<nettime-ann> cfp: Interactive metal fatigue conference in Rotterdam (June 6-8 2012)

[Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>]

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Interactive metal fatigue conference in Rotterdam

Call for abstracts

From Wednesday 6 until Friday 8 of June 2012, Erasmus University  
Rotterdam will host a conference on the subject of ‘interactive metal  
fatigue’.

The conference aims to philosophically analyse the social and  
psychological burden that today’s thoroughly interactive society  
imposes on its members, through its unrelenting efforts to realise  
emancipation and democracy. The success of the Enlightenment project  
that turned emancipation and democracy into an incontrovertible part  
of modern life, has produced ‘interactive metal fatigue’ as an  
unforeseen and unintended consequence: the fatigue that follows upon  
our realisation that we have placed a virtually unlimited duty of  
emancipatory responsibility upon ourselves.

This guiding idea has been developed for the last couple of years in  
the research programme ‘Interactive metal fatigue’ directed by Gijs  
van Oenen, sponsored by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific  
Research NOW, and carried out at the Faculty of Philosophy of Erasmus  
University Rotterdam. Initially, the research took its clues from the  
notion of ‘interpassivity’, as developed by philosophers Robert  
Pfaller and Slavoj Žižek, in the sphere of philosophy of art. Extended  
and enriched through the notion of ‘interactive metal fatigue’, the  
versatile concept of interpassivity has shown a surprising ability to  
diagnose a variety of new phenomena in contemporary society in new and  
productive ways.
The broad scope of the research topic will make the conference of  
interest not only to philosophers, but also to many practitioners in  
the social sciences and the humanities, as well as to those who deal  
with issues in art and public space, or issues of policing and  
governmentality. Cultural-psychological aspects of interpassivity,  
like depression and narcissism, will also be addressed.

The conference will be relatively compact – we aim for some 65  
participants in all – and will take place at an attractive location in  
the city of Rotterdam.

The conference will feature four keynote speakers:

Jodi Dean (Dept of political science, Hobart and William Smith  
Colleges, Geneva, New York)
Robert Pfaller (Dept of philosophy, Universität fur angewandte Kunst,  
Vienna)
Alain Ehrenberg (Université Paris Descartes, Centre de Recherche  
Médecine, Sciences, Santé, Santé Mentale, Société)
Mark Fisher (Goldsmiths, University of London, and City Literary  
Institute, London)

There is also room for a number of presentations, of about 45 minutes,  
by other participants.

Those interested in holding such a presentation should send an email  
to Gijs van Oenen before November 15, 2011, with a 300 word abstract;  
email address vanoenen@fwb.eur.nl.

You will be informed before January 10, 2012, about acceptance of your  
proposal.

If you want to visit the conference without holding a presentation,  
please also contact Gijs van Oenen (vanoenen@fwb.eur.nl)

The conference language will be English.

For more information: http://www2.eur.nl/fw/law/iamf


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