Topic outline

  • General

    Welcome!

    This course focuses on various ways how the future is produced in the present, either through predictions, speculations, or narratives. The aim to offer a wide array of approaches to future-orientated thought, particularly focusing on how different disciplines use (and possibly abuse) the future in their attempts to understand the world.

    Throughout the course, we will tackle the following questions: What do visions of the future tell about the present? What does it mean to examine the future historically? How do different disciplines construct different visions of the future?

    We will learn about different ways how the future is imagined, constructed, and negotiated in the intersection between art, science, technology, and business. We will also learn about the history of future-orientated thought. Eventually, our aim is to reflect on our own understanding of the future in relation to the variety of disciplinary backgrounds we represent.

    Honoré Daumier: Le véritable lutteur masqué (1867) [https://art.famsf.org/honoré-daumier/le-véritable-lutteur-masqué-no-238-series-actualités-1956352]

    Honoré Daumier: Le véritable lutteur masqué (1867)

    https://art.famsf.org/honoré-daumier/le-véritable-lutteur-masqué-no-238-series-actualités-1956352