The Future is not Lost: On Music, Technology, and the Creation of New Worlds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bluemink, Matt, Author.

Contributor:

Sbordoni, Alessandro, Editor.

Library Stack, Distributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and music.

Electronic music.

Genre:

Essays

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Becoming Press, 2026.

Summary:

"Mark Fisher taught a generation to hear the future's disappearance in contemporary music, as if the rhythm of the world was synchronized to the periodic flowering of new creative forms. His diagnosis was devastating: stagnation in music was akin to a venous insufficiency, or worse, some kind of nuclear winter that would ward off the spring for endless generations to come. Drawing on musicians like SOPHIE, Arca and Iglooghost, Matt Bluemink declares that the future is not lost; it still speaks to us through music. If Fisher's Hauntology - dwelling on ghosts of the past - is the logic of depression, then Bluemink's Anti-Hauntology posits a logic of hope where voices from the future continue to guide the development of the present. Island-hopping through Stiegler's philosophy of technics, Simondon's theory of individuation, and the spatial imaginaries of cyberpunk and solarpunk, Bluemink builds a theoretical framework equal to the times - one that takes seriously our capacity not only to diagnose the world, but to remake it. In order to create a new future we must re-imagine our relationship with music, with technology, and with culture. --- "This theory toolkit is driven by the desire to create new beginnings, which arise not out of the ashes of the old. The future emerges elsewhere, and there's an urgent need to overcome the organized malaise. According to Bluemink, music can pull us out of this rabbit hole, and drag us out of platform misery. Our common task will be to design these future-seducing figures and sounds that appear out of nowhere and make the world dance again." - Geert Lovink "For those seeking to reclaim the future, Matt Bluemink's book is a welcome read. For the future is cluttered with debris and overblown images that AIs produce to block our view: this is the cyber-trap that The Future is not Lost disarms. And it was time to deactivate the cyber-gimmick we've been dragging around since the 1980s-since the liberating cyborg, the political critique of cybernetics, and cyber-gothic. No, accelerationism, its melancholic double, and its fascist flip side are not inevitable. For the way out is already here, in the music (of SOPHIE, Arca, Iglooghost), in the architecture of connected islands, in autonomous cosmologies, in the atmosphere of solar spirits. A beacon of hope that never forgets political critique, The Future is not Lost draws on philosophers (Gilles Deleuze, Peter Sloterdijk, Gilbert Simondon, Yuk Hui) to prevent us from succumbing to the charms of spectres. Anti-hauntological is the solarpunk world whose warmth Mark Fisher never felt. Permeated by cosmopunk vectors, the future awaits only us to transform Earth into a fantastical planet." - Frédéric Neyrat"-- provided by distributor.

Notes:

Archived and cataloged by Library Stack

Standard Copyright.

Description based on online resource landing page (Library Stack, viewed on 2026-07-16).

ISBN:

9789925645149