... industrial ruins waste temporality machinery future imaginaries ...

... of the future, motivating miners underground and inflecting the politics of everyday life. industrial ruins waste temporality machinery future imaginaries ...

... methodological nationalism plausible future Atlantic history lived geography geographic unit of analysis mental map political imaginary nation-state Atlantic historian ...

... What happens to the postcolonial novelistic imaginary after 1989? What transformed Salman Rushdie from an exemplary author of the postcolonial novel to a vulnerable figure after 1989? These are some of the questions this chapter explores. Rushdie’s graphing of the necropolitical face of global...

... infrastructural environments? Which entities, living and nonliving, are relegated to the past and which are afforded a future? ontology inequality sociotechnical imaginaries racial formations ...

... This photo essay is comprised of a series of black and white photographic collages. The images combine window frames and landscapes from various personal and home-like places. A fluid combination of reality and imaginary that exist both in the past present and future. A constant collision...

... them understand how they were reshaping daily life and kinship imaginaries with their disabled children, now adults, many living at home as their support systems collapsed during COVID-19. The chapter considers how meaningful disability futures are both enhanced and challenged in public domains as well...

... As a signifier of techno-urban development, the Pacific Rim still enchants in its mysterious allure, as if this geo-imaginary moved toward a utopic destiny hailing disparate countries into its transnational coalition of region, place, community, motivation, and cultural identity. The vast...

... Struggles over the future of Detroit were indelibly shaped by pervasive mythmaking that manifested in cultural events like parades, photographic representation, ruin tourism, and general discourse. If anti-Black dystopian images of the city as an urban jungle and place to fear dominated...

... tarot tradition through the creation of culturally accessible decks, (2) frame tarot as self-care through a healing justice framework, and (3) engage tarot as an emergent strategy for activating political imaginaries in service of conjuring a just future. This analysis is situated in a genealogical...

... The discourse of “new Shanghai people” that has become pervasive in discussions of the city’s future development represents an attempt to articulate Shanghai identity to broader nationalist imaginaries originally suspicious of the city, a means by which the city can repay a perceived debt...

... contributes to gdp, and hence the identification of forms of surplus life and life not worth being born. More than an object of calculation, the macroeconomy became a phantasmagram in which numbers were charged with imaginaries, desires, and feelings that went beyond their facticity. While early practices...

... In two parts, this chapter first describes how middle-class clubwomen imagined a maternalist, caring state that could enact eugenics consensually. This imaginary is shown in the utopian novel Herland published by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1915. The second half of the chapter speculates...

... by showing that from the vantage point of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century New Granada’s Caribbean shores, it was possible to imagine futures that did not lead to the creation of the Colombian republic that ended up emerging in the aftermath of the Spanish American wars of independence. Using...

... of affects and imaginaries. The exuberant infrastructures built for averting birth stood in contrast to those for averting death from diarrhea and were manifest in the different benefits to gdp calculated for preventing life versus preventing death. This arc shows how some (and not other) kinds...

..., creating alternative possibilities for building accessible futures? kinship crip kinship crip time normalcy kinship imaginaries ...

..., urging the globe at once toward annihilation, yet also toward transactional and dialogical unity at the transnational border of national self-imagining. As an ethical and aesthetic mandate for the new millennium, repression of Hiroshima within the American political imaginary needs to be symbolically...

... in a scientific renewal of “pan-Asianism” by getting disparate colleagues together as a single biomedical commons. Despite a new imaginary of a unified Asian past-present and potentially collective present-future in science, it remains unpredictable whether deep trans-Asian factionalism can be overcome...

...Techno Frictions and Fantasies Chapter 4 looks at how Silicon Valley imperialism builds on Cold War imaginaries while disavowing its own technofascist past. It explores the role of IBM in powering Romania’s presocialist genocidal project while also looking at the company’s postsocialist...