Memories of the Future
On Countervision
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Excerpt
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface (Deborah Jaffé)
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction (Stephen Wilson)
- Part I: Memories of the Future: On Countervision
- 1 The Plot against the Future (Malcolm Quinn)
- 2 Three Moves for a Single Advent/Event: (a) From Modern Fiction to the Latest Seriality; (b) Means instead of Ends; (c) The Revolt of Technics against Human Progress (Alberto Abruzzese (translated by Kevin W. Molin))
- Part II: Intersections of Memory, Formative Experience and Learned Culture
- 3 Mortal Engines and The Hunger Games: How Myths from the Past Shape Visions of a Sustainable Future and the Responsibility for It as Represented in Children’s Literature (Julia Eccleshare)
- 4 Girl Acting Out: Revisiting the Fairy Tale Futures of Little Red Riding Hood and Snow White (Sarah Bonner)
- 5 Mirror: Time Will Darken Paper (Penny McCarthy)
- 6 School of Change: Re-dreaming Past Futures (Jennet Thomas)
- Part III: The Reconditioning of Time
- 7 The Blackening of Epekeina Tes Ousias: The Death of the Sun and the Death of Philosophy (Liam Sprod)
- 8 The Attention Economy: From Cyber-Time to Cinematic Time (Claudio Celis Bueno)
- 9 Counterfiction: Designing within Alternative Worlds (Austin Houldsworth)
- Part IV: Future Permissions and Former Horizons
- 10 Seizing the Future: The Futurists and Future-oriented Contemporary Works (Ilaria Puri Purini)
- 11 From Hardware to Softwear: The Future Memories of Techno-Fashion (Anneke Smelik and Lianne Toussaint)
- 12 (Un)knotting Time: Imagining Past Futures in Early Victorian Street Ballads (Karl Bell)
- Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- Series Index
Sara Bonner – Girl Acting Out: Revisiting the Fairy Tale Futures of Little Red Riding Hood and Snow White
Firstly, we want to thank those who have contributed to this book, especially all the authors and artists who have given their time and dedication to make it possible. We are grateful to the following institutions: Chelsea College of Art, CCW Research Graduate School, University of the Arts, London; The Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory, Institute of Modern Language Research, University of London; Columbia University, The Department of Anthropology, New York; The Frick Art Reference Library, New York; The British Library, London; The Wiener Library, London; Chetham’s Library, Manchester; Jess Nevins at Lone Star College-Tomball, thank you for making a steam arm possible; Pace Gallery; Katie Paterson, Ingleby Gallery; and Josh Blackwell, Kate MacGarry Gallery.
Finally, thanks must go to Laurel Plapp and her team at Peter Lang for their support. ← xv | xvi →
Details
- Pages
- XVI, 284
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781787075740
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781787075757
- ISBN (MOBI)
- 9781787075764
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783034319355
- DOI
- 10.3726/b11142
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2017 (May)
- Keywords
- memories of the future memory studies future studies technology and counter-cultural production art and design
- Published
- Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2017. XVI, 284 pp., 38 b/w ill.
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