Spectral Futures : Fabulations of Worlds to Come.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Herzogenrath, Bernd, editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

Future's Theory Series

Futures theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social prediction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Summary:

Novel and thought-provoking, this book illuminates different facets of futurities through a lens of various colours.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Spectral Futures: An Introduction

Welcome to the Spectrum!!

Chapter 1: Wavelength: 0.001 nm | Color: Gamma Rays: The Spectral Affectivity of Glaciers

Chapter 2: Wavelength: 100-400 nm | Color: Ultraviolet: Wild Light: Radiant Skin and the Domestication of Ultraviolet Futures

Domestication

The Skin Speaks

Chapter 3: Wavelength: 380-750 nm | Color: Rainbow: Somewhere over the Rainbow

The Difference That Difference Makes

Chapter 4: Wavelength: 400-700 nm+ | Color: White: White Rot

White and Its Rotten Double

White on White: The Tabula Rasa and Its Supplement

The Savagery of White Death-Worlds

Bone White

Oil and Amulets-The Spectral Future of White

Chapter 5: Wavelength: 420-700 nm | Color: Sodium-Silver | Blank Screens and Spectral Skies: Hong Kong as a Postcolonial Locus of Transnational Asian Futures

Hong Kong as Case Setting

Skyglow as Spectral Trace

Sky as Screen

Blankness as Oversaturation

Chapter 6: Wavelength: 450 nm Low Latency (You Know, for High-Speed Trading) | Color: CME Blue (i.e., the Blue that the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Uses): A Brief and Speculative History of Making the Weather an Option

Colonial Climates

The Climate of Speculation

Climate Changes

Derivative Climates

Options for the Future(s)?

Chapter 7: Wavelength: 450-490 nm | Color: Cobalt Blue: Afterimage

Chapter 8: Wavelength: 490 nm | Color: Supra-blue Minor: Meshes of Light and Death, by Oceanic Bacteria

Chapter 9: Wavelength: 492 nm | Color: Infragreen: An Infragreen and Bipolar Tale of the Future

Here is the story that Hauser told them

Here ended Hauser's story

Chapter 10: Wavelength: 530 nm | Color: Pure Gold: Hyper-Vanguard: The Future of a Thousand Sects

Rules of the City.

Faction 1: Time Sect

Faction 2: Space Sect

Library of the Gharib

Chapter 11: Wavelength: 555 nm | Color: Chartreuse Green: Pale Green Dots

A Vaporous Emanation

The Rise of the Ocean System

The New Radiant Regime

Chapter 12: Wavelength: 580 nm | Color: Yellow: Specters of Solar Futurity: Yellow-Black-Yellow

Black Cube

Yellow to Black

Black to Yellow

Ukraino-futures?

Chapter 13: Wavelength: 590 nm | Color: Amber: Memory of a Stone

Drifting Field

Drifting Time

Drifting Product

Fuel

Drifting Imagination

Chapter 14: Wavelength: 605.34 nm | Color: Vermillion: Vermillion Times: Memoranda from the Future

Prologue

Vermillion Red Mist

Film-Time and Cinnabar Crystals

In Absence of the Sun's Gentle Touch

An Endless Otherness

Red-Hued Wonders

Metamorphosis into Ethereal Blossoms

Symbiosis with Mycorrhizal Fungi

A Novel Cinematographic Device

A Path through Time Itself

Yesteryears and the Yet-to-Come

Chapter 15: Wavelength: 680 nm | Color: Flesh Red: Excoriating Red: A Note on Russian Futurity

Political Red in Russia

The Red Itch

Red Unity: Political and Biological

The Perfect Red Moment

A Flesh Mirror

Red Futurities

Chapter 16: Wavelength: None, Multiple | Color: Gray: Dead or Alive? Gray Futures

Of Shades and Tones

Gray Becomings

Gray Temporalities

Possible Futures

Chapter 17: Wavelength: 0 nm - 400 nm - ≥ 700 nm | Color: Blackless: Blackless: The Present-Absence of Blackness in an African Tomorrow

The Litmus of an African Present Blackness

Ifá in a Yōrùbá Sci-Fi Multiverse

Into Seven Futures with an Ifá Time Craft

Conclusion: Beyond the Present-Presence of Blackness in Today

Chapter 18: Wavelength: 595 nm | Color: Black Hole Black: Black Hole Black (Disco Ball Lightning).

Chapter 19: Wavelength: 6000∘A nm | Color: Transparent: The Color of Breath, the Color of Air

WeTopias.

Chapter 20: Wavelength: n/a | Color: Luminous Darkness: Exploring the Metaphysics of Afrofuturism through Howard Thurman's Luminous Darkness

Introduction

Thurman's Luminous Darkness

Isfet and Luminous Darkness

Unleashing the Cosmic Powers of Afrofuturism

Embrace the Power of Afrocentric Spirituality and Cosmology

The Powerful Connection between Technology and Spirituality

Unraveling the Profound Depths of Howard Thurman's Enlightening Obscurity

The Compelling Significance of Darkness andLight in Thurman's Metaphysics

The Powerful Impact of Afrofuturist Elements on Thurman's Work

The Impactful Influence of Afrofuturism on Contemporary Culture

Broadening Metaphysical Concepts in Afrofuturist Literary Works

Harnessing Afrofuturism as a Catalyst for Transformative Social and Political Progress

Chapter 21: Wavelength: n/a | Color: Iridescence: The Future Iridesces

Monday October 8, 2035

Saturday November 12, 2035

Thursday December 6, 2035

Chapter 22: Wavelength (Khaki): 575.4nm∞Wavelength (Dark Gray)-nil: Soliloquies of a Lone Diner and the Specters of Thomas Sankara

Specters and the Portal on the Wall

Ghosts, Hauntings, and Exorcism

The Present Is a Future's Past

Conclusion

Contributors

Further Reading on the Topic of "Color"

Films:

Apps:

Notes

Spectral Futures

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 22

Bibliography

Half Title.

ISBN:

1-350-42115-4

1-350-42114-6

1-350-42113-8

9781350421134

OCLC:

1559236849