This Friday and Saturday the Anthropology Department at UC Irvine is putting on some kind of seminar on.......
something.
http://www.anthropology.uci.edu/node/15438
"This year’s conference asks the following question: How can we theorize the future as series of artifacts, traces, or dreams from the past? In this conference, we seek to explore--from various disciplinary and thematic perspectives--ways in which planning processes evoke and provoke futures that operate on registers from the imagined to the tangible. The future as an imagined landscape becomes both a canvas for present action and a repository for dreams born in the past. Planning toward such futures involves processes of inclusion and exclusion, specific decisions tied to situated actors and moments in time. We are interested in the consequences of these processes and how plans get framed within broader goals or notions of possible futures. What goes into planning for an unknowable future? As plans come to fruition, succeed, fail, or silently pass by, what past processes and imaginings are rendered invisible by their passing? How can we evaluate the present and future as a series of consequences, intended or otherwise?"
Gary can you translate that into English. I thought I understood English as it is my native tongue, but that took me for a loop.
ReplyDeleteDon't ask me. I only have a masters degree.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds almost like one of those computer-generated academic papers. Every once in a while some grad students will write a program to generate a jargon-laden but nonsensical academic paper and then they'll start circulating it as a prank.
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