Study of the future is an important new field in anthropology.
Building on a philosophical tradition running from Aristotle
through Heidegger to Schatzki, this book presents the concept of
'orientations' as a way to study everyday life. It analyses six
main orientations - anticipation, expectation, speculation,
potentiality, hope, and destiny - which represent different ways in
which the future may affect our present. While orientations entail
planning towards and imagining the future, they also often involve
the collapse or exhaustion of those efforts: moments where hope may
turn to apathy, frustrated planning to disillusion, and imagination
to fatigue. By examining these orientations at different points,
the authors argue for an anthropology that takes fuller account of
the teleologies of action.
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