Semiophagy: Journal of Pataphysics and Existential Semiotics is pleased to announce a new volume of articles, artwork, and reviews. Semiophagy is also now accepting papers, artwork, and reviews for peer review. The general theme of our next issue will be “The Disembodied Hand: Signs of the Body”:
Inundated by the media spectacle surrounding Michael Jackson’s death, [...]
8th September, 2009
Location: Room 0.31, Humanities Building, Cardiff University
Conference organiser: Aidan Tynan
Some of the most influential theoretical contributions of the last several decades have sought to formulate the relationship between the body and its symbolic environments through the concept of the symptom. Perhaps the most influential of these was Lacan’s [...]
Monte Verde, Costa Rica, July 25th-31st, 2010 – CALL FOR PAPERS
The International Society for the Study of Time (ISST) seeks proposals for presentations at its 2010 conference in the cloud forest of Costa Rica, on the theme of Origins and Futures. The ISST, renowned for its interdisciplinary scope, welcomes contributions from all scholarly, creative, or [...]
SantralIstanbul, location provided by Istanbul Bilgi University – April 22nd-24th, 2010
information on application and registration here
Deadline for applications: September 1st, 2009
Panel proposals, individual proposals and performance proposals are encouraged but not limited to following areas:
Un-gestalt, Détournament, Spectacle/Specular, Noise, Perversion, Madness, Schizo-analysis, Hysteria, Histrionics, Addiction, Altered states, Actual/Virtual, Immanence/Transcendental, Dialectics, Nomadology, Affect/Percept, Noumenon/Phenomenon, Time/Matter, Ressentiment, Macro/Micro [...]
Semiophagy is an interdisciplinary forum for scholars, artists, and activists to engage in semiotics, broadly construed. More than abstractly saying what signs are generally, Semiophagy pushes the concept of the sign toward questions of praxis. Instead of asking ‘what’ a sign is, it questions ‘how’ we discover and interpret signs in the first place.
Semiophagy aims [...]
University of Cologne (Schloss Wahn) – August 3rd-7th, 2009
Instructors: Ian Buchanan, Paul Harris, Patricia Pisters, Mirjam Schaub, Janell Watson, James Williams
Contact: LEGOdeleuze@web.de
Registration: open 01.10. 2008
60 places: “first come, first serve”.
All information here
