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What If? - Twenty-Two Scenarios in Search of Images (Hardcover)
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What If? - Twenty-Two Scenarios in Search of Images (Hardcover)
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An imagination of possibilities, of miscalculations, of futures
off-kilter “Probability is a chimera, its head is true,
its tail a suggestion. Futurologists attempt to compel the head to
eat the tail (ouroboros). Here, though, we will try to wag the
tail.” —Vilém Flusser Two years after his
Vampyroteuthis Infernalis, the philosopher Vilém Flusser engaged
in another thought experiment: a collection of twenty-two
“scenarios for the future” to be produced as computer-generated
media, or technical images, that would break the imaginative logjam
in conceiving the social, political, and economic future of the
universe. What If? is not just an “impossible journey” to which
Flusser invites us in the first scenario; it functions also as a
distorting mirror held up to humanity. Flusser’s disarming
scenarios of an Anthropocene fraught with nightmares offer new
visions that range from the scientific to the fantastic to the
playful and whimsical. Each essay reflects our present sense of
understanding the world, considering the exploitation of nature and
the dangers of global warming, overpopulation, and blind reliance
on the promises of scientific knowledge and invention. What If?
offers insight into the radical futures of a slipstream
Anthropocene that have much to do with speculative fiction, with
Flusser’s concept of design as “crafty” or slippery, and with
art and the immense creative potential of failure versus
reasonable, “good” computing or calculability. As such, the
book is both a warning and a nudge to imagine what we may yet
become and be.
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