*Architecture Fiction," anyone?
http://architecture.mit.edu/thresholds/CallForSubmissions/cfp38.htm
Today's future seems dark, dangerous and perhaps nearer than ever.
Whether it is awaited for hope and progress, or cursed for pre-destined change and catastrophic loss, what we think as future inscribes a limit onto the present; transforming and regulating ‘what it is,’ we ‘do’ as we know by ‘now.’
Future never arrives ‘as is.’
Without critique, future is dogma; a sovereign institution, a blind vector driving ‘what is now and present’ towards silent, monotone, and prescribed experiences.
Whether it is a revolt against the futures of the past or a curiosity towards the unknown, thresholds 38 invites methods, projects, practices and alternative kinds of critique that imagine unorthodox futures that can emerge from within this institution. (((Oh come on, how hard can THAT be?)))
We call for other futures; introductions, utopias, dystopias, heterotopias and hope; new ways to handle unknowns, uncertainties and improbables in current cultural practice; radical speculations about the realities of a world that will always be destined to political, social, financial and ecological crises.
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Submissions are due March 12, 2010. Essays are limited to 2500 words. An electronic copy of the text is required as well as 300 dpi digital files of all images. Please include a two-sentence biography of each author. thresholds invites submissions, including but not limited to scholarly works, from all fields. thresholds attempts to print only original material.
TEXT/IMAGE : Manuscripts for review should be no more than 2,500 words. Text must be formatted in accordance with The Chicago Manual of Style. Spelling should follow American convention and quotations must be translated into English. All submissions must be submitted electronically, via disc or e-mail to [email protected], and accompanied by hard copies of text and images. Text should be saved as Microsoft Word or RTF format, while any accompanying images should be sent as TIFF files with a resolution of at least 300 dpi at 8" x 9" print size. Figures should be numbered in the text. Image captions and credits must be included with submissions. It is the responsibility of the author to secure permissions for image use for both print and electronic publication and to pay any reproduction fees.
thresholds is a peer-reviewed journal.
All submissions must include a separate cover page that includes at a minimum the full name and affiliation of each author along with the telephone number and e-mail address of the author designated as the contact person.Authors' names or other identifying information should not appear on any of the manuscript pages themselves.
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Please send materials or correspondence to:
Orkan Telhan, Editor
thresholds, MIT Department of Architecture
Room 7-337
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139
inquiries, text/image submissions: [email protected]
thresholds is the biannual critical journal of architecture, art, and media culture produced by editors in the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; for more information, visit http://architecture.mit.edu/thresholds
