The present of the future / Susanne Witzgall and Kerstin Stakemeier, eds.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Witzgall, Susanne, editor.

Stakemeier, Kerstin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Future, The--Social aspects.

Future, The.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Diaphanes, [2017]

Summary:

As the world teeters on the brink of crisis and potentially catastrophic change, outlooks for the future have come to be characterized by anxiety.The skepticism that meets utopian visions of the future has given rise to collective nostalgia for seemingly reliable ideas.

Contents:

The Present of the Future

Editor's Preface

In Search of the Future

Reality of the Future and Future Reality

Plans will not help realise a projected future

B-Levels

Project Class Nora Schultz

May You Live in Interesting Times

Cassandra is powerless

Occupying the Future

Each time I believe that things are predictable I get sick

Why the News Anyway

You cannot order scientific results like a pizza

Negotiating the Future

To explore the speculative is urgent and necessary

Infra-structuring the Future: Catastrophe, Crisis, Critique

The imaginary of catastrophe is actually incorporated more and more into the evereyday

Catastrophic Reproduction: Science Fiction on the Far Side of the Subject

I'm that Angel

Project Class Tyler Coburn

The Future of the Body

Augmented Embodiments

Become parahuman

The Authors

Table of Figures

Colophon.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed March 11, 2018).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

3-03734-988-3

OCLC:

1023861619