What if? : twenty-two scenarios in search of images

著者

• Flusser, Vilém
• Finger, Anke K.
• Kronenberg, Kenneth

書誌事項

What if? : twenty-two scenarios in search of images

Vilém Flusser ; translated by Anke Finger, Kenneth Kronenberg

University of Minnesota Press, 2022

• pbk.

注記

Translated from the German

内容説明・目次

内容説明

An imagination of possibilities, of miscalculations, of futures off-kilter "Probability is a chimera, its head is true, its tail a suggestion. Futurologists attempt to compel the head to eat the tail (ouroboros). Here, though, we will try to wag the tail." -Vilem Flusser Two years after his Vampyroteuthis Infernalis, the philosopher Vilem Flusser engaged in another thought experiment: a collection of twenty-two "scenarios for the future" to be produced as computer-generated media, or technical images, that would break the imaginative logjam in conceiving the social, political, and economic future of the universe. What If? is not just an "impossible journey" to which Flusser invites us in the first scenario; it functions also as a distorting mirror held up to humanity. Flusser's disarming scenarios of an Anthropocene fraught with nightmares offer new visions that range from the scientific to the fantastic to the playful and whimsical. Each essay reflects our present sense of understanding the world, considering the exploitation of nature and the dangers of global warming, overpopulation, and blind reliance on the promises of scientific knowledge and invention. What If? offers insight into the radical futures of a slipstream Anthropocene that have much to do with speculative fiction, with Flusser's concept of design as "crafty" or slippery, and with art and the immense creative potential of failure versus reasonable, "good" computing or calculability. As such, the book is both a warning and a nudge to imagine what we may yet become and be.

目次

Introduction: What If? Into the Slipstream of Flusser's "Field of Possibilities" Anke Finger First Scenario: What If . . . Part I. Scenes from Family Life Second Scenario: Grandmother Third Scenario: Grandfather Fourth Scenario: Great Uncle Fifth Scenario: Brothers Sixth Scenario: Son Seventh Scenario: Grandchildren Eighth Scenario: Great-Grandchildren Part II. Scenes from Economic Life Ninth Scenario: Economic Miracle Tenth Scenario: Foreign Aid Eleventh Scenario: Mechanical Engineering Twelfth Scenario: Agriculture Thirteenth Scenario: Chemical Industry Fourteenth Scenario: Animal Husbandry Part III. Scenes from Politics Fifteenth Scenario: War Sixteenth Scenario: Aural Obedience Seventeenth Scenario: Perpetual Peace Eighteenth Scenario: Revolution Nineteenth Scenario: Parliamentary Democracy Twentieth Scenario: Aryan Imperialism Twenty-First Scenario: Black Is Beautiful Part IV. Showdown Twenty-Second Scenario: A Breather Afterword Kenneth Goldsmith Acknowledgments Notes

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BC12582058
• ISBN:
  • 9781517913663
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 原本言語コード: ger
• 出版地: Minneapolis
• ページ数/冊数: 1 volume
• 大きさ: 22 cm
• 分類:
  • DC23 : 303.4901
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Forecasting -- Philosophy