Lines of Flight: The Deleuzian Text
‘a fibre strung across borderlines constitutes a line of flight or of deterritorialization’
A One-Day Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference
Friday 5th September 2008
English Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University
Keynote Speaker:
Ian Buchanan, Professor of Critical and Cultural Theory in the School of English, Communication, and Philosophy, Cardiff University.
‘It is never the beginning or the end which are interesting; the beginning and the end are points. What is interesting is the middle’ Dialogues II, p.39
For Gilles Deleuze, the real potential of a text lies in process, in its lines of flight. The artist’s ability to take up the ‘interrupted line’ in the middle mobilises a becoming through art, a creation of something new and of endless transformative potential. This interdisciplinary postgraduate conference invites students from the fields of English, Film Studies, Philosophy, Art, Performing Arts, and Cultural Studies to explore how Deleuze’s concept of the ‘line of flight’ opens up new, non-representational readings of the text, offering innovative spaces in which to actualise different art forms and ultimately different lines of thought. The following issues will be investigated:
In what ways do particular art forms operate lines of flight?
How can Deleuze be applied to contemporary texts?
How is his work relevant for literature/film/art today?
How does Deleuze’s work relate to other theoretical paradigms?
How can Deleuze be used to open up new readings of literature?
In an age in which identity politics has become so important, where can Deleuzian theory fit?
Conference fee: £20 (inc. lunch)
CFP Deadline July 15th 2008
For more information, please contact Lucy Prodgers (l.prodgers@student.mmu.ac.uk) or Deleuze Studies (deleuzestudies@mmu.ac.uk)
