...Twenty-first-century postapocalyptic fictions find in the legacy of the nuclear condition a way of thinking out of the rigid present, of questioning the fixed categories of that present, and of using the foreclosed future to imagine an alternate space and time from within the ontological bunker...

... intelligence augmented reality avant garde Big Brother databases Futurism LIDAR machines Neo Concretism sensors social media Universes of value actants aesthetic machine embodied future machine-city machinic assemblage machinic city narrative Neo-Concretism This book began with a simple...

...The messianic character of the Rastafari movement, and especially its apocalyptic representation of the future, deeply influences the daily life as well as worldview of the rastas. In reggae music, the eschatology is everywhere: it defines both practices and representations that belong...

... it is developing, examining the constitutional politics of the European Union, from the Single European Act to the Treaty of Nice and beyond. The ongoing debate on the future of Europe links together the questions of democracy and legitimacy, competences and rights, and the prospects for European polity-building...

... to the party. At certain times, Labour has also actively sought to reinstate and restore nostalgic visions of the past in the present. This chapter explores the significance of this book’s findings for the contemporary Labour Party and it outlines and problematizes potential future developments. Alternative...

... of the imagined new–old canon. Looking to the future of Romanticism in the classroom, the chapter prophesies a curriculum heavily influenced by the values and methods of creative writing and creative-critical practice – one that returns us to a modality of Romanticism we thought we had outgrown. Burns Robert...

... Stalinism Cycles Left Future Renegades are omnipresent figures throughout political history. They differ in kind rather than in substance: the circumstances and examples vary from period to period, but the essence of the renegade – the one-time radical opponent of the system who negotiates...

...A key – some might even say _the _key – curatorial role is to decide what to collect. What, that is, should be preserved for the future? In this essay, we present ethnographic research with curators of contemporary everyday life. As we show, these curators struggle with a profusion of things...

...This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this volume, which is about the new social democracy (NSD) and about imagining a social democratic future that diverts from the NSD. It examines how social democracy can be reinvigorated. This volume also explores the conjunction of social democracy...

...This chapter examines the possible links between sustainability and distributive justice, focusing on the welfare of future generations. It discusses the argument of Wilfred Beckerman and Joanna Pasek which holds that interests of future generations cannot be protected or promoted within...

...This chapter identifies some possible future NMD practices, and provides suggestions about the analytical approaches to the emerging strategies that are closely related to NMD. It also discusses the policy of pre-emption, one strategic phenomenon in US thinking of security ‘post-9/11’, which talks...

...This is the first interdisciplinary exploration of machine culture in Italian futurism after the First World War. The machine was a primary concern for the futuristi. As well as being a material tool in the factory it was a social and political agent, an aesthetic emblem...

... of the present—or ‘presence’—in everyday life. What we understand phenomenologically, through immediate perception, may return later to haunt us and the objects around us as a folding-over of time. The curator deciding what to collect for the future, how to interpret it in the present, and what it meant in its...

... self determination decolonization Cuba Czechoslovakia Hungary Iceland Korea Malta collective defense neutrality small states Cayman Islands extantism Timor Leste Cyprus Montenegro NATO particularism terrorism Survival Conclusion Outlook Future of small states Over more than three...

... fuel industry Indigenous peoples buen vivir good life Davis Mike Global North utopias cities economies neoliberalism socio natural processes Urban political ecology; future developments; major debates; research; policy We set out from three premises. First, that the historical conditions...

...This chapter reveals Labour’s, and especially the Conservatives’, embryonic secret plans for future minority or coalition governments during the 1970s, devised in response to the possible absence of an overall majority in a general election. Both main parties considered or rejected wide-ranging...

... Agreement Ulster Defence Association flag protests North Belfast Ulster Freedom Fighters Shades of grey Contradiction Identity Change Future Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary. (Milan Kundera, Immortality) As I look for a way to draw together the explorative...

... of the nation’s future-oriented, developmentalist imaginaries. costs hepatitis South Korea transmission vaccine development epidemics media war Asia Japan Blumberg Baruch epidemiology Kim Chung Young controversy beliefs campaigns public health epidemiologists policy compliance and non...

...This chapter presents several predictions on how the European dimension will affect the future of self-government in Scotland. It offers some reflections on Scotland's place in the European Union in the post-devolution period, and considers the possible influence that the European dimension...

...Chapter 6 examines the role of performance art to speculate on future urban living. Blast Theory’s app-based project Karen is discussed as an example of how performance art adapts to emerging technologies. This is followed by an account of Dante or Die’s User Not Found...