesthetically and politically, alterity as a mode of subject formation? This conference will specifically investigate the relationship between concepts of planetarity and micro-local and anachronistically national localities. The latter are frequently marked by the traumas of communist censorship, by militarized biopolitics of the Cold War, and by surveillance and repression, while, simultaneously experiencing a resurgence of nomadic music, ancestral traditions, feminism and Roma activism, and inter-ethnic “barbarism”. How, then, does planetary thinking negotiate micro-local transformations? How do these transformations contribute to, trouble, or obstruct the articulation of planetary “transgressiveness”? How do they enable, complicate or undermine the making of a planetary imaginary?
Keywords and topics to be addressed:
1. Urban myths, ghost towns, “planetary slums” and megacities
2. Geocritics, planetary commons and planetary solidarities
3. Nomad cartographies, literary and planetary geographies
4. Nuclear humanities
5. Performativity and the making of public planetary spheres
6. The territory, anti-territory and non-territory in the post-image era
7. Cold war archives and planetary thinking
8. Barbarians, monsters, zombies and spectrality (in the context of global capitalism and neo-liberalism)
9. Perception of refugees and planetary imaginaries
10. Neuroses and psychopathies of history and nation in the post-cold war era
11. Radical subjectivities (as related to planetary epistemologies of the subject)
12. Autochthonous feminism and planetary subalternity.
Deadline for all submissions: April 1, 2019.
Submission address: celcp.info@gmail.com; airarle@yahoo.com
Submission Guidelines:
Please submit abstracts of up to 300 words for 20-minute-long papers that address any of the issues or questions listed above. Abstract and papers may respectively be written and given in English or French. We also invite proposals for collaborative panels that take an innovative approach to the received conference format, individual performances, films, videos, short plays, or/and poster presentations. For collaborative panels we ask that a designated chair of the panel submit an abstract/rational for the panel as a whole and attach the abstracts of the individual panelists.
Please submit your abstract via email and as a Word document attachment. Please do not include your name and institutional address on the abstract and use “PlanetarySpaces.2019-Abstract” as the subject heading.
Please send a separate document including a brief academic biography (100-150 words).
Notification of acceptance: by April 15, 2019.
The papers will be published in Caietele Echinox, vol. 38, 2020 (see the website phantasma.lett.ubbcluj.ro).
Papers by Corin Braga