Memories of the Future: On Countervision

Memories of the Future: On Countervision

Memories of the Future: On Countervision

Memories of the Future: On Countervision

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Overview

What is a memory of the future? This book speculates on the connections between memory and futurity in a variety of fields, including counter-histories, women's studies, science fiction, art and design, technology, philosophy and politics. Topics include technology and fashion, reinventions of monetary exchange and memories of adolescence.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783034319355
Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date: 04/28/2017
Series: Cultural Memories , #6
Pages: 284
Product dimensions: 5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Stephen Wilson is a writer and theorist on contemporary art; he is a senior lecturer and coordinator of postgraduate theory at University of the Arts, London.

Deborah Jaffé is a cultural and design historian and the author of Ingenious Women: From Tincture of Saffron to Flying Machines (2003).

Table of Contents

CONTENTS: Deborah Jaffé: Preface – Stephen Wilson: Introduction – Malcolm Quinn: The Plot against the Future – Alberto Abruzzese (translated by Kevin W. Molin): Three Moves for a Single Advent/Event: (a) From Modern Fiction to the Latest Seriality; (b) Means instead of Ends; (c) The Revolt of Technics against Human Progress – Julia Eccleshare: Mortal Engines and The Hunger Games: How Myths from the Past Shape Visions of a Sustainable Future and the Responsibility for It as Represented in Children’s Literature – Sarah Bonner: Girl Acting Out: Revisiting the Fairy Tale Futures of Little Red Riding Hood and Snow White – Penny McCarthy: Mirror: Time Will Darken Paper – Jennet Thomas: School of Change: Re-dreaming Past Futures – Liam Sprod: The Blackening of Epekeina Tes Ousias: The Death of the Sun and the Death of Philosophy – Claudio Celis Bueno: The Attention Economy: From Cyber-Time to Cinematic Time – Austin Houldsworth: Counterfiction: Designing within Alternative Worlds – Ilaria Puri Purini: Seizing the Future: The Futurists and Future-oriented Contemporary Works – Anneke Smelik/Lianne Toussaint: From Hardware to Softwear: The Future Memories of Techno-Fashion – Karl Bell: (Un)knotting Time: Imagining Past Futures in Early Victorian Street Ballads.

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