Event overview
A Workshop with Daniel Katz (Warwick) and Benjamin Noys (Chichester), hosted by the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought (CPCT)
The current theoretical scene has often swung between invocations of affirmative joy and melancholic meditations. This oscillation is figured in the assumption of a joyous continuity between philosophy and politics, or the melancholy and chastened consideration of their sundering. Instead, this event focuses on neurosis as a missing term, a form of ‘blockage’, of delay and prevarication, which could open-up the tensions of the present moment. In particular this also involves a re-consideration of poetry as a site that has witnessed a resurgence in political engagement and the thinking through of the damaged subjectivities of contemporary capitalism. Poetry, often dismissed under the signs of neurosis or of lack of relevance or popularity, offers another ‘minor’ site for interrogating the theoretical and political moods and affects of the present moment. This unstable combination of neurosis and poetry is a deliberately fragile construction that we hope can allow the exploration of the fragilities of our subjectivities and experiences.
Provisional Schedule
10:45-11:00 am - Introduction
11:00-12:00 pm - Professor Emma Mason (Warwick)
12:15-1:15 pm - Professor Daniel Katz (Warwick)
1:15-2:45 pm - Lunch
2:45-3:45 pm - Dr. Natalia Cecire (Sussex)
4:00-5:00 pm - Professor Benjamin Noys (Chichester)
5:15-6:15 pm - Roundtable
Preliminary Readings
Berardi, Franco, The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance (Semiotext(e), 2012).
Noys, Benjamin, ‘Long Live Neurosis!’ (2016): https://www.academia.edu/27780212/Long_Live_Neurosis_
Katz, Daniel, “‘I did not walk here all the way from prose’: Ben Lerner’s virtual poetics”, Textual Practice online, 24 March 2016: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0950236X.2015.1119987
Lysack, Krista, ‘The Productions of Time: Keble, Rossetti and Victorian Devotional Reading’, Victorian Studies, 55.3 (2013), 451-470.
Mason, Emma, ‘Entanglement in fir: thinking matter in Peter Larkin’s “praying // firs \\ attenuate”’, in Religions, special issue ed. by Kevin Hart (forthcoming).
Seltzer, Mark, The Official World (Duke University Press, 2016).
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 18 Mar 2017 | 10:45am - 6:30pm |
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