Towards a futurist cultural studies

Cultural studies is a future-oriented discipline, but it at best maintains tangential connections to futurism, a field of study devoted to the systematic study of the future. Why? This essay endeavors to answer that question. It explores how cultural studies has conceptualized ‘the future’ and ident...

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Published inInternational journal of cultural studies Vol. 23; no. 4; pp. 451 - 457
Main Author Powers, Devon
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.07.2020
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Cultural studies
Future
Futures
Sociology of culture
critical future studies
futurology
futurism
futures
cultural studies
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Summary:Cultural studies is a future-oriented discipline, but it at best maintains tangential connections to futurism, a field of study devoted to the systematic study of the future. Why? This essay endeavors to answer that question. It explores how cultural studies has conceptualized ‘the future’ and identifies some of the limits of those conceptions. The article then speculates on what futurism and cultural studies might gain from more robust and purposeful integration.
ISSN:1367-8779
1460-356X
DOI:10.1177/1367877920913569