How we render history is influenced by the mediation of material artifacts and memory. To construct a history is to shape a collection of events into a narrative that invites meaning. The translation of a past event’s public record to a history is a kind of diegetic performance. How might these sentiments serve a vision of the future and act as a metonym of the present? How might these sentiments clarify our formulations of history? In sum, retrofuturistic aesthetic, practice, and theory reanimates temporal signs, like those kitschy relics of bygone eras, making elusive time recoverable, graspable, and governable.

Consequently, we may ask, what did prior artists, innovators, and intellectuals envision of their future, as well as, how do we remember earlier versions of the future? How are these ideations constructed? What do their speculations signal about the thresholds of the imaginary? Additionally, of the futuristic-retro, we may ask, what attachments have we formed with relics of the past.

This lens interrogates the memory of the imagined future. In addition to an analysis of the imagined future, retrofuturism has a meta component of engagement. All subjects Allied Health Cardiology & Cardiovascular Medicine Dentistry Emergency Medicine & Critical Care Endocrinology & Metabolism Environmental Science General Medicine Geriatrics Infectious Diseases Medico-legal Neurology Nursing Nutrition Obstetrics & Gynecology Oncology Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine Otolaryngology Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care Pediatrics Pharmacology & Toxicology Psychiatry & Psychology Public Health Pulmonary & Respiratory Medicine Radiology Research Methods & Evaluation Rheumatology Surgery Tropical Medicine Veterinary Medicine Cell Biology Clinical Biochemistry Environmental Science Life Sciences Neuroscience Pharmacology & Toxicology Biomedical Engineering Engineering & Computing Environmental Engineering Materials Science Anthropology & Archaeology Communication & Media Studies Criminology & Criminal Justice Cultural Studies Economics & Development Education Environmental Studies Ethnic Studies Family Studies Gender Studies Geography Gerontology & Aging Group Studies History Information Science Interpersonal Violence Language & Linguistics Law Management & Organization Studies Marketing & Hospitality Music Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution Philosophy Politics & International Relations Psychoanalysis Psychology & Counseling Public Administration Regional Studies Religion Research Methods & Evaluation Science & Society Studies Social Work & Social Policy Sociology Special Education Urban Studies & Planning BROWSE JOURNALSĪs a conceptual framework, retrofuturism invites recognition of the agency inherent in a reanimation of the past.

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