《未来建筑与城市研究》征稿启事

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客座编辑：迈克尔·海斯（K. Michael Hays）

在瓦尔特·本雅明（Walter Benjamin）的《历史哲学论纲》（Theses on the Philosophy of History）中，“唯物主义历史编纂”（materialistic historiography）这一概念是对传统历史主义“因果链”的否定，并成为本雅明对书写历史/历史编纂问题性的总概括——即历史是对记忆的痕迹、遗留物和链条的生产。“唯物主义”这一形容词唤起了一种技术性，这种技术性涉及感知和记忆程序，而这些程序先于历史编纂者对历史谱系图的强烈干预、错置和重写，这种标记和书写的努力可能——仅仅是可能，且只有微弱的弥赛亚色彩——为可能的未来建立可能的框架。

《未来建筑与城市研究》邀请探索唯物主义历史编纂的案例和方法，通过细读研究对象及其可能性条件，超越对建筑、使用者身份和政治宣言的再现和模仿。我们认识到，尽管批判理论在20世纪90年代被所谓的文化研究所取代，这使得建筑和城市主义的社会紧迫感得以复苏，但新实用主义、身份政治、批判性的总结和新历史主义的实际结果却是回归日常、身体、决定性背景等旧人文主义主题，并普遍忽视且难以考察到社会想象中所铭刻的真实的唯物主义基础。

在《未来建筑与城市研究》即将发布的数期中，我们设想在“唯物主义历史编纂”框架内构思和写作。我们欢迎理论与实践相结合的混合建构和模式，例如，对建筑项目的症候性阅读可以既关注事实，也关注气候变化的形式。在研究移民运动时，反思仅凭保留部分遗留痕迹的档案进行研究所存在的问题。我们期待有多种“异历史书写”——即其他形式的历史记录——来分析或质疑我们对当前问题的表述；扩展对当前历史实践的思考方式。

Virtual Special Issue

Guest Editor: K. Michael Hays

In Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History, the phrase “materialistic historiography” appears as the negation of traditional historicism’s “causal nexus” and the name of Benjamin’s overall problematique of writing history—historiography—as the production of memory traces, remnants, and chains. The adjective “materialistic” conjures a technicity of perceptual and mnemonic programs, installed prior to the history-grapher’s aggressive interruption, dislocation, and reinscription of the genealogical diagram, an effort of marking and scripting which might— just possibly, and only weakly messianically—set up possible frameworks for possible futures.

Perspectives in Architecture and Urbanism invites explorations of the examples and methods of materialistic historiography which, through close readings of objects and their conditions of possibility, move beyond the merely representational and mimetic conception of buildings, user identities, and professed politics. We recognize that while the overtaking of critical theory by so-called cultural studies in the 1990s rejuvenated architecture and urbanism’s sense of social urgency, the actual result of neopragmatism, identity politics, extraction critique, and new historicism was the return to old humanist motifs of the everyday, the body, the determinant context, and the general ignoring of the actual materialistic basis of the social imaginary already inscribed but undetectable to these methods.

For upcoming issues of Perspectives in Architecture and Urbanism, we imagine writings conceived and produced in the frame of “materialistic historiography.” We welcome the possibility of hybrid constructions and models of theory and practice in which, for example, a symptomatic reading of an architectural project confronts not just the fact but the forms of climate change. Where a study of the movements of migration ponders the issue of research in an archive comprising only traces of things left behind. We hope for multiple “allo-history-graphics”—other iterations of historical inscription—that analyze or take issue with our formulation of the current problematic; that expand other ways of thinking about the present practice of history.

How to submit

We invite all those interested to submit materials to the Editorial Office at [email protected] using as subject line:

CFP Historiography AUTHOR’S SURNAME abstract

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Submissions should contain:

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The deadline for submission is January 20^th, 2025. Selected authors will be notified by the Editorial Office of Perspectives in Architecture and Urbanism by February 20^th, 2025.

Selected authors will be invited to present a preliminary draft of their paper (approximately 2,500 words) at an upcoming international seminar hosted by the College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP) of Tongji University in Shanghai (May/June 2025, in-person and online).

Full papers must be submitted by August 31^st, 2025, following the editorial guidelines of the journal (https://www.keaipublishing.com/en/journals/perspectives-in-architecture-and-urbanism/guide-for-authors/).

Selected manuscripts will undergo a double-blind review process and will receive additional feedback from the Guest Editor. Accepted papers will be published online in regular issues of the journal as soon as the review and editing processes are completed. Published texts will be later collected into a virtual special issue, accessible on the journal’s website.

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