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    The Theory Reading Group at Cornell University invites submissions for its sixth annual interdisciplinary spring conference: Form and Genesis. Keynote speakers: Adrian Johnston (university of new mexico) and Robert o'brien (southwestern university) the relation between logical or normative form and its temporal, material, or historical genesis has wide implications. What is the status of formalism, whether literary or logical-mathematical, in contemporary theory?

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    The Theory Reading Group at Cornell University invites submissions for its sixth annual interdisciplinary spring conference: Form and Genesis. Keynote speakers: Adrian Johnston (university of new mexico) and Robert o'brien (southwestern university) the relation between logical or normative form and its temporal, material, or historical genesis has wide implications. What is the status of formalism, whether literary or logical-mathematical, in contemporary theory?

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    Form and Genesis: Adrian Johnston Robert Kaufman

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    The Theory Reading Group at Cornell University invites submissions for its sixth annual interdisciplinary spring conference: Form and Genesis. Keynote speakers: Adrian Johnston (university of new mexico) and Robert o'brien (southwestern university) the relation between logical or normative form and its temporal, material, or historical genesis has wide implications. What is the status of formalism, whether literary or logical-mathematical, in contemporary theory?

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    Form and Genesis

    http://www.arts.cornell.edu/trg/conf2010cfp.html

    TheTheoryReadingGroupatCornellUniversityinvitessubmissionsforitssixthannual interdisciplinaryspringconference:

    FormandGenesis
    FeaturingkeynotespeakersAdrianJohnston(UniversityofNewMexico)andRobert

    Kaufman(UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley)
    CornellUniversity Ithaca,NewYork April2224,2010

    Increasinglyitseemsthatcontemporarythoughtisconfrontedwithtwowaysofexplainingits objects.Ontheonehand,aformalapproachseekstoanalyzethenecessarystructuresor deRiningqualitiesthatmakesomethingwhatitis.Ontheotherhand,ageneticorhistorical methodaimstouncovertheforcesthatgiverisetoformorstructureintheRirstplace.Dothese modesofexplanationdisqualifyoneanother,oraretherecompellingprospectsfortheir integration?Forexample,isitpossibletounderstandhowthoughtorrationalitycangraspits owndeterminingprocesses?Or,onthecontrary,isthoughtstructurallyunabletoaccessa domainthatisbynatureexteriortoreason,sense,ororder? Broadlyunderstood,theformalapproachtendstoseeklogicalexplanations,whilethegenetic approachlookstomaterialistorgenealogicalaccounts.Therelationbetweenthesetwoorders ofexplanationhaswideimplications.Whatistheconnectionbetweenlogicalornormativeform anditstemporal,material,orhistoricalgenesis?Conversely,whatmightananalysisofthe structureofgenealogyorcritiquetellusaboutthelatter?Doesthepoliticalcritiqueofformas anarbitraryconventionmitigateitspowersofnormativity?Whatistherelationshipbetween formandhistory,orformandmaterialityinliteraryandaesthetictheory?Whatisthestatusof formalism,whetherliteraryorlogicalmathematical,incontemporarytheory? Suggestedtopics: Speculationandcritique Formalismsandhistoricisms Thetranscendentalandtheempirical Limitsofphilosophy/limitsofscience Formofthepolitical Originality Eventsofreason

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    Form and Genesis

    http://www.arts.cornell.edu/trg/conf2010cfp.html

    Conditionandcause Senseandnonsense Formandgenre Historyandforminaesthetics Breakingform:thesublime,theunrepresentable,theiconoclastic Formationanddeformation TheRiniteandtheinRinite Formsoftheevent Structureanddrive(Freud,Lacan,Deleuze,Guattari) Formandinterpretation(NewCritics,Deconstruction) History,genealogy,critique(Nietzsche,Foucault) Marxismandform(Benjamin,Adorno,Jameson) Formsoflife(Wittgenstein,Arendt,Agamben)

    Pleaselimitthelengthofabstractstonomorethan250words. Thedeadlineforsubmissionof250wordabstractsfor20minute_presentationsisMarch1,2010. Pleaseincludeyourname,emailaddress,andphonenumber.Abstractsshouldbeemailedto theory@cornell.edu. NoticesofacceptancewillbesentnolaterthanMarch6,2010. FormoreinformationabouttheCornellTheoryReadingGroup,visit_http://www.arts.cornell. edu/trg.

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