FYI: Deleuze Conference CFP!

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Second Annual Boston Area Deleuze Reading Group Conference: Deleuze, Guattari, and Territoriality

Co-Sponsored by the WPI Department of Humanities and Arts

Worcester Polytechnic Institute 

303 Congress St 

Boston Seaport 

Boston, MA

Sept 27-29, 2018

The concept of ‘territory’, and the related concepts of ‘deterritorialization’ and ‘reterritorialization,’ play a central role in Deleuze’s work with Guattari. For Deleuze and Guattari, our identities, desires, and bodies form territories and sites for deterritorialization and reterritorialization. The larger social world is also a territory and so is subject to these forces as well (as are social structures and social institutions). These concepts function (at least in part), for Deleuze and Guattari as a means to connect their critique of capitalism with their analysis of psychoanalysis and their use of these concepts shifts over time (between Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus for instance) as their thinking develops.  The Second annual Boston Area Deleuze Reading Group Conference takes these notions as the central theme of its 2018 conference.

Some possible topics include (but are not limited too): 

Space, place, and territory

Territoriality and power

Territory, function, and meaning

Territory and writing

Deterritorialization and the critique of capitalism

Deterritorialization and psychoanalysis

The deterritorialized body

Territorialization, deterritorialization, reterritorialization and art

Sex/gender/race and territoriality

Territoriality and climate change

Deterritorialization and Neoliberalism

Critiques of Deleuze and Guattari’s conception of deterritorialization

We invite abstracts (of between 300 and 500 words) on the above topics or any other topic relating to these concepts.  Abstracts are due by May 20th. Decisions by June 1. 

Please send abstracts to

Geoff Pfeifer (gpfe...@wpi.edu) and Ed McGushin (emcg...@stonehill.edu)