Futures

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1.1 Set-up of The Future boardgame (1966). 20
2.1 Interior of the central of three storage vaults at SGSV showing standardized stor­
age crates on shelving units. 43
2.2 The ‘Svalbard tube’. 44
2.3 The SGSV’s dramatic concrete portal building and façade. 45
3.1 Royal Society Conversazione programme, 26 April 1873. Royal Society Archives,
PC/3/1/2, p. 1. © The Royal Society. 55
3.2 South Kensington Museum ground plan, 1862. From Guide to the Art Collections
of the South Kensington Museum (1869). V&A, VA.1868.0005. © V&A. 57
3.3 J. R. Brown, ‘Conversazione of the Royal Society at Burlington House’ [Ladies’
Night], The Graphic, 16 June 1888. Royal Society Archives, PC/1/8, general press cut­
tings book, 1887–8, p. 20. © The Royal Society. 60
3.4 William Gordon Davis, Soirée guests in the Library of the Royal Society at
Burlington House, 1901. Photograph published in Living London, ed. George R. Sims,
vol. 3 (1903). Royal Society Archives, IM/005277. © The Royal Society. 62
8.1 Typology of five evolving futures approaches. 137
11.1 The Business Planning and Strategy Department’s new logo. 186
12.1 Angelus Novus, Paul Klee, 1920. 208
12.2 Adinkra symbol of Sankofa meaning ‘it is not taboo to fetch what is at risk of be­
ing left behind’. 209
14.1 A model of alternative registers of meaningful social temporality that structure
interaction in the vivid present. 228
15.1 Caricature of Patrick Murphy. 251
16.1 Cover illustration for Lauren Beukes’s Zoo City. 265
(p. x) 19.1 The author with his wearable computer c.1998. 320
19.2 Advertisement for Microsoft Band, http://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-
band-read-backstory-evolution-and-development-microsofts-new-smart-device. 324
19.3 Illustration from Fritz Leiber’s ‘The Creature from Cleveland Depths’. 325
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19.4 Jingjing and Chacha, the cartoon mascots of the Internet Surveillance Division
of the Public Security Bureau in Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China. 330
24.1 ‘Eight Futures and a Planning Cone’. 414
24.2, 24.3 Futures tree of ‘inept’ vs. ‘adept’ axis; futures tree of ‘closed’ vs. ‘open’
axis. 415
24.4 Futures tree ‘slice’ view, Year 2000. 416
24.5, 24.6 Screenshot and recreated diagram from Shakey the Robot (1972). 417
24.7 Futures tree diagram. 422
24.8 Diagram of seven ‘realistic’ futures. 425
25.1 ‘The Types of Behavior’. 437
26.1 Tables for the interests on loans and the positions of the moon and planets in
the solar system in Annuaire pour l’an 1875. 447
26.2 The predictive keyboard as fortune-telling. 449
26.3 The Monistic Almanac web publication. 451
26.4 Full Feeder Cattle Chart—Cosmic Commodity Charts. 452
26.5 Crisis Proximity Index. 453
26.6 Example vector from Cosmic Commodity Charts, 6 May 1988. 455
27.1 Optimistic vision of algorithmic life embraced by the Future of Life Institute.
465
27.2 Potential anxieties produced by experiencing algorithmically mediated subjec­
tivity and social relations: ‘A Deep Paralysis’, original art by John Ledger, 2016. 481
30.1 Souvenirs from the Futures exhibition, Gallery 1/9unosunove, Rome, Italy. 523
30.2 ‘Sharing Masks’ by Homa Abdoli, Mostafa Parsa, Amir Mohammad Sojudi / Isfa­
han Art University, Isfahan, Iran. 525
30.3 A multi-language publication, Souvenirs from the Futures. 525
30.4 ‘Yog headset’ by Aniket Kunte, Shilpa Sivaraman, Vyoma Haldipur, Subhrajit
Ghosal / National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India. 527
30.5 Front and back covers of the multi-language publication Souvenirs from the Fu­
tures accompanying the final exhibition. 528
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Barbara Adam

is Emerita Professor at Cardiff University’s School of Social Sciences and Affiliated
Scholar at the Potsdam Institute of Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS). The social
temporal has been her intellectual project throughout her academic career, resulting
in five research monographs and a large number of articles in which she sought to
bring time to the centre of social science analysis. This focus facilitated a unique so­
cial theory, whose relevance transcends disciplines and is taught across the arts and
the humanities as well as the social and environmental sciences. On the basis of this
work she has been awarded two book prizes as well as several theory-based research
fellowships and grants. She is founding editor of the journal Time & Society.

Mohamed-Ali Adraoui

is a French political scientist and historian. He holds a PhD in Political Science from
Sciences Po (2011) for his work on contemporary Salafism. He was a Max Weber Fel­
low at the European University Institute (2013–15) and a Senior Fellow at the Nation­
al University of Singapore (Middle East Institute, 2015–17). He is now a Marie Sk­
lodowska Curie Fellow at Georgetown University and the London School of Econom­
ics. His current research is about the history of US foreign policy towards the Muslim
Brotherhood. He published Salafism Goes Global: From the Gulf to the French Ban­
lieues with Oxford University Press in 2019.
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S. M. Amadae

is a University Lecturer in Politics at the University of Helsinki, and also has status as
Research Affiliate in the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cam­
bridge, and Research Affiliate in Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachu­
setts Institute of Technology. Amadae has published Prisoners of Reason: Game Theo­
ry and Neoliberal Political Economy (Cambridge University Press, 2016), and the
award-winning Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy: Cold War Origins of Rational
Choice Liberalism (University of Chicago Press, 2003). Recent research themes in­
clude addressing the existential risk posed by cyber attacks on nuclear command and
control; investigating the origins of populist nationalism in late-modern neoliberal
capitalism; and analysing how the Nordic economic model provides alternatives to
both neoliberal capitalism and populist nationalism. Amadae is working at Stanford
University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 2020 on the
project Neoliberal Seeds of Illiberalism: Nordic Alternatives.

(p. xii) Jenny Andersson

is CNRS Research Professor and currently on leave from the CNRS and a visiting pro­
fessor at the Department of the History of Ideas and Science at Uppsala University,
Sweden. She was the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded project Futurepol (A
Political History of the Future, Knowledge Production and Future Governance in the
Post War Period) and co-directed the Franco-German collaborative research centre
MaxPo: Coping with instability in advanced market societies (2016–19). She has pub­
lished extensively on the political history of social democracy, the knowledge econo­
my, and the future. Her most recent work is The Future of the World: Futurology, Fu­
turists, and the Struggle for the Cold War Imagination.

Arjun Appadurai

is the Goddard Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York Univer­
sity, where he is also Senior Fellow at the Institute for Public Knowledge. He serves
as Honorary Professor in the Department of Media and Communication, Erasmus Uni­
versity, Rotterdam, Tata Chair Professor at The Tata Institute for Social Sciences,
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Mumbai, and as a Senior Research Partner at the Max Planck Institute for the Study
of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen. He has authored numerous books and
scholarly articles. His most recent book, The Future as a Cultural Fact, was published
by Verso in 2013. He currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Asian Art Initia­
tive at the Solomon Guggenheim Museum and on the Scientific Advisory Board of the
Forum d’Avignon in Paris.

Zeke Baker

is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University. In his present book
project, called ‘Governing Climate’, he analyses the relationship between climate
knowledge and government in the US, from the late eighteenth century until recent
decades. His research also investigates the relationship between climate scientists
and natural resource managers in California, the emergence of US national security
expertise regarding climate change, and the production and use of weather and cli­
mate forecasts in the Arctic. He has recently published articles in the British Journal
of Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Social Science History, and Social Studies of
Science.

David Benqué

is a designer and researcher based in London, where he is a PhD candidate in the
School of Communication of the Royal College of Art. His doctoral research draws
from media-archaeology and critical design practice to investigate algorithmic predic­
tion through the notion of ‘diagrams’. He holds a BA in Graphic and Typographic De­
sign from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, The Netherlands, and an MA in
Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art. He teaches design at Goldsmiths,
University of London.

Paolo Cardini

is a designer, educator, and researcher. He is Associate Professor and Director of the
graduate programme in Industrial Design at Rhode Island School of Design. His work
ranges from product to interaction design with a particular interest in discursive and
speculative design practices. His current research mostly focuses on the interaction
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between artefacts, identities, and globalization. Paolo asks serious questions about
how we live and answers them with whimsical and playful designs. He regularly lec­
tures in conferences and design schools worldwide, contributing actively to the field
with papers and publications.

Liliana Doganova

is an Associate Professor at the Center for the Sociology of Innovation, MINES Paris­
Tech. At the intersection of economic sociology and science and technology studies,
her work has focused on business models, the valorization of public research, and
markets for bio- and clean technologies. She has published in journals such as Re­
search Policy, Science and Public Policy, Economy and Society, and the Journal of Cul­
tural Economy. She is the author of Valoriser la science and co-author of Capitaliza­
tion: A Cultural Guide (p. xiii) (Presses de Mines). She is currently preparing a mono­
graph on the historical sociology of discounting and the economic valuation of the fu­
ture.

Georgina Endfield

is Professor of Environmental History and Associate Pro Vice Chancellor for Research
and Impact for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Liverpool. Her
research focuses on climatic and environmental history, and specifically human re­
sponses to unusual or extreme weather events, conceptualizations of climate and cli­
mate variability in historical perspective, and the links between climate, disease, and
the healthiness of place in Mexico and southern, central, and east Africa. More re­
cently, she has led or co-led a range of AHRC-funded projects related to climate histo­
ry, the cultural spaces of climate, and the production of climate knowledge in the UK,
and the impacts of and responses to extreme weather events in historical perspective.

Keri Facer

is Professor of Educational and Social Futures at the University of Bristol and
Zennström Chair in Climate Change Leadership at Uppsala University. Her work is
concerned with the historic and emerging relationship between educational institu­
tions and social, technological, and environmental change. She has played a central
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role in developing the field of Anticipation Studies, was AHRC Leadership Fellow
(2012–18) for the UKRI Connected Communities Programme (a world-leading experi­
ment in university–community research collaboration), and is now exploring the role
of universities in convening publics to address climate change. She has published
widely in areas ranging from educational futures, to learning cities, to methodological
questions of collaboration and temporality in knowledge production.

Christina Garsten

is Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, and Principal of the
Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. She is a social anthropologist with an interest
in globalization and organizing processes. Her current research focuses on the role of
think tanks in public–private networks of knowledge production and policy develop­
ment, and the enhanced role of think tanks as agenda-setters and brokers of expertise
in a changing global landscape. She has authored numerous articles, books, and an­
thologies, among them the recent book Discreet Power: How the World Economic Fo­
rum Shapes Market Agendas (Stanford University Press, 2018), co-authored with
Adrienne Sörbom.

Jennifer M. Gidley

PhD is an educator, futures researcher, and psychologist. She is an Adjunct Professor,
Institute for Sustainable Futures (UTS), and Southern Cross University, NSW. As Pres­
ident (2009–17) of the World Futures Studies Federation, a UNESCO and UN partner
founded in Paris in 1973, she led the global peak body for the world’s leading futur­
ists from sixty countries. A sought-after international speaker, advisor, and consul­
tant, Jennifer has been involved in projects across Europe, the Middle East, UK, USA,
and Asia, and holds academic affiliations in France and Spain. Jennifer’s PhD was
awarded the Chancellor’s Gold Medal for Academic Excellence. She serves on several
academic editorial boards, and has published dozens of academic papers and several
books. Her recent books include Postformal Education: A Philosophy for Complex Fu­
tures (Springer, 2016) and The Future: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University
Press, 2017).

Rüdiger Graf
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PD, PhD is currently the head of the research unit on the History of Economic Life
(Geschichte des Wirtschaftens) at the Leibniz-Centre for Contemporary History, Pots­
dam, and teaches history at Humboldt University. He studied history and philosophy
at Berlin and Berkeley. In 2006, he received his PhD with a study on ‘The Future of
Weimar Germany’ at Humboldt University and, in 2013, his habilitation with a book
on oil and (p. xiv) energy policy in the United States and Western Europe in the 1970s
at Ruhr-University Bochum. He was a visiting scholar at New York University (2003–
4), a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard
University (2010–11), and a Fellow at the Historisches Kolleg in Munich (2011–12).
Apart from the history of the future and energy policy, he has also published on the
theory of historiography.

John R. Hall

is a Research Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and
Davis. His scholarly interests span social theory, epistemology, the sociology of cul­
ture, the sociology of religion, apocalyptic social movements, and patrimonialism.
Published books include Gone from the Promised Land: Jonestown in American Cul­
tural History (Transaction Books, (1987) 2004); Cultures of Inquiry: From Epistemolo­
gy to Discourse in Sociohistorical Research (Cambridge University Press, 1999);
Apocalypse: From Antiquity to the Empire of Modernity (Polity Press, 2009); and the
co-edited volume Handbook of Cultural Sociology, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2019). His
current research uses structural social phenomenology to retheorize modernity in re­
lation to contemporary society. This effort is currently focused on institutional do­
mains (science, religion, social movements, geopolitical security, and others) and their
framings of climate change in relation to social temporalities.

Rodney Harrison

is Professor of Heritage Studies at the UCL Institute of Archaeology and AHRC Her­
itage Priority Area Leadership Fellow (2017–20). He is Principal Investigator of the
AHRC-funded Heritage Futures Research Programme and leads the Work Package on
‘Theorizing heritage futures in Europe: heritage scenarios’ as part of the EC-funded
Marie Sklodowska Curie action [MSCA] Doctoral Training Network CHEurope: Criti­
cal Heritage Studies and the Future of Europe. In addition to the AHRC, his research
has been funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund, British Academy, Wenner-
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