THINKING FEELING

critical theory, culture, feeling

18-19 MAY 2012

Supported by the Centre for Modernist Studies, the Centre for Social and Political Thought,

and the Centre for Literature and Philosophy

www.thinking-feeling-2012.blogspot.com

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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME FRIDAY 18 MAY 2012

09:30 – 10:00 Registration at Fulton reception KEYNOTE 1 – FULTON LECTURE HALL A 10:00 – 11:00

Prof Eva Illouz (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) Why Emotions are Crucial to Capitalism Chair: Dr Jennifer Cooke

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee FULTON 104

Chair: Dr Simon Mussell FULTON 107

Chair: Christos Hadjioannou 11:30 – 12:00

Dr Keston Sutherland (Sussex) Marx’s Exquisite Irony

Dr Alastair Morgan (Nottingham) What’s Wrong with a Neurochemical Self?

12:00 – 12:30

Dr Élise Derroitte (Louvain) Melancholy as Resistance

Dan Taylor (Independent) Anxiety Machines: Neoliberal Capitalism, Depression and Continuous Connection

12:30 – 13:00

Dr Benjamin Noys (Chichester) The Melancholy of Resistance: the Intervallic, Intermittency, and the Politics of Melancholia

Short film by Jonathan Isserow (Roehampton) Blue Wash: A filmic essay on melancholia

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch in the social space in Arts B, Room 274 (catered by The French Revolution) A short film by Jonathan Isserow (Roehampton), Blue Wash: A filmic essay on melancholia, will be shown on repeat in Fulton lecture hall A and in Arts B

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FRIDAY 18 MAY 2012 (continued)

KEYNOTE 2 – FULTON LECTURE HALL A 14:00 – 15:00 Prof Timothy Bewes (Brown University)

The Surge: Turning Away from Affect Chair: Dr Doug Haynes

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee FULTON 104

Chair: Annabel Haynes FULTON 107

Chair: Tim Carter FULTON 213

Chair: Arthur Willemse 15:30 – 16:00

Dr Julie Taylor (Oxford) On Holding and Being Held: Modernism, Intimacy, and Hart Crane

Joseph Maslen (Edge Hill) Patriotic Happiness in Contemporary Britain: Popular Feeling or Social Thinking?

Dr Irena Rosenthal (VU Amsterdam) Exhausted by a ‘democratic burn-out’: Confronting the Emotional Challenges of Democratic Politics

16:00 – 16:30

Niamh O’Mahony (Cork) Of what we know not are: Critical junctures in common feeling

Sheena Culley (Kingston) The Feeling of Comfort

Dr Tomasz Kitlinski (Lublin) Thinking Affects as Kristevan Revolt in Eastern Europe’s Activist Art

16:30 – 17:00

Will Harris (St Andrews) ‘What is there to know?’: Thinking and Feeling in Contemporary Poetry

Asta Zokaityte (Kent) Governing Through the Happiness Index

Doruk Tatar (Sabanci) Enjoying Political Subjects: Affective Politics of Neoliberal Conservatism in Turkey

17:00 End of Day 1

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SATURDAY 19 MAY 2012

KEYNOTE 3 – FULTON LECTURE HALL A 10:00 – 11:00

Dr Ben Highmore (University of Sussex) Mood Work Chair: Dr Doug Haynes

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee FULTON 202

Chair: Dr Julie Taylor FULTON 203

Chair: Dr Simon Mussell 11:30 – 12:00

Dr Elahe Haschemi Yekani (Humboldt) Feeling Modern: Early Black British Writing and Revolutionary Feelings

Tim Carter (Sussex) Love and Freedom in the ‘determinate system of the economy’: Thoughts on a passage from Adorno

12:00 – 12:30

Dr Ruth Charnock (Sussex) Feeling Intimate? Reading Anaïs Nin in the 1970s

Dr Sophie Djigo (CURAPP, Amiens) Feeling and Self-Transformation: A Deliberative Spirit

12:30 – 13:00

Dr Jennifer Cooke (Loughborough) Boredom and Experimental Literature

Dr Jane Elliott (King’s College London) The Horror of Interest

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch in the social space in Arts B, Room 274 (catered by The French Revolution)

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SATURDAY 19 MAY 2012 (continued)

KEYNOTE 4 – FULTON LECTURE HALL A 14:00 – 15:00 Prof Alexander Düttmann (Goldsmiths)

The Feeling of Life Chair: Dr Gordon Finlayson

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee FULTON 202

Chair: Jana Elsen FULTON 203

Chair: Dr Sara Jane Bailes 15:30 – 16:00

Christos Hadjioannou (Sussex) The ‘binding necessity’ of phenomenology: Heidegger’s turn to Stimmung

Ian Higgins (Leicester) ‘The Strange Disease of Modern Life’: A Brief History of Boredom

16:00 – 16:30

Ned Hercock (Sussex) Paul de Man against Feeling: The Political Background to How Theory Feels

George Legg (King’s College London) The Curious Case of Craigavon: New Towns, Geographies of Boredom and the Northern Irish ‘Troubles’

FULTON LECTURE HALL A 16:45 – 17:00 Closing remarks

17:00 End of Conference

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Eva Illouz is Rose Isaac Chair of Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her books include Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Love and

the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1997), Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism (2007), and Saving the Modern Soul: Therapy,

Emotions, and the Culture of Self‐Help (2008). In 2009, Die Zeit magazine selected Professor Illouz as one of twelve people most likely to ‘shape

the thought of tomorrow’. Her latest book, Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation, has just been published by Polity.

Timothy Bewes is Professor of English at Brown University. He has written three books to date, which include Cynicism and

Postmodernity (1997), Reification, or The Anxiety of Late Capitalism (2002), and The Event of Postcolonial Shame (2011). Professor Bewes has also

co-edited several collections of essays, Cultural Capitalism (2001, with Jeremy Gilbert), and Georg Lukács: The Fundamental Dissonance of

Existence (2011, with Timothy Hall).

Alexander Düttmann is Professor of Philosophy and Visual Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London. His books include Philosophy of

Exaggeration (2007), Visconti: Insights of Flesh and Blood (2008), Naive Art: An Essay on Happiness (2011), and Participation: Consciousness of

Semblance (2011). After collaborating with photographer Rut Blees Luxemburg on a book project, Professor Düttmann wrote a libretto for a

chamber opera which was performed at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.

Ben Highmore is Reader in Media Studies at the University of Sussex. In addition to the indispensible The Everyday Life Reader (2002), Dr

Highmore’s books include Michel de Certeau: Analysing Culture (2006), Ordinary Lives: Studies in Everyday Life (2010), and Cultural Feelings: Mood,

Mediation, and Cultural Politics (forthcoming).

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WHERE TO EAT IN BRIGHTON

Lucky Star Best Szechuan food in town, good value, large portions, friendly staff 101 Trafalgar Street, BN1 4ER. Tel: +441273 687064

Mange Tout French café/restaurant, good food and wine, friendly staff 81 Trafalgar Street, BN1 4EB. Tel: +441273 607270

Food for Friends All vegetarian, all good, mid-range prices 17-18 Prince Albert Street, BN1 1HF. Tel: +441273 202310

Sussex Yeoman Nice gastro pub, friendly staff, not too expensive 7 Guildford Road, BN1 3LU. Tel: +441273 327985

Terre à Terre Award-winning vegetarian gastronomy, high-end prices to match 71 East Street, BN1 1HQ. Tel: +441273 729051

The Ginger Dog Pub food elevated to fine dining, good but pricey 12 College Place, BN2 1HN. Tel: +441273 620990

Tootka’s Excellent Thai food, reasonably priced too 30 Spring Street, BN1 3EF. Tel: +441273 748071

Ottoman Cuisine Great Turkish food, open kitchen, mid-range prices 35-38 Lewes Road, BN2 3QH. Tel: +441273 605314

Pomegranate Turkish and Armenian influences, great food, mid-range prices 10 Manchester Street, BN2 1TF. Tel: +441273 628386

Carluccio’s Nice Italian restaurant, mid-range prices 1 Jubilee Street, BN1 1GE. Tel: +441273 690 493

Pompoko Simple but satisfying Japanese fare, very reasonably priced, BYOB, small space so phone ahead 110 Church Street, BN1 1UD. Tel: +447747 703072

The Office Good pub, central location, nice Thai food provided by the owners of Tootka’s 8 Sydney Street, BN1 4EN. Tel: +441273 609134

Riddle and Finns High-end fresh seafood restaurant, expensive but excellent 12b Meeting House Lane, BN1 1HB

Solera D Tapa Great tapas place, friendly staff, mid-range prices 42 Sydney Street, BN1 4EP. Tel: +441273 673966

Carlito Burrito Authentic Mexican street food for those on the move Look for the stall behind the Wood Store on Circus Street, BN2 9QF

China China Over 300 menu items, most are good, all very cheap! 33-35 Preston Street, BN1 2HP. Tel: +441273 328028

Hotel du Vin High-end modern European restaurant, excellent menu and wine 2 Ship Street, BN1 1AD. Tel: +441273 718588

Due South Top-end modern British fare, locally sourced, on the seafront 139 Kings Road Arches, Brighton Beach, BN1 2FN

There are hundreds of restaurants in Brighton, so you’ll not be short of options. Those listed are just some of the places we know to be good.

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WHERE TO DRINK IN BRIGHTON

Pubs and bars Cafés

The Great Eastern Cool pub, ales, board games, lots of different whiskeys 103 Trafalgar Street, BN1 4ER

Coffee at 33 Small independent café, excellent coffee, homemade snacks 33 Trafalgar Street, BN1 4ED

The Park Crescent Warm and cosy pub, good music, heated beer garden 31 Park Crescent, BN2 3HE

Mange tout Perfect for upmarket omelettes, breakfast and coffee 81 Trafalgar Street, BN1 4EB

The Prince Albert Popular drinking spot for music lovers, Banksy graffiti and John Peel mural adorn the outer wall 48 Trafalgar Street, BN1 4ED

Ground Great coffee, independent, two locations 36 St George’s Road, BN2 1ED (smaller of the two cafés) 84 Church Road, BN3 2EB

Northern Lights Scandinavian bar, relaxed vibe, good choice of beer/ciders 6 Little East Street, BN1 1HT

Red Roaster Independent, bohemian vibe, great coffee, cheap too 1d St James’s Street, BN2 1RE

Ten Green Bottles Quite fancy wine tasting shop/bar, very nice but not cheap 9 Jubilee Street, BN11GE

Taylor Street A chain, but probably the best one in town 28 Queens Road, BN1 3XA

The Greys Friendly staff, great pub, lots of proper Belgian beers too 105 Southover Street, BN2 9UA

Naked café Excellent range of international teas, but avoid the coffee! Meeting House Lane (aka ‘The Lanes’)

The West Hill Cool old pub, eclectic music, open ‘til 3am 67 Buckingham Place, BN1 3PQ

Marwood Quirky café overflowing with curious décor and paraphernalia 52 Ship Street, BN1 1AF

The Green Door Store Hip speakeasy/club, free entry, open ‘til 4am! Trafalgar Arches (take a right turn off Trafalgar Street just before you go under the bridge towards the train station), BN1 4FQ

Metrodeco Tea room with personality, art deco style, many great tea blends, cakes, snacks and sandwiches, open ‘til 9pm 38 St James’s Street, BN2 1JN

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