{"id":99,"date":"2017-04-27T23:40:06","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T03:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warfrenzy.princeton.edu\/?p=99"},"modified":"2017-04-27T23:54:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T03:54:21","slug":"princeton-conjunction-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warfrenzy.princeton.edu\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"Princeton Conjunction \u2013 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Objects<\/a><\/strong>Princeton Conjunction \u2013 2012<\/strong>.\u00a0An Annual Interdisciplinary C<\/strong>onference<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

OBJECTS OF AFFECTION:<\/strong><\/a>
\n TOWARDS A MATERIOLOGY OF EMOTIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY<\/a><\/p>\n

MAY 4-6, 2O12<\/a><\/p>\n

219 AARON BURR HALL<\/a><\/p>\n

In the first issue of the journal Veshch-Objet-Gegenstand<\/em>, which appeared 90 years ago in Berlin, the avant-gardist El Lissitsky placed the object at the center of the artistic and social concerns of the day: \u201cWe have called our review Object because for us art means the creation of new \u2018objects.\u2019 \u2026 Every organized work\u2014be it a house, a poem or a picture\u2014is an object with a purpose; it is not meant to lead people away from life but to help them to organize it. \u2026 Abandon declarations and refutations as soon as possible, make objects!\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Ultimately, only three issues of Veshch-Objet-Gegenstand<\/em> would be published, but the journal\u2019s project to cultivate object as a primary tool of social organization clearly touched upon broader concerns of its time. At the end of the 1920s, Sergei Tret\u2019iakov, a leading theorist of Russian production art, similarly insisted on abandoning the traditional fascination with individual trials and tribulations and to concentrate instead on the biography of the object that proceeds \u201cthrough the system of people.\u201d Only such a biography, Tret\u2019iakov maintained, can teach us about \u201cthe social significance of an emotion by considering its effect on the object being made.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Taking the Russian avant-garde\u2019s concern with the material life of emotions as our starting point, the conference brings together an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars working at the intersection between studies of affect and studies of material culture. In the last decade, these two crucial strands of social inquiry have shifted the focus of analytic attention away from the individual or collective subject towards emotional states and material substances. These interests in the affective and the tangible as such have helped to foreground processes, conditions, and phenomena that are relatively autonomous from the individuals or social groups that originally produced them. Thus interrogating traditional notions of subjective agency, various scholars have drawn our attention to \u201ca conative nature\u201d of things (Jane Bennet), to \u201caffective intensities\u201d (Brian Massumi), or to textural perception (Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick) \u2013 to name just a few of these interventions \u2013 in order to pose questions that fall outside of dominant frameworks for understanding the epistemology of power.<\/a><\/p>\n

Despite their growing importance, however, these diverse methods and concepts for mapping the emotive biographies of things have not yet been in a direct dialogue with one another. By focusing on the material dimensions of affect and, conversely, the emotional components of object formation, this conference aims to bridge this gap.<\/a><\/p>\n

Program Committee<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Serguei Oushakine\u00a0(Slavic Languages and Literatures; Anthropology, Princeton U)<\/a>
\nAnna Katsnelson\u00a0(Slavic Languages & Literatures, Princeton U)<\/a>
\nDavid Leheny\u00a0(East Asian Studies, Princeton U)<\/a>
\nAnson Rabinbach\u00a0(Department of History, Princeton U)<\/a>
\nGayle Salamon\u00a0(Department of English, Princeton U)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Princeton Conjunction \u2013 2012.\u00a0An Annual Interdisciplinary Conference OBJECTS OF AFFECTION: TOWARDS A MATERIOLOGY OF EMOTIONS PRINCETON UNIVERSITY MAY 4-6, 2O12 219 AARON BURR HALL In the first issue of the journal Veshch-Objet-Gegenstand, which appeared 90 years ago in Berlin, the avant-gardist El Lissitsky placed the object at the center of the artistic and social concerns … Continue reading “Princeton Conjunction \u2013 2012”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1801,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p85oAQ-1B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warfrenzy.princeton.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warfrenzy.princeton.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warfrenzy.princeton.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warfrenzy.princeton.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1801"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warfrenzy.princeton.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/warfrenzy.princeton.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/warfrenzy.princeton.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warfrenzy.princeton.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warfrenzy.princeton.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warfrenzy.princeton.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}