{"id":5,"date":"2017-02-23T19:06:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T19:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2017-04-20T14:36:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T14:36:47","slug":"the-big-no","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big No"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheWhat does no<\/em> say? Who and what says no<\/em>?<\/p>\n

No<\/em>\u2019s eruptive force transforms the argumentative landscape. From two-year old children to mature nation-states, the interruptive immediacy of naysaying can occur at surprising and inconvenient moments. The ability to refuse emerges early and maintains its appeal and power. In cultures of capitalist consumption, no<\/em> has the power to defend and upend assumptions of order and propriety. From Thoreau to Gandhi to Marcuse, the will to nothing has provided a source of individual and collective creation.<\/p>\n

No<\/em> can be a language of protest and overcoming. Its power operates across lines of disciplines and ideology, across modes of writing and the refusal to write. Negation can resist or avoid authority, or can identify and highlight forces which insist on forms of complicity and agreement. The lines between different forms\u2014the conservative no,<\/em> the creative no,<\/em> the no<\/em> of the striker or dissident\u2014deny the clarity of lines of ideology or identity. No<\/em> also brings about its own failures and dangers: of inaction, of regret, of retribution.<\/p>\n

Plenary speakers<\/a> include Joshua Clover<\/strong>, Katerina Kolozova<\/strong>, Fran\u00e7ois Laruelle<\/strong>, Ariana Reines<\/strong>, and Frank B. Wilderson III<\/strong><\/p>\n

#c21bigno<\/p>\n

Conference Poster (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n

C21 website<\/a><\/p>\n

The Big No conference is supported by the UWM College of Letters & Science and the UW System William F. Vilas Trust.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What does no say? Who and what says no? No\u2019s eruptive force transforms the argumentative landscape. From two-year old children to mature nation-states, the interruptive immediacy of naysaying can occur at surprising and inconvenient moments. The ability to refuse emerges early and maintains its appeal and power. In cultures of capitalist consumption, no has the … Continue reading The Big No<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P8pr2T-5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12,"url":"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/cfp\/","url_meta":{"origin":5,"position":0},"title":"CFP","author":"c21@uwm.edu","date":"February 23, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"What does no say? Who and what says no? No\u2019s eruptive force transforms the argumentative landscape. From two-year old children to mature nation-states, the interruptive immediacy of naysaying can occur at surprising and inconvenient moments. The ability to refuse emerges early and maintains its appeal and power. In cultures of\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"The Big No logo","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/TheBigNo230.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}