“Love Your Monsters”

Lane, S.A.

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“…Nature, said Latour, could no more be natural than Frankenstein's monster, asking also if this was really the moment when 'chosen by millions of well-meaning souls to flagellate themselves for their earlier aspiration to dominion, to repent for their past hubris, to look for ways of diminishing the numbers of their fellow humans, and to swear to make their footprints invisible?' (Latour, 2012). Systems ecologist Alf Hornborg at one memorable occasion argued that Latour was more interested in the agency of the CO 2 molecule than in the human, political, economic, ultimately capitalist system that had produced it and placed it at the origin of a perverse global division of labour (see Hornborg, 2014).…”

Section: Futures Beyond -Posthuman Futures and The Return Of Timementioning

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Between responsibility and escape: The future as an object of knowledge in the humanities and social sciences

Andersson

2024

European Journal of Social Theory

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The future has been a central object of inquiry in the twentieth-century social theory. In this essay, a first generation of intellectual concern with the future is represented in the post-war turn towards a hermeneutics of time and reflections on modernity in the writings of conceptual historian Reinhart Koselleck and philosopher Paul Ricoeur. In their writings, the future was both essential reflection on the limits of human existence and a fundamental liberation of political potential. As such they situated the future in what was defined as historical time. A second wave of scholarly thinking came in the explosion of a post-war field of futures studies. The future, to post-war futurists, was a loss of telos and an indication of the fundamental immaturity and hubris of the human subject. History was a cumbersome remnant of past destruction, and the imperative was to move beyond. In a third generation, currently taking form, the future is considered as part of a postmodern, indeed posthuman existence. ‘There is no such thing as humanity’ makes human history impossible and opens the question of whether it is even possible to engage with the future without a clear anchoring in the history of what it is to be human.

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Section: Futures Beyond -Posthuman Futures and The Return Of Timementioning

confidence: 99%

Between responsibility and escape: The future as an object of knowledge in the humanities and social sciences

Andersson

2024

European Journal of Social Theory

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“Love Your Monsters”

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Between responsibility and escape: The future as an object of knowledge in the humanities and social sciences

Between responsibility and escape: The future as an object of knowledge in the humanities and social sciences

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