CfP: ACLA Seminar: Alien Capital

[William Ryan]

No. The alien gold must be true - it was on the BBC. See 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14827624
And nice to know that specialists in Comparative Literature want to talk 
about it.
Jerry Goldsmith wrote the music for Alien. The 'audible [aural?] 
connotations' are everywhere.

Will Ryan
Non-resident alien

On 01/11/2013 14:44, Anthony Anemone wrote:
> Is this a joke?
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:31 PM, Josh Alvizu <joshua.alvizu at yale.edu 
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto:joshua.alvizu at yale.edu>)
>     Jason Groves, Yale University (jason.groves at yale.edu
>     <mailto: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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