Futures examines the relevance of futures studies to literary
studies. It demonstrates how the growing interest in futures
thinking is opening up multidisciplinary conversations and
initiatives, examining historical and contemporary forms of futures
knowledge, the methodologies and technologies of futures expertise,
and the role played by different institutions on legitimising,
deploying, and controlling anticipatory practices. Bringing
together emerging perspectives on the future from diverse
disciplinary perspectives including critical theory, design,
anthropology, sociology, politics, and history, this book places
the provocation of power at the heart of the book through an
investigation of futures as both objects of science and objects of
the human imagination, creativity, and will. A multidisciplinary
team of contributors challenge and debate the varied ways in which
futures are conjured and constructed, exploring issues as diverse
as the utopian imagination, history and philosophy, literary and
political manifestos, artefacts and design fictions, and forms of
technological and financial forecasting, big data, climate
modelling, and scenarios. The book positions the future as a
question of power, of representations and counter-representations,
and forms of struggle over future imaginaries. Forms of
futures-making depend on complex processes of envisioning and
embodiment. Each chapter investigates the critical vocabularies,
genres, and representational methods - narrative, quantitative,
visual, and material - of futures-making as deeply contested fields
in cultural and social life.
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