CFP: Literature and Systems Science (10/1; ACLA, 4/20/01-4/22/01)
The following CFP is for the American Comparative Literature Association conference on "Topos/Chronos" to be held in Boulder, April 20-22, 2001. Please note that the deadline for proposals has been extended to October 1. Those interested but not members of ACLA may present at the meeting on a one-time basis. Further conference information is available at
http://www.Colorado.EDU/comparativeliterature/acla2001/
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Literature and Systems Science
How does the science of systems in-/re-/deform the realm of literary theory? Does literature reflect, create, complicate, or destroy some system? Can the scientific and humanistic be integrated in a system of literature? Papers welcomed linking the literary and any of the waves of dynamical systems theories. Topics might include:
Cybernetics/information theory
General System Theory
Autopoiesis
Chaosmos, organization, synergetics
Chaos, complexity, emergence
Virtuality, posthumanity, informatics
Merology and isomorphism
Homeostasis vs. morphogenesis
Development vs. evolution
Nomothetic vs. idiographic science
Figures (the butterfly; Schroedinger's cat)
Systematicity in literary theorists
The sci/lit canon
Phenomenology as systems science
Possible worlds semantics
Ecological psychologies/philosophies
Perception/action systems
Social psychology/activity theory
Empirical Science of Literature
Expressivist poetics
Eastern/Central European literary (systems) theory
Queries welcome. Please e-mail 250-word abstracts and brief CVs by October 1 to
Christopher Kuipers
Department of English and Comparative Literature
University of California, Irvine
ckuipers@uci.edu
RA (source: CFP)