Nietzsche, Foucault, Deleuze: Re-Thinking War in the 21st Century
A really interesting call for papers and conference coming up in London, Ontario soon. Absolutely wish I could make it, though with any luck the organizers (hint, hint!) will have some recordings or texts made available after. Featuring two of the most interesting writers on the linkages between modern war and contemporary philosophy: Manav Guha (Reimagining War in the 21st Century: From Clausewitz to Network-Centric Warfare) and Julian Reid (The Biopolitics of the War on Terror: Life Struggles, Liberal Modernity and the Defence of Logistical Societies).
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The Nietzsche Workshop @ Western:
"Nietzsche, Foucault, Deleuze: Re-Thinking War in the 21st Century"
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Faculty of Social Science, Dean’s Boardroom
The University of Western Ontario
9am-5pm
"The present European War is sometimes closely connected with Nietzsche. It is even called Nietzsche in Action, or the Euro-Nietzschean War" (Salter, 1917).
The theme of the second Nietzsche Workshop @ Western brings Salter’s early statement to bear on the (perhaps novel) forms of war characteristic of the 21st century. The aim of this workshop (more specifically) is to investigate the problematic relation between war in the bio-technological era and the critical socio-political insights of Nietzsche and his two most influential successors, the post-Nietzscheans Foucault and Deleuze.
Topics of interest to the conference would include:
• the concept of polemos (war) in Nietzsche, Foucault and/or Deleuze
• the militarization of peace
• war, terror, and bio-politics
• war and/as the ‘becoming’ of life
• the ‘subject’ of war and/or terror
• new tactics of war and/or terror
Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Manabrata Guha, author of Reimagining War in the 21st Century: From Clausewitz to Network-Centric Warfare (Routledge 2010), Assistant Professor of International Security and Strategic Studies at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, India, and
Dr. Julian Reid, author of The Biopolitics of the War on Terror (Manchester University Press, 2007), co-author of The Liberal Way of War: Killing to Make Life Live (Routledge, 2009), Lecturer in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, UK.
Abstracts of no more than 250 words are to be sent to Nandita Biswas Mellamphy c/o the.nietzsche.network[at]gmail.com no later than April 10, 2010. For more information, visit the Nietzsche Netwørk on facebook, at http://groups.to/nietzsche (where links to the Nietzsche Worskhop @ Western event-page and other pertinent information can be found).
