Futures in the Making
Speculative Art for a Burning World
$112.55
- Paperback
248 pages
- Release Date
3 November 2026
Summary
How art and design can be powerful tools for actively shaping the futures of climate change.
The future has been canceled, or at least reduced to a perpetual extension of the present, or so we have been told many times by cultural theorists in recent decades. As the unfolding environmental crisis impels us to look ahead with a renewed sense of urgency, many now realize that these futures never went away. In Futures in the Making, Theo Reeves-Evison invites readers to explore the role …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262056120 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262056127 |
| Author: | Theo Reeves-Evison |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 3 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
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“This genre-bending book argues for art to prevent the future from being locked into some form of self-fulfilling prophecy. Reeves-Evison brings his wide literacy and interpretive dexterity to show that the speculative arts can play a key role in the infrastructure of unscripted future-building.”
—Arjun Appadurai, coauthor of Failure (with Neta Alexander)
“The future is not what it used to be. But how are futures being made as futures past go up in flames? Theo Reeves-Evison’s extraordinary book offers us a critical tour de force of speculative future-making for a wildly unstable earth.”
—Martin Savransky, author of Exology: Planetary Upheaval and Social Life and Around the Day in Eighty Worlds: Politics of the Pluriverse
Theo Reeves-Evison
Theo Reeves-Evison is a writer, researcher, and Senior Lecturer at Birmingham School of Art. He is coeditor, with Jon K. Shaw, of Fiction as Method, author of Ethics of Contemporary Art, and contributor to journals including Third Text, New Formations, Critical Inquiry, and Environmental Humanities.
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