The 12^th International Conference of
	ISSEI	In cooperation With
	International Society for the Study of European Ideas

Section IV: Literature, Art, Music, Theatre, Culture

Workshop: Mind the Gap: Hybridity, Remediation and Discontinuity in Literature and the Arts

Chair: Hans-Peter Söder

The new sense of time of the typographic man is cinematic and sequential and pictorial.

(Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy, 1962)

Spatium, espace, Raum: The concept of space, this old crux metaphysicorum, has reasserted itself in recent cultural theory. Today, structuralism, semiotics, grammatology, theory and even grand theory have run their course; what remains is a broad understanding of postcolonial cultural studies/history. These different perspectives on the current age necessarily engender divergent characterizations. Some speak of the end of the nation state, some of a new era of global culture, social interconnectedness and transculturality. Other theorists write about entirely new kinds of spaces and spatiality. The spatialization of theoretical discourse is in itself not new. New and noteworthy is the proliferation of geographic figures of speech. The aim of this session(s) and the subsequent publication is 1) to compare previous spatial theories to the recent manifestations of spatiality, 2) to explore the impact of new-found aesthetic and medial spaces on contemporary cultural studies (with special emphasis on historical self-reflexivity).

Papers/articles might include work in the following areas:

· Spatial ideologies (Henri Lefebvre, Martin Albrow et.al.)

· Geopolitik & geographic spaces (Friedrich Ratzel, Carl Schmitt, etc.), géohistoire (Ferdinand Braudel, etc.)

· The assault on linearity (Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, et.al.)

· The logic of linearity, media theory, symbolic mediations (Friedrich Kittler, Norbert Bolz, et.al.)

· Social spaces (Michel de Certeau, Pierre Bourdieu, etc.)

· Genre theory and literary world systems (Wai Chi Dimock, et.al.)

· Traumatic spaces (Dominick LaCapra, et.al.)

· Hyperspace (Jay David Bolter, et.al.)

· Media genealogies (from Manuel Castells onward)

· Media, gender and identity (Judith Butler, Anthony Giddens)

· Paul Virilio and dromology

This panel is co-sponsored by the European Network for the Study of Globalization.

Hans-Peter Söder

Hans.Soeder@Lrz.uni-muenchen.de

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