“Metaphor is situated at the precise point at which meaning is produced in nonmeaning… and at which it becomes palpable that, in deriding the signifier, man defies his very destiny.”
April 28, 2010
Scanning the web looking for anything related to graduate-level study of semiotics comes shows a bizarre trend. Many websites whose descriptions are promising, end up being a) written in borderline-unreadeable HTML and b) last updated sometime in 2000. What gives? What happened to semiotics in the year 2000? As a rookie in the field, one… [Read more…]
April 12, 2010
http://www.ut.ee/SOSE/conference/2011_zoosemiotics/index.html Zoosemiotics is an interdisciplinary research program introduced by an American semiotician Thomas A. Sebeok in the 1960s with the aim to merge semiotics and ethology and to launch semiotic studies of animal communication. The foundational idea in zoosemiotics is that relations between animals and their environment as well as between different individuals are not… [Read more…]
January 4, 2010
Animals and Animality Across the Humanities and Social Sciences: Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, June 26-27, 2010 full name / name of organization: Queen’s University contact email: jaime.j.s.denike@queensu.ca http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/34257 Keynotes: Carol Adams and David Clark The emergent field of animal and animality studies is rapidly being articulated across scholarly boundaries. We invite graduate students to enter this… [Read more…]
January 4, 2010
ANNOUNCE THE FRENCH SECTION’S SECOND ANNUAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE Littérature & animalité April 15-16th, 2010 CALL FOR PAPERS Much has been written about animality: it is a theme that permeates all periods and cultures in various forms. The intersection between humanity and animality remains a vibrant area of inquiry. In recent years, numerous works have engaged with this… [Read more…]
January 3, 2010
http://www.theoria.ca/theoria/archives/2009/12/cfp-foucault-and-animals.html The collection will be unashamedly critical in approach, seeking to include articles that challenge systems of power which simultaneously organise conduct, violence, care and domination of nonhuman animals, from wildlife parks to factory farms. However, we also recognize there is an urgent need for indepth, inter-disciplinary theorisation that is able to map and challenge… [Read more…]
December 21, 2009
As hyper-specialization is bemoaned at the same time it is reinforced, to what extent can emerging “disciplines” lay claim to its newly found coordinates on the continually changing landscape of the humanities? It’s safe to say that as of late-2009, Animal Studies (or Critical Animal Studies, depending on who you ask) has successfully passed it’s… [Read more…]
November 30, 2009
Im feeling nostalgic for manifestos. Here‘s one co-authored by Sarah Juliet Lauro and Karen Embry. Our fundamental assertion is that there is an irreconcilable tension between global capitalism and the theoretical school of posthumanism. This is an essay full of zombies—the historical, folkloric zombie of Haitian origin, which reveals much about the subject position and its relationship… [Read more…]
April 30, 2010
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