We live in a world saturated by futures. Our lives are constructed
around ideas and images about the future that are as full and as
flawed as our understandings of the past. This book is a conceptual
toolkit for thinking about the forms and functions that the future
takes. Exploring links between panic and nostalgia, waiting and
utopia, technology and messianism, prophecy and trauma, it brings
together critical meditations on the social, cultural, and
intellectual forces that create narratives and practices of the
future. The prognosticators, speculators, prophets, and visionaries
have their say here, but the emphasis is on small narratives and
forgotten conjunctures, on the connections between expectation and
experience in everyday life.In tightly linked studies, the
contributors excavate forgotten and emergent futures of art,
religion, technology, economics, and politics. They trace hidden
histories of science fiction, futurism, and millennialism and break
down barriers between far-flung cultural spheres. From the
boardrooms of Silicon Valley to the forests of Java and from the
literary salons of Tokyo to the roadside cafes of the Nevada
desert, the authors stitch together the disparate images and
stories of futures past and present. Histories of the Future is
further punctuated by three interludes: a thought-provoking game
that invites players to fashion future narratives of their own, a
metafiction by renowned novelist Jonathan Lethem, and a remarkable
graphic research tool: a timeline of timelines. Contributors. Sasha
Archibald, Susan Harding, Jamer Hunt, Pamela Jackson, Susan
Lepselter, Jonathan Lethem, Joseph Masco, Christopher Newfield,
Elizabeth Pollman, Vicente Rafael, Daniel Rosenberg, Miryam Sas,
Kathleen Stewart, Anna Tsing
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