The Present of the Future.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (225 pages)
The Present of the Future -- Editor's Preface -- In Search of the Future -- Reality of the Future and Future Reality -- Plans will not help realise a projected future -- B-Levels -- Project Class Nora Schultz -- May You Live in Interesting Times -- Cassandra is powerless -- Occupying the Future -- Each time I believe that things are predictable I get sick -- Why the News Anyway -- You cannot order scientific results like a pizza -- Negotiating the Future -- To explore the speculative is urgent and necessary -- Infra-structuring the Future: Catastrophe, Crisis, Critique -- The imaginary of catastrophe is actually incorporated more and more into the evereyday -- Catastrophic Reproduction: Science Fiction on the Far Side of the Subject -- I'm that Angel -- Project Class Tyler Coburn -- The Future of the Body -- Augmented Embodiments -- Become parahuman -- The Authors -- Table of Figures -- Colophon.