Histories of the future / edited by Daniel Rosenberg and Susan Harding.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rosenberg, Daniel, 1966-

Harding, Susan Friend.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forecasting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An anthropologically based interdisciplinary collection on sites and projections of imagined futures from conspiracy theorists to technological dystopias.

Contents:

Introduction : histories of the future / Daniel Rosenberg and Susan Harding

A notebook on desert modernism : from the Nevada test site to Liberace's two-hundred-pound suit / Joseph Masco

How to make resources in order to destroy them (and then save them?) on the salvage frontier / Anna Tsing

The cell phone and the crowd : messianic politics in the contemporary Philippines / Vicente L. Rafael

Global futures : the game / Anna Tsing and Elizabeth Pollman

Electronic memory / Daniel Rosenberg

All that is solid melts into sauce : futurists, surrealists, and molded food / Jamer Hunt

Sing out Ubik / Pamela Jackson

Access fantasy : a story / Jonathan Lethem

Subject, city, machine / Miryam Sas

Manifesto of the Japanese futurist movement / Hirato Renkichi

The future of the old economy : New Deal motives in new economy investors / Christopher Newfield

Why Rachel isn't buried at her grave : ghosts, ufos, and a place in the West / Susan Lepselter

The trouble with timelines and a timeline of timelines / Daniel Rosenberg and Sasha Archibald

Living prophecy at heaven's gate / Susan Harding

Trauma time : a still life / Kathleen Stewart.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [314]-354) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-02190-0

9786613021908

0-8223-8681-X

OCLC:

220950214