By Telos Press · Friday, September 10, 2021 CFP: Western Political Science Association Panel
Alex Stubberfield and Jennifer Lawrence
Upon the 25th anniversary of Ecocritique, we invite a conversation about the enduring relevance of critical environmental theory to understanding how political power shapes nature, culture, and the global eco/logical order. Contemporary political environmental crises highlight the necessity of unflinching scholarship revealing contradictions within extractive capitalism pointing to how social organizations purporting to act under the aegis of our collective ecological health often sustain environmental degradation. Celebrating the resonant work of Timothy W. Luke, we invite paper submissions that are inspired by the theories, methods, and provocations employed in Ecocritique: Contesting the Politics of Nature, Economy, and Culture (1997). We are interested in papers addressing critical theories of ecological modernization, the inscriptive power of accumulation regimes within environmental orders, and the promises and perils of bright green futures.
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By Telos Press · Friday, April 14, 2017 Twenty-five years after the end of the Cold War, there is arguably a crisis of democracy: not only has the transition from totalitarian communism failed to bring about liberal market capitalism, but politics in mature democracies has been becoming post-democratic. Models of authoritarianism and state capitalism are spreading in different parts of the world, while countries with long-standing democratic traditions are characterized by a rejection of the political mainstream and a turn to extremes on the far left or the far right.
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By Telos Press · Friday, February 10, 2017 Constitutional Theory as Cultural Problem:
Global Perspectives
January 19–21, 2018
New York, NY
The International Center for Critical Theory and the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute will jointly host a conference entitled “Constitutional Theory as Cultural Problem: Global Perspectives,” to be held at New York University, New York, from January 19–21, 2018.
The challenges faced by the liberal democratic model in the 21st century have made constitutional theory into an urgent topic of global concern. Both the second Iraq War and the revolutions of the Arab Spring frustrated hopes of an easy trajectory toward liberal democratic constitutional orders. If there was the hope that liberation would mean the establishment of liberal democracy, the result has been that emancipation from tyranny does not naturally lead in a particular political direction. Such a conclusion presents fundamental problems for a constitutional theory that is built around a liberal democratic model.
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By Telos Press · Wednesday, March 23, 2016 Asymmetrical Warfare:
The Centrality of the Political to the Strategic
January 14–15, 2017
New York, NY
Unconventional, nontraditional, or more precisely asymmetrical warfare has become the pervasive reality for the modern world. All realistic prognoses compellingly suggest it will remain so throughout the twenty-first century. The recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernadino were no temporary aberration, or incidents of domestic political violence, but part of an increasingly normative pattern of asymmetrical warfare against the West. These events are inextricably related to the unconventional warfare and terrorism characterized by the conflicts extending from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria to Africa. Isis, al-Qaeda, and Boko Haram have become the common coinage of political discourse and news cycles. The controversy over the very terminology of the “War on Terror,” like that over the Obama Administration’s determination to close Guantanamo, illustrate the domestic as well as foreign policy implications of such developments. Meanwhile, Europe likewise faces both overt actions and indirect consequences of asymmetrical warfare. Russia’s proxy war in Ukraine and annexation of the Crimea, together with the massive Middle Eastern refugee influx, has thrust Europe into its own highly divisive disputes over its very cultural essence, political will, and future unity.
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By Telos Press · Monday, May 4, 2015
Beyond Nostalgia:
Ethics, Politics, and the Critique of Modernity
January 15–16, 2016
New York, NY
On January 15–16, 2016, the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute will hold its annual conference in New York City. The theme of the conference will be “Beyond Nostalgia: Ethics, Politics, and the Critique of Modernity.” If you wish to participate in the conference, please send an abstract (no more than 250 words) and short c.v. to telosnyc@telosinstitute.net by August 15, 2015, and place “The 2016 Telos Conference” in the email’s subject line.
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By Telos Press · Friday, October 17, 2014  One last reminder that Monday is the deadline for submitting your abstract for next year’s Telos Conference in New York. The conference, which will take place on February 14-15, 2015, will focus on the theme of “Universal History, Philosophical History, and the Fate of Humanity.” For the full call for papers and other details, please visit the conference page at the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute website. If you wish to present a paper, send in your abstract (no more than 250 words) and a short c.v. to telosnyc@telosinstitute.net and place “The 2015 Telos Conference” in the email’s subject line.
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