CURE Beyond Remedy: The Illusions and Limits of the Ultimate Fix

Cure: The Ideal and the Impossible

What is a "cure"? It's a tempting concept, offering a promise of permanent resolution. But as this conference delves, the notion of cure is a deceptive illusion.

"Cures" often define themselves as the eradication of a problem, leading to a paradoxical state of cessation and unending effectiveness. However, this logic unwittingly breeds resistance, transforming those destined for erasure into eternal targets of an unyielding pursuit.

Cure: Beyond Medical Metaphors

The obsession with "cures" extends beyond medicine, infecting fields as diverse as politics and psychoanalysis. In politics, revolutions promise to wipe out existing conditions, while in psychoanalysis, the search for termination and cure remains a dominant concern.

Even the concept of "holism," often touted as a preferable alternative to piecemeal cures, paradoxically risks naturalizing an all-encompassing ideal of health that threatens to absorb every deviation into a monolithic whole.

Cure: Interrogating Limits and Alternatives

Our 2025 conference, CURE: Beyond Remedy, aims to expose the multifaceted nature of "cures," examining their limitations and exploring alternative paradigms for addressing suffering and injustice. We invite submissions that interrogate:

• The (in)sufficiency of cure
• Meta-logics of cure
• Remediation and beyond

As we navigate an unbearable reality, where so much demands cessation, we must question the limits and boundaries of the "cure." This conference will explore other conceptions of resolution and remediation, beyond the familiar frameworks that have often led to devastating consequences.

"A cure is not the same as a reconciliation, a resolution, a mourning, or a destruction. A cure is always problematic."

- Tracy McNulty, Keynote Speaker

Call for Abstracts

Submit your abstracts (300 words) by February 15, 2025, to ucicomplit2025conference.com.