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What if art is not just a mirror of the world but a factory for its futures?
This project brings artists and writers into dialogue, exploring how each generates knowledge through distinct but complementary methods – philosophic fabulation on the one hand, perception and affect on the other. In an age where we are drowning in data yet starved for meaning, we argue that art is an urgent toolkit for survival: a laboratory of sensation and imagination that equips us to feel, not just forecast, the worlds to come.
This conversation asks not how to predict the future, but how to inhabit it – together, creatively, critically, and sensuously.
We do not reason our way into new worlds. We imagine them into being. When the future has been reduced to algorithmic predictability, it is urgent that we reclaim imagination as the essential force of the subject: not as a faculty for speculating on what the future might be, but as a weapon for shaping it into what we want it to be. This book helps us to do just that.
— Julian Reid, Professor of International Relations, University of Lapland, Finland. Co-author of Becoming Indigenous: Governing Imaginaries in the Anthropocene
Bernd Herzogenrath is Professor of American Studies at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His research and interests include film studies, sound studies, and media philosophy.
List of Figures
Introduction
Alexandra Anikina & Martin Charvát
Chantal Meza & Brad Evans
Claudia Dapper & Christine Wunnicke
Daria Martin & Rosi Braidotti
Emil Schult & Torsten Schmidt
Godfrey Williams-Okorodus & Shola Adenekan
Janis Ledwell-Hunt & Rebecca Fredrickson
Jonas Staal
Jordan Tierney & Jane Bennett
Kathy High & María Antonia González Valerio
Latedjou & Gladys Kalichini
Louise Mackenzie & Maro Pebo
Matti Aikio & Tim Ingold
Michael Rittstein & Tomáš Kobes
Osheen Siva & Václav Janoščík
Rafani & Dawn Chan
Rambod Vala & Afrooz Partovi
Saša Spačal & Alison Sperling
Sonya Dyer & Simon O’Sullivan
Sophie Ristlhueber & Ondřej Váša
Sougwen Chung & Martin Švantner
Susan Schuppli & Tomáš Dvořák
Theresa Schuberth & Jessica Ullrich
Thora Arnardottir & Pierluca D’Amato
Tomás Saraceno & bernd herzogenrath
Warren Neidich & Anders Dunker
Yoshua Okón & Babson Ajibade