LoF22: Laws of Form 2022 University of Liverpool Liverpool, UK, August 4-6, 2022 |
Conference website | https://lof50.com/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lof22 |
Abstract registration deadline | February 28, 2022 |
Submission deadline | June 30, 2022 |
LoF22
The state of ultimate wisdom … provides a nucleus for a calculus of love, where distinctions are suspended and all is one. Spencer Brown has made a major step in this direction, and his book should be in the hands of all young people—no lower age limit required.
Heinz von Foerster, Review of Laws of Form in The Last Whole Earth Catalogue, 1971
Does Laws of Form by George Spencer-Brown provide a map of the territory of potentiality?
Does it encourage us to accept or to avoid voids?
Does it lead us to realising nothing as a thing, or does it lead us to no-thing?
What can Laws of Form offer us today? What are the possibilities to which it points?
How can Laws of Form help us map the presence or absence of the unmarked state in hitherto unexplored fields? Concomitantly, what are the fundamental distinctions in those fields and how are those distinctions related to a clearing from which they arise?
What has it already helped people to realise so far?
And how should we evaluate the larger corpus of Spencer-Brown’s work in mathematics, visionary philosophy, literature, and historiography?
Submissions for papers, panel sessions, interactive presentations or workshops, performance sessions, and creative contributions inspired by George Spencer-Brown’s work including but not limited to Laws of Form are sought from participants keen to contribute to LoF22, and participate in a celebration of Spencer-Brown’s work on mapping the ‘original mystery’ of the ‘once and future’ coming-into-being of creation – in the here and now.
There are no fees for attending the conference, for giving a presentation, or for submitting a synopsis of your paper. Facilities for giving presentations by video link will be available for those who, due to distance, are unable to attend in person. Presentations will be recorded and made available online. It is intended that, after the conference, as with LoF50, the papers will be compiled into a book.
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LoF22 is being organised in cooperation with West Den Haag, an international platform for contemporary art. www.westdenhaag.nl