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Eclipsepunk - stress testing visions of better futures
The futurists of the world struggle to convey positive and optimistic scenarios that encourage humane action.
Medium • Welcome to Terranascient Futures Studies & Foresight
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I should also reiterate here that my work is absolutely not trying to future-cast a singular vision or offer immediate solutions to the present, which is an impossible and dangerous brand of solutionism that we know well enough already from the technosolutionists in Silicon Valley. Rather, I’m using speculation to expand the atlas of shared underst... See more
On Technology and Humanity: Alice Bucknell and Her Alternative Worlds
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Faced with climate change and other interconnected existential crises in the twenty-first century, it is quickly becoming a cliché to say that there is a strong need to “imagine better futures.” But such a statement hides many questions and challenges. Who gets to imagine these futures? Who feels safe and supported enough, economically, politically... See more
Rahel Aima • Imagination Infrastructuring for Real and Virtual Worlds
Keely Adler added
We don’t just report research, we bring to life visions of better worlds in better futures to motivate the many and activate change. Because when you think of better futures like memes (by which we mean, the academic, Richard Dawkins, OG definition of memes), you can start to see the potential in their propagation. You open up, in Kiana’s words onc... See more
Em Howell • Multiplayer Futures
Keely Adler added
Collectively, we also need pictures of societal futures that go beyond today’s status quo. They complement but do not replace the necessary work of activism that fights against the injustices of the present. We also need new answers to new problems—the vulnerabilities caused by a more connected world, or by potentially lethal artificial intelligenc
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
exploring alternate realities reveals the interlocking contingencies of the status quo, speculative stories may prove useful not just to those imagining the future, but those who seek to invent it.
Eliot Peper • The Possibility Engine
Keely Adler added
Do you feel it is important for you to constantly investigate and come up with alternative scenarios?
Yes, personally I find it a very exciting and necessary kind of practice in the present. I should also reiterate here that my work is absolutely not trying to future-cast a singular vision or offer immediate solutions to the present, which is an i
... See moreOn Technology and Humanity: Alice Bucknell and Her Alternative Worlds
Keely Adler added