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The Darkness Where the Future Should Be
There are times when it seems as though not only the future but the present is dark: few recognize what a radically transformed world we live in, one that has been transformed not only by such nightmares as global warming and global capital but by dreams of freedom, of justice, and transformed by things we could not have dreamed of.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
The future is broken and we are left stranded in the long now, doomscrolling idly, waiting out the end of the end of the world.
Liam Young • Planet City
It is no wonder that under the influence of these pulls, tensions, and clashes (in addition to the supposed responsibility for cultural “transformation”) we become unable – and dis-abled – to cope, let alone act.Imagination requires energy and the mental capacity (space and time) to dream. With unrelenting pressure to get by, perhaps to make it, to... See more