HOMO FUTURIS: http://www.vooruit.be/reeks/21/
andcompany&Co.: COSMIC COMMUNAUTS: The future is now, but how did we get here? Cosmic communauts are time-travellers searching for all our yesterdayâs tomorrows. This lecture is a performance is a concert about the history of the future in the 20^th century. Today we know: The armâs race was a space race, the cold war an international cover-up to colonize outer-space and our planet finally turned into a global free-trade-zone to get fit for cosmic commerce. This future-drama is an anachronistic celebration of hopes passed and futures failed in soundsânâwords: Visit the red planet with the bolshevist Bogdanov, step in the World Communeâs interplanetary vessels with Vladimir Mayakovsky or have a chat with H.G. Wells and Lenin, the first alien in the Kremlin: âCommunist cosmonauts got contact!â Today, just like yesterday, the focus is on the figure of the alien which is threatening the old order as secret agent, unregistered migrant or a virus from outer space. Is our present haunted by ghosts of the past or visited by spirits of the future? By ancient astronauts or mutant men from another millenium? Weâre all cosmic communauts, so get ready for a strange encounter of the third kind in the fourth dimension: Time is the place to be, historyâs a mystery, back to the future on Septembre 30^th in the Domzaal. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
