{"id":6035,"date":"2014-04-09T13:50:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T11:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmartproject.net\/netex\/?p=6035"},"modified":"2014-04-09T15:03:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T13:03:10","slug":"call-zero-future-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/?p=6035","title":{"rendered":"call: Zero Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Call for entries<br \/>\n<strong>Deadline: 14 April 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ZERO FUTURE: is the future obsolete?<br \/>\nConference: Friday, November 7, 2014<\/p>\n<p>A day\u00e2\u20ac\u0090long conference associated with<br \/>\nThe HTMlles 11 | ZER0 FUTURE<br \/>\nFeminist festival of media arts + digital culture<br \/>\nFestival: November 7 \u00e2\u20ac\u0090 15, 2014<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>CALL FOR PAPERS: deadline April 14, 2014<br \/>\nThe McGill Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF) is pleased to invite presentation proposals for a one\u00e2\u20ac\u0090day<br \/>\nconference entitled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ZER0 FUTURE\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. The conference is associated with The HTMlles 11 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ZER0 FUTURE\u00e2\u20ac\u009d feminist festival of<br \/>\nmedia arts + digital culture, produced by Studio XX held November 7\u00e2\u20ac\u009015 in Montreal, Canada.<br \/>\nThe HTMlles is an international platform dedicated to the presentation of women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, trans and gender non\u00e2\u20ac\u0090conforming artists\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<br \/>\nindependent media artworks in a transdisciplinary environment that strives for anti\u00e2\u20ac\u0090oppression.<br \/>\nFriday, November 7, 2014 \u00e2\u20ac\u0090 A day\u00e2\u20ac\u0090long conference associated with<br \/>\nThe HTMlles 11 | ZER0 FUTURE<br \/>\nFeminist festival of media arts + digital culture<br \/>\nThe \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ZER0 FUTURE\u00e2\u20ac\u009d festival and conference contemplate the intersecting, hopeful and dystopian imaginaries of current<br \/>\nfuturisms. While the 1990s marked the end of the century that mobilized around the promise and seeming progress of the<br \/>\nfuture, the start of the 21st century has witnessed the intensification of economic crises and global climactic events that<br \/>\nincreasingly call the future into question. On television screens, on portable game players and in popular music cultures,<br \/>\nzombies, aliens and other monstrous and fantastical figures have proliferated, taking shape in cultural formations such as<br \/>\nafrofuturism, cyberfeminism, in queer and feminist manifestoes, and in feminist and anti\u00e2\u20ac\u0090colonial reinventions of future<br \/>\ntemporality.<br \/>\nWe invite submissions for conference presentations that shed light on the perception of today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s futures, including critical and<br \/>\ncreative interventions inspired by (but not limited to): afrofuturism, chicanafuturism, feminist cyberpunk, utopian and<br \/>\ndystopic cyberfeminism or other feminist science fiction and queer futurity, for instance. We will accept submissions for both<br \/>\nacademic talks and non\u00e2\u20ac\u0090traditional conference presentations. Submissions will be accepted in either English or French (though<br \/>\nplease note that the conference will only offer passive translation for those who need it). We particularly encourage graduate<br \/>\nstudents and post\u00e2\u20ac\u0090graduate scholars to apply, though submissions will also be accepted from faculty and non\u00e2\u20ac\u0090academic<br \/>\nparticipants.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 After more than a century, should we still care about \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the future\u00e2\u20ac\u009d?<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Are negativity, nihilism, cynicism and irony useful ethics, or simply more politics of the privileged?<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 What sort of creativity can come out of being liberated from the future?<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 How do we negotiate the tension that exists between an oppressive future in the present and making the present our<br \/>\nterrain of struggle in order to (re)build community?<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 What sort of non\u00e2\u20ac\u0090market value can co\u00e2\u20ac\u0090emerge \u00e2\u20ac\u0153without a future\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and the refusal of neoliberal resilience\/positivity?<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 What kind of feminist ethics can we create by differently orienting ourselves to the future?<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Is the notion of Zero Future frightening, encouraging or something else?<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 How should we, or ought we, embrace together Zero Future?<br \/>\nSubmissions<br \/>\nInterested persons should submit a 250\u00e2\u20ac\u0090word abstract including a title, a short bio and contact information to Prof. Carrie<br \/>\nRentschler, Director, Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, at <a href=\"mailto:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/igsf\/\"><\/a>info.igsf@mcgill.ca&#8221;>info.igsf@mcgill.ca<\/a> by Monday April 14, 2014. .<br \/>\nAs the subject line of your email, please include your last name followed by: Zero Future Conference (eg: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Smith: Abstract Zero<br \/>\nFuture Conference\u00e2\u20ac\u009d). All abstracts must be submitted electronically, in PDF format.<\/p>\n<p>More info:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/igsf\/<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/htmlles.net\">http:\/\/htmlles.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/htmlles11.tumblr.com\/\">http:\/\/htmlles11.tumblr.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call for entries Deadline: 14 April 2014 ZERO FUTURE: is the future obsolete? 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