Radical futurisms : ecologies of collapse, chronopolitics and justice-to-come
9783956795275
- Title:
- Radical futurisms : ecologies of collapse, chronopolitics and justice-to-come / T.J. Demos
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Imprint:
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London : Sternberg Press, [2023]
©2023 - Description:
- 221 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.
- Summary:
- "What comes after end-of-world narratives: visions of just futurity and multispecies flourishing. There is widespread consensus that we are living at the end--of democracy, of liberalism, of capitalism, of a healthy planet, of the Holocene, of civilization as we know it. In this book, drawing on radical futurisms and visions of justice-to-come emerging from the traditions of the oppressed--Indigenous, African-American, multispecies, anti-capitalist--as materialized in experimental visual cultural, new media, aesthetic practices, and social movements, T. J. Demos poses speculative questions about what comes after end-of-world narratives. He argues that it's as vital to defeat fatalistic nihilism as it is to defeat the false solutions of green capitalism and algorithmic governance. How might we decolonize the future, and cultivate an emancipated chronopolitics in relation to an undetermined not-yet? If we are to avoid climate emergency's cooptation by technofixes, and the defuturing of multitudes by xenophobic eco-fascism, Demos argues, we must cultivate visions of just futurity and multispecies flourishing."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Preface: winning the world we want -- Chapter 1: Radical futurisms -- Chapter 2: Traditions of the oppressed/avengers of the future -- Chapter 3: Climate futures: from emergency to emergence -- Chapter 4: Chronopolitics: futurist organizing, diplomacy, and governance -- Chapter 5: Solidarity as the compass of change.
- Bibliographic Note:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subjects:
- ISBN:
- 9783956795275 and 395679527X
- OCLC no:
- 1244275851
- Permanent Link
- https://library.ccs.bard.edu/catalog/1244275851