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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><font size="4">Against the Slow Cancellation of the Future</font><span style="font-size:18pt"></span></font></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">15th-16th
June 2017<span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Goldsmiths, University of London<span></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="DE"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">New
Cross, SE14 6NW London<span></span></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4">- Call for Papers -<span></span></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4">**Deadline: 15th May**</font></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">The long dark night of the end of history has to
be grasped as an enormous opportunity (…). In a situation in which nothing can
happen, suddenly anything is possible.<span></span></font></i></p>
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Mark Fisher <span style="font-size:11.5pt"> </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="letter-spacing:-0.24px"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>Keynote speakers</b>: Nina Power (Philosophy, Roehampton University), Dilar Dirik (Sociology, Cambridge), Matthew Fuller (CCS, Goldsmiths), Shela Sheikh (CCS, Goldsmiths)</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">This anti-disciplinary conference is organized by the MA
students of the Centre for Cultural Studies (CCS), Goldsmiths, University of
London. This will be the last conference of the CCS as it now exists since in
the upcoming academic year it will be dissolved. <span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">It seems at once obvious and naïve that we look to the
future when considering the transformation of society as a project in which we
ourselves take part. Though the questioning of the unbridled futurity of
modernism is undoubtedly important, we now find ourselves at a point in which
forward-looking, transformative or utopian projects are increasingly hard to
even imagine.<span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Our frame of reference is Franco “Bifo” Berardi’s
“slow cancellation of the future”, which we in the same breath proclaim our
opposition to. Mark Fisher reminds us that its meaning “is not only that sense
of termination, but [also] the gradual nature of it”; the future not having been
unashamedly ripped from our grasp, but rather stolen away silently, piece by
piece.<span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">We are not so presumptuous as to declare the slow
cancellation of the future a completed process. Indeed it is perhaps in the
very moment at which we accept the definitive conclusion of this project – thus
admitting it ourselves – that the future truly ceases to exist. And this is
precisely why we meet: to discuss what we might do as activists, thinkers,
groups and initiatives, against the slow cancellation of the future. <span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">We welcome papers within but not limited to areas such
as: decolonial/postcolonial/indigenous studies and practices, migration and sovereignty,
ecofeminisms, (mental) health and capitalism, critique and the future of
cultural studies, biopolitics and beyond, and the crisis of neoliberalism. <span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Proposals for papers and
other forms of contribution should be submitted by <b>15th May</b> by
email to: <b><a href="mailto:ccsconference2017@outlook.com">ccsconference2017@outlook.com</a></b><b><span></span></b></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">They will be organized into the following panels:<span></span></font></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">
</span><b>Confiscated Futures</b>
– How and why are we here, and which processes and forces have created the
predicament that we are seeking to problematize?<span></span></font></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">
</span><b>Futures of the Past</b>
– How has the idea of the future been deployed up until now, what are its
pitfalls and possibilities, and how are we to relate to struggles past?<span></span></font></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">
</span><b>The Worst of All Possible Futures</b> – As apocalyptic thinking abounds, what are those
relations which underlie this, and which dangers already present threaten to
rethink the future as dystopian reality?<span></span></font></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align:justify"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">
</span><b>Alternative Futures</b>
– How is the future to be reclaimed, reimagined, wrested back from its seeming
disappearance, without repeating well-trodden ground and failed strategies?<span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">We welcome classic conference papers as well as
proposals for workshops, performances and film screenings. Your proposal should
include a 300-word proposal of your topic and the form it will take, as well as
a short biography of no more that 200 words.<span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Though we believe that people should be remunerated
for their time and travel, we are in the unfortunate position of having very limited funds for this
conference, and are therefore generally unable to provide this. <span lang="EN-US">In case you are not living in London
and are unable to provide travel and/or lodging, please contact us through the
email above</span> and we will see what is possible
with our resources.<span></span></font></p>
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