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Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 16:51:03 +1100
From: Contretemps <contretemps-AT-mail.usyd.edu.au>
Subject: SPOON-ANN: Call for Papers -- Contretemps 6: Democratic Futures


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Contretemps: An Online Journal of Philosophy

http://www.usyd.edu.au/contretemps

Call for Papers -- Contretemps 6: Democratic Futures

Calls for democracy today come from various quarters—national,
subnational, and supranational. Never before has the idea of democracy
been so popular. Yet as the current attempts to impose democracy at
gunpoint in the Middle East bear out, a functional democracy requires
more than just the formal presence of institutions—it requires a
liberated citizenry inspired by the dream of democratic futures. This
issue of Contretemps invites provocative submissions on the theme of
democratic futures. What are the futural dimensions of democratic
experience, and how does this temporality affect political life in
general? If the call for democracy is traversed by dynamics of hope and
becoming, how well are these served by current political-economic
institutions? Does the future of democracy require a rethinking of modern
forms of political representation? How does the futural dimension of
democratic experience indicate a horizon for other forms of democracy to
come? How might we imagine a democracy that transcends nations, borders,
even the limits of the possible? How might the dream of democracy enable
us to renegotiate our familiar institutions, public and private spaces,
things and experiences, allowing for a rethinking of the ‘we’
that is  shared? Today, the politics of fear works to smother the utopian
impulses that fired the democratic movements of the later twentieth
century. What might be the spark that reignites the passion for the event
of democracy, inspiring the reinvention of democratic futures?

Deadline for submissions: 20th March 2005

Please direct all enquiries and submissions to
contretemps-AT-mail.usyd.edu.au
For more information (including submission guidelines), visit Contretemps
at

http://www.usyd.edu.au/contretemps


   

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