Sublime

Ambiguity was dangerously close, in his estimation, to hypocrisy; and hypocrisy—as every true revolutionary knows—is the music by which complacency and decadence dance their unholy quadrille.

the future is presented as the maintenance of existing power relations—projections from which egalitarian forms of post-capitalism or eco-socialism are excluded.

Moreover, there is no guarantee that an AI system will keep its original values and goals as it evolves and learns from its environment.

Progressive imaginaries point to futures that are simultaneously more differentiated and integrated, showing an underlying unity on a larger scale and a heightened awareness. They offer generalisable ideas, albeit ones that then need to be adapted to context. Reactionary imaginaries look backwards, reinforcing separation, and offer answers that onl

He feared that the higher ideals of the Enlightenment were “irretrievably lost” and that only the imperative of “economic compulsion” would prevail.

it often becomes impossible to figure out how an individual input is affecting the predicted outcome.

The future has often been viewed as empty and abstracted from context; as a result an ‘empty future is there for the taking, open to commodification, colonization and control…When the future is decontextualized and depersonalized we can use and abuse it without feeling guilt or remorse’ (Adam, Groves 2007: 13). The future has indeed been used and a

United States and Britain, the countries most associated with neoliberalism: they had lost the ability to imagine solving problems by investing in public goods.