Ecologies of Collapse, Chronopolitics, and Justice-to-Come
by T. J. Demos
- Author(s)
- T. J. Demos
- Publication
- London : Sternberg , 2023
- Scope
- 224 Pages, illustrated, 21.5 cm.
- ISBN
- 9783956795275
There is widespread consensus that we are living at the end - of democracy, of liberalism, of capitalism, of a healthy planet, of the Holocene, of civilization as we know it. In this book, drawing on radical futurisms and visions of justice-to-come emerging from the traditions of the oppressed - Indigenous, African-American, multispecies, anti-capitalist - as materialized in experimental visual cultural, new media, aesthetic practices, and social movements, T. J. Demos poses speculative questions about what comes after end-of-world narratives. He argues that it's as vital to defeat fatalistic nihilism as it is to defeat the false solutions of green capitalism and algorithmic governance. How might we decolonize the future, and cultivate an emancipated chronopolitics in relation to an undetermined not-yet? If we are to avoid climate emergency's coöptation by technofixes, and the defuturing of multitudes by xenophobic eco-fascism, Demos argues, we must cultivate visions of just futurity and multispecie flourishing.
- Person as subject
- Arthur Jafa, Otolith Group, Jonas Staal, ...[et al.]
- Keywords
- future scenario's
- Location
- Cabinet 30 - 3: Kunst en Rechtspraak
- Remarks
- Includes notes
