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Subject: CFP -- Metaphors of Economy
Date:   Sat, 12 Feb 2000 04:53:53 -1000
 
Call for Papers
University of East Anglia 
School of English and American Studies
 
'Metaphors of Economy'
23-24 June 2000
 
Keynote-Speaker:
Professor Steven Connor (Birkbeck College, London)
 
"Today a stage has been reached when one could express all sorts of
relations-from love to pure logic-in the language of supply and demand, of
security and discount."
Musil, The Man without Qualities.
 
In recent years, metaphors of economy have proved to have a very great
analytical power in literary and cultural criticism.  What kind of critical
advantage does this move towards economic metaphors bestow?  The School of
English and American Studies at the University of East Anglia invites
graduate students and academics from various disciplines and different
cultural spaces to explore the 'metaphors of economy' as a theme in
contemporary academic practice.  Contributors are encouraged to interpret
the conference title as widely as possible.  We welcome case studies,
interpretations of literary texts, and theoretical pieces in all genres and
periods.  Possibilities include, but are not limited to:
 
Linguistic economies: the parallels between language and money, literature
and political economy, e.g. in Saussure and Hjemslev.
 
Narrative economies: e.g. Barthes's comments on verbal excess and narrative
luxury.
 
Critical/Political economies: Mauss's essay on the Gift, Bataille's notion
of a general economy, Serres's parasitism, Baudrillard's critique of the
political economy, Lyotard's libidinal economy, Bourdieu's symbolic
capital, the economic significance of Derrida's différance, Kristeva's
critique of communication as merchandise, Deleuze's and Guattari's analysis
of schizophrenia, Freud's economic model of pleasure etc.
 
Identity politics, and economics: e.g. women as commodities and objects of
exchange, feminine economies as antithetical to masculine economies of
limitation, property, Irigaray's 'Speculation' perceiving sexual difference
as excluded from any system of equivalence and exchange, Cixous' notion of
an alternative (textual) economy etc.
 
General topics concerning economy and anti-economy: the gift, waste,
expenditure, potlatch, excess, simulacra/simulation, cyberspace, the
marketplace, commodification etc.
 
 
Submission Deadline:
Please send hard-copy abstracts of 300 words by March 31st 2000 to:
 
 
'Metaphors of Economy' Conference
School of English and American Studies
University of East Anglia
Norwich, NR4 7TJ
UK
 
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Subject: CFP -- SCE sessions at MLA 2000
Date:   Sat, 12 Feb 2000 04:56:54 -1000
 
ECONOMIES OF WRITING. 
The Society for Critical Exchange will sponsor two panels on "Economies of
Writing" at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association,
December 27-30, 2000, in Washington, D.C. We seek investigations of text
production and distribution with special emphasis on changing technologies,
sites, and social arrangements.  Both historical and perspectives are
welcome. 
 
Send 2-3 page proposals by 10 March to:  
Martha Woodmansee ([log in to unmask]) 
and/or 
James Porter ([log in to unmask]), 
Dept. of English, Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH 44106.
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