ISBN:
9780822334736
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (375 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Histories of the Future
DDC:
303.49
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
An anthropologically based interdisciplinary collection on sites and projections of imagined futures from conspiracy theorists to technological dystopias
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Histories of the Future; A Notebook on Desert Modernism: From the Nevada Test Site to Liberace's Two-Hundred-Pound Suit; How to Make Resources in Order to Destroy Them (and Then Save Them?) on the Salvage Frontier; The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Politics in the Contemporary Philippines; Interlude 1: Global Futures: The Game; Electronic Memory; All That Is Solid Melts into Sauce: Futurists, Surrealists, and Molded Food; Sing Out Ubik; Intelude 2: Access Fantasy: A Story; Subject, City, Machine
Description / Table of Contents:
Interlude 3: Manifesto of the Japanese Futurist MovementThe Future of the Old Economy: New Deal Motives in New Economy Investors; Why Rachel Isn't Buried at Her Grave: Ghosts, UFOs, and a Place in the West; Interlude 4: The Trouble with Timelines and A Timeline of Timelines; Living Prophecy at Heaven's Gate; Trauma Time: A Still Life; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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