[ANPPOM-Lista] CFP: tuning speculation iv (2016): de-tuning speculation

Carlos Palombini cpalombini em gmail.com
Sáb Jul 9 00:03:25 BRT 2016


Tuning Speculation IV (NOV. 2016)
*Tuning Speculation: De-Tuning Speculation*

18-20 November 2016, Toronto (Canada)
Organized by The Occulture
(David Cecchetto, Marc Couroux, Ted Hiebert, and Eldritch Priest)

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.

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 *dreaming* may not be entirely sovereign, then
perhaps it’s time to *de-tune* 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.

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, *we’re
asking that each paper include at least one untruth, misattribution, feint,
plagiarism (choose your own mode of mendacity), exo- or esoterically
embedded*.  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.

Please send an abstract (maximum 250 words) to torn em asounder.org by *1
July 2016 .**  Deadline has been extended to 15 July. * 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.

http://goo.gl/m5W40h
-- 
carlos palombini, ph.d. (dunelm)
professor de musicologia ufmg
professor colaborador ppgm-unirio
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ufmg.academia.edu/CarlosPalombini <http://goo.gl/KMV98I>
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