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SUMMARY:Writing Itself - Speaker to be confirmed
DTSTART:20140401T080000Z
DTEND:20140401T170000Z
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DESCRIPTION:http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25043\nIn ‘When Things St
 rike Back’ Bruno Latour takes issue with the traditional narrative accor
 ding to which the laboratory offers the most impartial conditions for the 
 disinterested mastery of its objects of investigation\, and tells in its p
 lace a story in which a laboratory creates the conditions in which objects
  are rendered ‘able to object to the utterances that we make about them
 ’. This conference will bring together researchers with a range of disci
 plinary backgrounds (including literary studies\, philosophy\, theology\, 
 history\, law) with research interests in writing of different kinds to re
 flect on the kinds of conditions that can allow or enable writing to make 
 this kind of objection. How might we enable writing of different kinds to 
 object\, to demonstrate its agency\, to take issue with the things that we
  say about it\, with what it seems to say or what we want it to say? Quest
 ions that participants might like to address include:\n\n- What are the co
 nditions of possibility of giving an account of the efficacy of writing?\n
 - What is the relationship between the materiality of writing and its part
 icular intervention into the world?\n- How might we understand relationshi
 ps between efficacious writing and efficacious speech? Is the efficacy of 
 writing different from that of incantation or of performative utterances?\
 n- Are there gains or losses to thinking of any one mode of efficacious la
 nguage as a model for another? And what are the consequences of these cons
 iderations for our own writing practices?\n- What are the effects of the b
 ringing of writing into focus as a topic of study for our understanding of
  the relationship of writing to other kinds of epistemic activity?\n- What
  are the different kinds of conceptual work that can be carried out by the
  different concepts—among them rhetoric\, poiesis\, style\, idiom\, trop
 e\, figure\, grammar\, syntax\, font\, character\, medium\, form—with wh
 ich we attempt to think about writing\, and what might they neglect?\n- Wh
 at do different ways of thinking about writing enable us to know\, and how
  does this knowledge in turn inform our choices as to what and how we writ
 e?\n\n\n
LOCATION:CRASSH\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, CB3 
 9DP
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