Document Type
Editorial
Abstract
[First paragraph]
Two years ago, Reconstruction was in the air, a shiftless idea about what academic publishing might become. We were discomforted by what we saw as potential being shaped by those whose potential had already been realized, and depressed by the conservatism and stodginess which told us that the paths to knowledge had already been blazed by years of academic tradition. An academic environment of blazing rhetoric and high-mindedness told us that we should change the world and question authority, teasing us with buzzwords and catchphrases like "community," "differánce," "heterotopia," and "scholarly communities," but all the while telling us to limit our participation to venues which have already been established, defined, and respected -- in other words -- screwed to the floor.
Repository Citation
Heckman, Davin. "Reconstructing Year One." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 2, no. 4, 2002, pp. 1–2. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol2/iss4/1