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Cairns campus of James Cook University in Cairns, Queensland. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-">The 2018 conference aims to promote the use of innovative formats
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Link to conference website: <a href="https://www.aasconf.org/2018/" target="_blank" id="LPlnk728892" previewremoved="true"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.aasconf.org/2018/</span></a><br>
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this year’s conference "Life in an age of death", and the formats, rules and instructions on the </span><a href="https://www.aasconf.org/2018/call-for-panels" target="_blank" id="LPlnk301246" previewremoved="true"><span style="color: blue; background-image: initial; background-">Call
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<span style="background-image: initial; background-">Looking forward to welcoming you to Cairns!</span><br>
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<span style="background-image: initial; background-">AAS2018 organising team</span><br>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 26.25pt; background-image: initial; background-"><b style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-">Life in an age of death</span></b><br>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 26.25pt; background-image: initial; background-"><b><span style="font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"></span></b><span style="color: rgb(15, 15, 15); font-size: 12pt;">During
the first decades of the twenty-first century, the proliferation of life as a generative possibility has become marked by the spectre of death, closure, denial and ends. Ours is an era of precarity, extinction, militarised inequality, a seemingly boundless
war on terror, the waning legitimacy of human rights, a rising consciousness of animal cruelty and consumer complicity in killing and suffering, and the global closure of decolonial and socialist windows of emancipation. Artificial intelligence and post-human
technology-flesh interventions have become sources of existential threat to be secured against, rather than means of freeing, or otherwise expanding life. Mbembe (2003) first developed the notion of necropolitics in relation to ‘assemblages of death’, zones
where technology, economy and social structures bind together to reproduce patterns of extreme violence. Following Foucault, he envisaged a distribution of the world into life zones and death zones. While we can readily identify zones of life and death on
these terms, the imaginaries of death have increasingly colonised life zones.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 26.25pt; background-image: initial; background-"><span style="font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: rgb(15, 15, 15);">This conference seeks to embrace this moment in history in all its roiling complexity, challenge, and specificity.
It asks what accounts for this current interest in the spectre of Death in the anthropological imagination? What sorts of life—social, cultural, technological, creative—emerge in spaces pregnant with death and other life-ending spectres? What new horizons
of fear, hope and possibility emerge? What kinds of new social formations, subjectivities and cultural imaginaries? What social and cultural forms might an affirmative biopolitics, where the power of life is regained from the spectre of death, take? What new
strategies of engagement, activism and refusal?</span></p>
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<div class="PlainText"><span style="font-family:Corbel,sans-serif">Dr Robin Rodd</span></div>
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<div class="PlainText"><span style="font-family:Corbel,sans-serif">James Cook University</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family:Corbel,sans-serif"></span><span style="font-family:Corbel,sans-serif">Townsville, Qld, Australia, 4811</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family:Corbel,sans-serif"></span><span style="font-family:Corbel,sans-serif">e: robin.rodd@jcu.edu.au</span></div>
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