What are the most radical transformations on the horizon of our world?Shining a light on the many possibilities of the future from multiple astonishing perspectives, this book explores how new ages are imagined in our century. Bringing together over 20 prominent thinkers from a variety of disciplines, it examines the potential dimensions of the future and how they will affect everything from our culture to our politics, from our bodies to our minds. As future eras remain cloaked in relative obscurity, they compel the invention of new techniques for navigating those realms of visionary speculation. With deeply immersive entries on captivating phenomena occurring across all regions of our global reality, this book brings novel theoretical interpretations of transpiring events and the great ciphers they reveal. This includes hidden questions surrounding artificial intelligence, virtual reality, mass migration, speed, climate, geo-engineering, automation, and many more.Moreover, this book skilfully tethers inexhaustible abstract concepts like the infinite and the illusory to the emergence of new knowledge systems that allow analysis of the unknown, ultimately offering insight on the rarest features of futurity. Filled with original impressions from experts in the domains of literature, philosophy, visual art, architecture, design, media studies, ecology, anthropology, and more, Fut s Theory contemplates the new variables that will expand and distort such fields in irreversibly compelling ways, opening up discussion of the steps toward a new atmosphere for thought itself in the epochs to come.>

Autorentext
Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh is a philosopher, literary theorist, and professor of comparative literature at Babson College. His work tracks movements of radical thought across the so-called East and the West, with particular attention to concepts of chaos, violence, illusion, silence, extremism, mania, disappearance, night, evil, secrecy, and apocalyptic writing. He has published nine books to date, including two volumes titled Omnicide I and Omnicide II on madness, and two volumes on night titled Night: A Philosophy of the After-Dark and Night II: A Philosophy of the Last World. He is also the founding director of the Future Studies Program, Programmer of Transdisciplinary Studies for The New Centre for Research & Practice, and co-editor of the Future's Theory and Suspensions book series for Bloomsbury Press.

Zusammenfassung
This book provides fascinating insights into the speculations and impacts of multiple overlapping and interdisciplinary futures.

Inhalt

Prologue, Jason Mohaghegh (Babson College, USA)

Part I. Seven Prophecies of the Future

1.Chimera, Nora Khan (Rhode Island School of Design,USA) and Jason Mohaghegh (Babson College, USA)
2.Cipher, Amy Ireland (The University of New South Wales, Australia) and Edward Keller (The New School University, USA)

3. Temple, Carla Leitao (Rensselaer Polytechnic University, USA) and Dan Mellamphy (Western University Canada, Canada)
4. Reign, Nandita Biswas Mellamphy (Western University Canada, Canada) and Arshin Adib-Moghaddam (SOAS University of London, UK)
5. Oracle, Anna Longo (California Institute of the Arts, USA) and Dejan Lukic (The Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, USA)
6. Surface, Laura Tripaldi (The University of Milan, Italy) and Michael Marder (University of the Basque Country, Spain)

7. Idol, Reza Negarestani (The New Centre for Research & Practice) and Jason Mohaghegh (Babson College, USA)

   Part II: Future Labs

8. Future Time, Edward Keller (The New School University, USA)
9. Future Space, Jason Mohaghegh (Babson College, USA)
10. Future Movement, Una Chung (Sarah Lawrence College, USA), Will Scarlett
11. Future Body, Laura Tripaldi (The University of Milan, Italy), Dana Dawud
12. Future Image, Dejan Lukic (The Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, USA)
13. Future Illusion, Nora Khan (Rhode Island School of Design,USA)
14. Future Cosmos, Damon Quasravie, Zahra Bonari
15. Future Thought, Dan Mellamphy (Western University Canada, Canada)
16. Future Power, Arshin Adib-Moghaddam (SOAS University of London, UK)
17. Future Machine, Nandita Biswas-Mellamphy (Western University Canada)
18. Future Virtual, Ali Eslami
19. Future Cruelty, Reza Negarestani (The New Centre for Research & Practice, USA)
20. Future Appearance, Ghazal Zamani and Jason Mohaghegh
21. Future Mysticism, Andrea Cetrulo
22. Future Prophecy, Anna Longo (California Institute of the Arts, USA)
23. Non-Future, Danna Al-Banyan, Asad Khan, Sahej Rahal

24. Future X, Federico Nieto, Sahej Rahal, Anna Engelhardt, Sasha Shestakova

    Part III: Future Library

    24.The Cosmological Archive, Jason Mohaghegh (Babson College, USA), Edward Keller (The New School University, USA), Carla Leitao (Rensselaer Polytechnic University, USA), Nora Khan (Rhode Island School of Design,USA), Sahej Rahal, Will Scarlett

    Epilogue, Bogna Konior (NYU Shanghai, China)