This book examines the relevance of futures and future studies to literary studies. It demonstrates how the growing interest in futures thinking is opening up multidisciplinary conversations and initiatives.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- I. Future Histories
- 1: Jenny Andersson: The Future Boardgame: Prediction as Power over Time
- 2: Rodney Harrison: Preservation as Future Assembling Practices
- 3: Sandra Kemp: A Space for Time: Museums as Futures Imaginaries
- 4: Mat Paskins: Voices Prophesying Everything: Tracing Futures in Twentieth-Century Periodicals
- 5: Rüdiger Graf: Ignorance Is Bliss: The Pluralization of the Future as a Challenge to Contemporary History
- 6: Laura Wittman: Italian Futurism and the Explosive 'Now'
- II. Knowing the Future
- 7: Barbara Adam: Futures Honed
- 8: Jennifer Gidley: Futures Studies: An Evolving Radical Epistemology
- 9: Paolo Jedlowski and Vincenza Pellegrino: Future as an Horizon of Expectations
- 10: Johan Siebers: Creativity and the Ontology of Not-yet Being
- 11: Jacob Ward: Nineteen Eighty-Four in the British Telecom System: Computers, Science Fiction and Thatcherism in British Telecom
- 12: Keri Facer and Ian Wei: Universities, Futures, and Temporal Ambiguity
- III. Salvation and Apocalypse
- 13: Linda Woodhead: Apocalyptic, World-Repair, Divination: Persistent Modes of Future-knowing and their Continuing Relevance
- 14: John R. Hall and Zeke Baker: Climate Change, Apocalypse and the Future of Salvation
- 15: Georgina Endfield: Future Weather: Imagining and Articulating Uncertainty
- 16: Laura Pereira, Busiso Moyo, Charne Lavery, Nadia Sitas, Rike Sitas, Odirilwe Selomane, Christopher Trisos, Wakanda Phambili: African Science Fiction for Reimagining the Anthropocene
- 17: Arjun Appadurai: The Scarcity of Social Futures in the Digital Era
- 18: Mohamed-Ali Adraoui: Future and Prophecies in the World Vision of The Islamic State Organization: Between Offensive Millenarianism and Precipitated Eschatologism
- IV: Futures of Life
- 19: Anders Sandberg: Post-Human Design: The Crafted Human Body and the Exoself
- 20: Apolline Taillandier: Transhumanists and Posthuman Imaginaries
- 21: John Holmes: Myths of the Future: Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men
- 22: Julia Nordblad: Concepts of Future Generations: Four Contemporary Examples
- 23: Liliana Doganova: Discounting the Future: A Political Technology
- V: Future Worlds
- 24: R. John Williams: Beyond Computation: Scenario Planning and the Spiritual Art of Multiple Futures
- 25: Egle Rindzeviciute: The Cybernetic Prediction: Orchestrating the Future
- 26: David Benqué: Making an Almanac; Producing Predictions between Data Science and Astrology
- 27: S. M. Amadae: Life as Algorithm
- 28: Benoît Pelopidas: The Birth of Nuclear Eternity
- 29: Christina Garsten and Adrienne Sörbom: Future by Design: Seductive Technologies of Anticipation within the Future Industry
- 30: Paolo Cardini: The Global Futures Lab: A Search for Hyper-contextualized Futures
