[Discussion] Retro-Futures

[gonul@bilkent.edu.tr]

SPECIAL ISSUE OF RHIZOMES: CULTURAL STUDIES IN EMERGING KNOWLEDGE 

www.rhizomes.net 

"RETRO-FUTURES" (Spring 2004) 

A special issue on historic utopias, nostalgic speculations, = 
neo-traditions, modern primitives, archaic science fictions, = 
being/becoming, new urbanism, invented traditions, primitivism, = 
futurism, retro fashion, futurology, back to basics, neo-paganism, = 
origin/destiny, simplicity, the classics, the space age, and any other = 
combination of the old and the new is under construction at = 
 Testing the boundaries of cutting-edge and the = 
timeless, the newfangled and the obsolete, "Retro-Futures" will peer = 
into the culture and politics of temporality and everyday life. 

Send email attachment, html/web pages to davinheckman@hotmail.com and = 
dheckman@reconstruction.ws or see our contact page: 

http://www.rhizomes.net/files/contact.html 


Abstracts by November 15th, 2003. Papers by January 15th, 2004 

We at Rhizomes oppose the idea that knowledge must grow in a tree = 
structure from previously accepted ideas. New thinking need not follow = 
established patterns. 

Rhizomes promotes experimental work located outside current disciplines, = 
work that has no proper location. As our name suggests, works written in = 
the spirit of Deleuzian approaches are welcomed but not required. 

We are not interested in publishing texts that establish their authority = 
merely by affirming what is already believed. Instead, we encourage = 
migrations into new conceptual territories resulting from unpredictable = 
juxtapositions.