CfP: ACLA Seminar: Alien Capital

[Anthony Anemone]

Is this a joke?


On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:31 PM, Josh Alvizu <joshua.alvizu at yale.edu>wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Please see below our CfP for our seminar on 'Alien Capital' at this year's
> ACLA Annual Meeting (March 20-23, 2014, NYU). Abstracts are due November 15
> through the centralized ACLA portal (link below). Please feel free to
> contact us for more information.
>
> Best,
>
> Josh Alvizu, Yale University (joshua.alvizu at yale.edu)
> Jason Groves, Yale University (jason.groves at yale.edu)
>
>
>
> *Alien Capital*
>
> *American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting*
> *March 20-23, 2014, New York University*
>
> “Fremdkapital,” literally “outside” or “borrowed” capital, constitutes one
> of the primary elements of finance capitalism. Yet the recent discovery of
> the extra-terrestrial origin of gold makes audible another connotation:
> alien capital. This finding suggests that the scale of monetary exchange
> and circulation extends beyond the global and into the galactic. This
> seminar therefore proposes to explore alien capital in all of its potential
> guises, from the socio-economic conditions it might engender to the
> derangement of scale it provokes.
>
> This seminar will be preoccupied primarily with the following questions:
> What happens when we shift from a local to a global to an extraterrestrial
> sense of capital? If modernity can be indexed to capital, if postmodernity
> can be indexed to neoliberal capital, can we link the future to alien
> capital? How has alien capital been imagined and can it offer an
> alternative to the ravages of terrestrial capital? Can alien capital
> indicate not only the extraterrestrial origin of capital but also a new
> order of capital?
>
> What are some of the forms of alien capital— including but not limited to
> Bataille’s solar economy, the meteors Marx ruminates over in his doctoral
> dissertation on Epicurus, the militarization of space in Kluge— and how do
> they implicitly critique capital? Why does alien capital increasingly
> matter, and how has it been materialized?
>
> http://acla.org/acla2014/alien-capital/
> Please submit paper proposals (max. 250 words) by November 15, 2013 at:
> http://www.acla.org/submit/
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