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Futures : Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature - Sandra Kemp

Futures

By: Sandra Kemp (Editor), Jenny Andersson (Editor)

Hardcover | 21 October 2021 | Edition Number 1

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Futures examines the relevance of futures studies to literary studies. It demonstrates how the growing interest in futures thinking is opening up multidisciplinary conversations and initiatives, examining historical and contemporary forms of futures knowledge, the methodologies and technologies of futures expertise, and the role played by different institutions on legitimising, deploying, and controlling anticipatory practices.

Bringing together emerging perspectives on the future from diverse disciplinary perspectives including critical theory, design, anthropology, sociology, politics, and history, this book places the provocation of power at the heart of the book through an investigation of futures as both objects of science and objects of the human imagination, creativity, and will. A multidisciplinary team of contributors challenge and debate the varied ways in which futures are conjured and constructed, exploring issues as diverse as the utopian imagination, history and philosophy, literary and political manifestos, artefacts and design fictions, and forms of technological and financial forecasting, big data, climate modelling, and scenarios.

The book positions the future as a question of power, of representations and counter-representations, and forms of struggle over future imaginaries. Forms of futures-making depend on complex processes of envisioning and embodiment. Each chapter investigates the critical vocabularies, genres, and representational methods - narrative, quantitative, visual, and material - of futures-making as deeply contested fields in cultural and social life.
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The volume works well as an introductory and overview work. Readers who are looking for an insight into the international field of research on futures will find what they are looking for, especially since the articles are widely quoted and further literature is recommended. * Kirstin Jorns, H-Soz-Kult *
Richly textured, Futures tackles some of the unexplored potential of literature's unique knowing and making of futures. * Maxim Shadurski, Modern Language Review *

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