Jonathon Catlin asked us to share the following call for papers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
CfP: Adorno and Identity \u2013\u00a0Virtual Workshop and Special Issue of Adorno Studies<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A virtual workshop on \u201cAdorno and Identity,\u201d with papers intended for publication in a special issue of the journal Adorno Studies<\/em>, is now accepting abstracts from potential contributors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Negative dialectics, Theodor Adorno wrote, \u201cis suspicious of all identity.\u201d Nevertheless, identity is one of the central concepts linking together Adorno\u2019s wide-ranging corpus. This issue pursues a timely and interdisciplinary revisitation of the notions of identity, the nonidentical, and negative identity in Adorno, prompted by several recent studies: Eric Oberle\u2019s Theodor Adorno and the Century of Negative Identity<\/em><\/a>, Fumi Okiji\u2019s Jazz As Critique: Adorno and Black Expression Revisited<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>and Oshrat Silberbusch\u2019s Adorno\u2019s Philosophy of the Nonidentical: Thinking as Resistance<\/em><\/a>. These works serve as a common point of departure for revisiting Adorno\u2019s thought at a moment in which identity has become a central and hotly debated concept. The goal of this issue is twofold: to use Adorno\u2019s work to develop more conceptually robust and nuanced notions of identity and nonidentity, and to advance critical theory by connecting Adorno\u2019s work to broader conversations about identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Contributors will revisit Adorno\u2019s writings on race, fascism, antisemitism, gender, and sexuality alongside his conception of subjectivity as a dialectic of identity and non-identity in his works of philosophy and writings on art, literature, and music. In particular, this issue offers an opportunity to restage missed encounters between Adorno and Black thought and music. Noting that \u201cwhat [Adorno] fails to realize is that jazz emerges from a subject constituted by the holding of contradictory positions\u201d\u2014a subject that is not self-identical\u2014Okiji\u2019s work considers jazz as a form of critical self-reflection within Black life that \u201ccreates an unstable, ever constellating gathering of difference\u201d and thereby approaches the \u201cunion of differentiation\u201d and \u201cdifference without fear\u201d that Adorno called for. Oberle\u2019s study of \u201cnegative identity\u201d highlights the contact Adorno made in exile with American sociology and racial violence and explores resonances with the rich legacy of W. E. B. Du Bois and his theorization of race as a \u201cwound in the fabric of universality.\u201d Silberbusch\u2019s philosophical study recenters the nonidentical as a powerful tool for making visible and resisting social suffering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Contributors are invited to engage with these projects and expand upon Adorno\u2019s conception of dialectics as \u201cnonidentity through identity,\u201d broadly and imaginatively conceived, and especially to consider underexplored connections between Adorno\u2019s work and ethnic and gender studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The editors of Adorno Studies <\/em>have expressed their enthusiasm for this project, and the journal\u2019s electronic format will allow the inclusion of audio-visual material such as music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Planned contributors, expanding on a previous workshop that took place at the German Studies Association annual conference in 2019 include: Asaf Angermann, Jonathon Catlin, Eric Oberle, Fumi Okiji, Oshrat Silberbusch, Martin Shuster, Sebastian Truskolaski, and Moira Weigel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Submission guidelines: <\/strong>Please submit abstracts of approximately 500 words and a short biographical note to Jonathon Catlin at jcatlin@princeton.edu<\/a> by Oct. 12, 2020<\/strong>. A virtual workshop for participants to exchange drafts and a virtual public roundtable event for broader discussion on the topic are planned for December 2020 or January 2021 at a date suitable for all invited participants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jonathon Catlin asked us to share the following call for papers: CfP: Adorno and Identity \u2013\u00a0Virtual Workshop and Special Issue …<\/p>\n