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Future matters : action, knowledge, ethics / by Barbara Adam and Chris Groves.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adam, Barbara, 1945-
- Series:
- Supplements to The study of time ; v. 3.
- Supplements to The study of time ; v. 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Time--Sociological aspects.
- Time.
- Forecasting.
- Social action.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
- Summary:
- Future Matters concerns contemporary approaches to the future - how the future is known, created and minded. In a social world whose pace continues to accelerate the future becomes an increasingly difficult terrain. While the focus of social life is narrowing down to the present, the futures we create on a daily basis cast ever longer shadows. Future Matters addresses this paradox and its deep ethical implications. It locates contemporary approaches to the future in a wider sociological and historical framework of practices, traces differences and continuities, and shows how contemporary practices of futures-construction make taking responsibility for futures all but impossible.
- Contents:
- The Future Told 2
- The Future Tamed 6
- Futures Traded 9
- Futures Transformed 11
- Futures Traversed 13
- Chapter 2 The Future Told 17
- Glimpses of Fate and Fortune 18
- Of Voices, Visions and Visitations 23
- Predictions, Projections and Promises 25
- Possible, Probable, Preferred and Produced Futures 31
- Reflections 37
- Chapter 3 The Future Tamed 39
- Stabilizing Change 41
- Against Uncertainty 43
- Confronting Finitude 48
- From Providence to Progress 53
- Chapter 4 Futures Traded 57
- Perfectibility Desired 60
- Progress Naturalised 65
- Profit Pursued 69
- Chapter 5 Futures Transformed 77
- Promethean Power 79
- Future Makers, Future Takers 88
- Futurity Redeemed 93
- Chapter 6 Futures Traversed 101
- Speeding into the Present 102
- Blindfolded at the Controls 112
- Politics of Posterity 115
- Chapter 7 Futures Thought 121
- Futurity as Care 125
- Anticipatory Bodies 129
- Extension without Boundaries 131
- Chapter 8 Futures Tended 141
- Responsibility for the Present 141
- Limits to Reciprocity 145
- Care Comes First 149
- Common Fates 154
- Chapter 9 Futures Transcended 161
- Action, Knowledge, Ethics 163
- Troubling Facts 171
- Complexity with Futurity 176
- Beyond Certainty 181.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-210) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9789004161771
- 9004161775
- OCLC:
- 171613920
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