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Editorial Essay: Networked Utopias and Speculative Futures

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Editorial Essay: Networked Utopias and Speculative Futures
Abstract/Description
The future began somewhere. The impulse behind this issue of The Fibreculture Journal was a crisis of imagination with regards to how the future might look and behave. Our starting point was the notion of post-millennial tension – the idea that in the decades following the year 2000 we find ourselves living in an era that was meant to be the future, but where many of our futuristic hopes and fantasies remain unfulfilled. Worse, our historical visions of hyper-technological futures seem to have propelled us into a perilous position where humankind may not have any kind of future at all. In the space between ever-hopeful techno-futurism and the realities of a world forever changed by the pursuit of the resources required to fuel it, we asked if the age-old concept of utopia still has the strength to generate galvanising visions of the future.
Date
2012
In publication
The Fiberculture Journal: Digital Media + Networks + Transdisciplinary Critique
Issue
20
Pages
1-9
Resource type
en
Medium
en Print
Background/context type
en Conceptual
Open access/free-text available
en Yes
Peer reviewed
en Yes
Citation
Ballard, S., Joyce, Z., & Muller, L. (2012). Editorial Essay: Networked Utopias and Speculative Futures. The Fiberculture Journal: Digital Media + Networks + Transdisciplinary Critique (20), 1–9.
Resource status/form
en
Scholarship genre
en

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