Radical futurisms : ecologies of collapse, chronopolitics and justice-to-come / T.J. Demos.

Author/creator Demos, T. J. author.
Format Book
PublicationLondon : Sternberg Press, [2023]
Copyright Date©2023
Description221 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Subjects

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
Abstract "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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 2021277803
ISBN9783956795275 (paperback)
ISBN395679527X (paperback)

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