Extending
the concerns of Tacturiency (my ongoing
collaboration with Clare Thornton), our proposed conference paper, The Italic I, has been accepted for the
forthcoming conference on falling. In this proposed practice-based paper we explore the different states of potential made possible through voluntarily
surrendering to the event of a repeated fall.
Fall
narratives: an interdisciplinary perspective
18th-19th
June 2014, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
The
conference will examine the concept of the Fall
across arange of disciplines and languages. The temporal scope extends from
antiquity to contemporary times. Potential topics include:
Moral and
philosophical Falls; Fall of angels (and demons); Religious falls; Literary
falls; Cinematic falls; Contemporary falls: in finances, politics, media,
sports, entertainment; Fall of empires: historical, economical, cultural; Fall
of regimes; Fall of ideologies, ideas, world views, political/ religious movements;
The linguistics of falling; The psychology of falling.