Discounting the Future
the ascendancy of a political technology
$46.40
- Hardcover
336 pages
- Release Date
21 May 2024
Summary
Discounting the Future: How We Lost Our Capacity to Act
A pioneering exploration of the defining traits and contradictions of our relationship to the future through the lens of discounting
Forest fires, droughts, and rising sea levels beg a nagging question: have we lost our capacity to act on the future? Liliana Doganova’s book sheds new light on this anxious query. It argues that our relationship to the future has been trapped in the gears of a device call…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781942130918 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1942130910 |
| Series: | Near Futures |
| Author: | Liliana Doganova |
| Publisher: | Zone Books |
| Imprint: | Zone Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 21 May 2024 |
| Weight: | 600g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
“An up close and detailed study of discounting.”—Daniel Neyland, Economy and Society
About The Author
Liliana Doganova
Liliana Doganova is Associate Professor at the Centre de sociologie de l’innovation, Mines Paris, PSL University. She is the author of Valoriser la science and the coauthor of Capitalization: A Cultural Guide.
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