by INNIT » Mon Oct 01, 2018 5:09 pm
ok, a few quick things and ill shut up about this:
a) the hegelian dialectic doesnt work
b) capitalism continues to intensify even though we have already exhaustively described things like the communist state, etc.
c) our "imagined futures" are always inclusive of the present and past (e.g. "fully automated luxury space communism" draws upon historical materialism and techno utopianism, both being very old ideas). so i guess what i'm trying to say is: good luck imagining a "future" that isn't completely entrenched in your current ideological sphere
maybe we shouldnt be looking towards the future but trying our best to inhabit the present
i find "imagined futures" (the good sort) to never really be that radical, and to always incorporate certain base assumptions: humans must be in this future (or: the future is for humans), this future will tend towards some form of economic collectivism (socialism, communism, etc.), it will be a more technologically advanced future regardless of how this technology is distributed, etc
rarely do we imagine the future where humans willingly exterminate themselves so that the other billions of species can live on, or futures that completely reimagine categories like the economic or the technological as necessary, important.
other thing to consider: the future as a political byproduct of heteronormativity
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