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            Sign and Affectivity. Gilles Deleuze Prague Conference CFP

                        The international conference of Sign and Affectivity in the works of Gilles De
            in Prague on 7. - 8.11 2015 and is organized by the Department of Electronic Culture and S
            conference aims to introduce new perspectives on the work of French philosopher Gilles Del

            as we focus on the relationship between affectivity and semiotics, both of which play a cr
            Deleuzian thought.
                        Deleuze first used the concept of affect in his book Nietzsche and Philosophy 

            his doctoral thesis on Baruch Spinoza. Affect was associated with the term "becoming", a t
            importance for Deleuze, in his lectures on Spinoza in the 1980s, as well as in A Thousand 

            The concept of sign appears in Proust and Signs, which he later interpreted as an attempt 
            "general semiology", although, in one of many interviews Deleuze gave he said, "Everything
            is vitalistic, at least I hope it is, and amounts to a theory of signs and events" (Negoti

            The sign and semiotics as pragmatics or symptomatology also appear in Deleuze’s text on li
            is strongly connected with the concept of affect. Appropriately, the main theme of the con
            the relationship and implications between semiotics and affectivity, as articulated in Gil

            philosophy. We welcome proposals from this field of inquiry as it relates to Gilles Deleuz
            Signs and Image-Movement, Literature, Signs and Affectivity, Affect, Effect and the Power 
            "Turn to affect" in contemporary philosophy.






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            * Important dates and information

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            Closing date for submission is 15th of September 2015. Official language of the conference

            Please submit your paper in English via email deleuzeprague(zavinac)hotmail.com [ MAIL "(z
            The outline should not exceed 400 words and include the title followed by not more than fi
            You will receive letter of acceptance not later than 30th of September 2015.


            Conference fee is 80 EURO and must be paid until the end of October 2015
            information required for payment:

            account number/bank code: 27-1842600277/0100
            IBAN: CZ86 0100 0000 2718 4260 0277
            SWIFT (BIC): KOMBCZPPXXX