<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br><h1 class="">Tuning Speculation IV (NOV. 2016)</h1>
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<h3><strong>Tuning Speculation: De-Tuning Speculation</strong></h3>
<p>18-20 November 2016, Toronto (Canada)<br>
Organized by The Occulture<br>
(David Cecchetto, Marc Couroux, Ted Hiebert, and Eldritch Priest)<strong><br>
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<p>While recent strains of speculative thought suggest an inevitable
rendezvous with excess, total bullshit and failure, something is
lacking. Indeed, to the extent that these speculations bank on the
articulation of an elaborate metaphysics, a planetary politics, or even
the conviction that nonsense always makes sense, they belong to a
restricted economy that makes thought servile to the production of
knowledge rather than the sovereign of its own expenditure. That is, if
late capitalism has taught us anything, it is that any intelligent or
useful insight can be instantly coded, co-opted, and commodified
according to the seemingly inexhaustible rhythms of exchange. In this
respect, any compact with useless ideas, failed ambitions and outright
prevarication is as much a salutary development as an exit.</p>
<p>Like the three previous meetings that “tuned” speculation to its more
experimental moods, this conference continues to question the
(in)utility of speculative thought. Yet, if it’s the case that even
something as seemingly unprofitable as <em>dreaming</em> may not be entirely sovereign, then perhaps it’s time to <em>de-tune</em> speculation.
Focusing on the resonances between creativity, the unintelligible, and
the dubious sovereignty of sheer expenditure this fourth instalment aims
to explore the ways in which nonsense, hyperstition, opacity, stupidity
and imaginary solutions are capable of generating creative and
destructive alternatives to measured and logical thinking. This focus is
especially warranted given contemporary culture’s increasingly
voracious appetite for an integral transparency (characteristic of both
control modalities and rationalist endeavours) that seeks to
instrumentalize art, wantonly levelling its native capacities for
ambiguity and inscrutability in the process.</p>
<p>We therefore seek contributions from scholars, artists, writers,
activists and comedians who take seriously the fictionality of
use(lessness) and (un)intelligibility. Moreover, as an added nod to the
powers of the false, <strong>we’re asking that each paper include at
least one untruth, misattribution, feint, plagiarism (choose your own
mode of mendacity), exo- or esoterically embedded</strong>. While
several approaches can catalyze such speculations, we propose to
concentrate on sounding art—broadly understood—in order to leverage the
fated semiotic parasitism, differential production, relational
expression, and perceived multiplicity that informs such practices. We
also welcome various reflections on sonodistractions, phonochaosmosis,
’patasonics, harmelodicprescience, audio pragmètics, chronoportation,
h/Hypermusic, rhetorical modes of speculation and other invocations of
impossible, imaginary, and/or unintelligible aural (dis)encounters.</p>
<p>Please send an abstract (maximum 250 words) to <a href="mailto:torn@asounder.org">torn@asounder.org</a> by <del><strong>1 July 2016 .</strong></del><strong> Deadline has been extended to 15 July. </strong> In
addition, given that we will be making multiple funding applications to
support travel for all presenters, please include the following with
your abstract: short bio (150 words), list of recent publications,
summary of academic degrees. Notification of acceptance will be given in
early August.</p><p><a href="http://goo.gl/m5W40h">http://goo.gl/m5W40h</a><br></p></div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>carlos palombini, ph.d. (dunelm)<br>professor de musicologia ufmg<br>professor colaborador ppgm-unirio<br><a href="http://www.proibidao.org" target="_blank">www.proibidao.org</a><br><a href="http://goo.gl/KMV98I" target="_blank">ufmg.academia.edu/CarlosPalombini</a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos_Palombini2" target="_blank">www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos_Palombini2</a><br><a href="http://scholar.google.com.br/citations?user=YLmXN7AAAAAJ" target="_blank">scholar.google.com.br/citations?user=YLmXN7AAAAAJ</a><br></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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