Futurity Report by Eric C.H. De Bruyn - ISBN: 9783956794230
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Is the future foreclosed, shrinking, or full of dangerous possibilities?

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    280 pages

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    13 October 2020

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Summary

Theorists, historians, and artists address the precarious futurity of the notion of the future.

Not long ago, a melancholic left and a manic neoliberalism seemed to arrive at an awkward consensus—the foreclosure of futurity. Whereas the former mourned the failure of its utopian project, the latter celebrated the triumph of a global marketplace. The radical hope of realizing a singularly different, more equitable future was displaced by a belief that the future had already come to pass…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9783956794230
ISBN-10:3956794230
Author:Eric C.H. De Bruyn, Sven Lütticken
Publisher:Sternberg Press
Imprint:Sternberg Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:280
Release Date:13 October 2020
Weight:561g
Dimensions:221mm x 168mm x 24mm
About The Author

Eric C.H. De Bruyn

Eric C. H. de Bruyn is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Freie Universität, Berlin. He is an editor of Grey Room and he has written for, among other publications, Art Journal, Artforum, and Texte zur Kunst.

Sven Lütticken, an art historian and critic, teaches at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He is the author of Cultural Revolution- Aesthetic Practice after Autonomy (Sternberg Press) and other books.

McKenzie Wark (she/her), awarded the 2019 Thoma Prize for writing in digital art, is the author of A Hacker Manifesto Gamer Theory, and The Beach Beneath the Street. Wark’s correspondence with Kathy Acker was published by Semiotext(e) as I’m Very Into You.

Diedrich Diederichsen is Professor of Theory, Practice, and Communication of Contemporary Art at the Academy of Fine Art in Vienna.

Natascha Sadr Haghighian is an artist living in Berlin.

Felicity D. Scott is Associate Professor of Architecture at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, where she directs the PhD program in architecture and codirects the program in Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture. She is the author of Architecture or Techno-utopia- Politics after Modernism (MIT Press).

Kodwo Eshun lectures in Aural and Visual Culture at Goldsmiths College, University of London. In 2002 he cofounded, with Anjalika Sagar, The Otolith Group, a collective working across film and video, artists’ writing, and exhibition curation. He is the author of More Brilliant than the Sun- Adventures in Sonic Fiction and has written for publications including The Guardian, The Wire, and frieze.

Haytham El-Wardany is an Egyptian writer currently residing in Berlin. He recently published Kitab Al-Nawm (The Book of Sleep).

T. J. Demos, an award-winning writer, is Professor of Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies. He writes widely about contemporary art, global politics, and ecology, and is the author, most recently, of Against the Anthropocene- Visual Culture and Environment Today (Sternberg Press).

Ana Teixeira Pinto is a writer and theorist, based in Berlin.

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