A constant striving was endemic to the human situation, Søren Kierkegaard considered, since at the heart of every individual life was a tension and unrest concerning future possibilities: “eternally it [...]
What happens to a progressive temporal orientation when the future is cancelled out? How might social life be invested with a futural drive but without an end-point to guide anticipatory [...]
At one of the busiest roundabouts of north Nicosia, Cyprus’s divided capital, two men film for an online comedy program, standing at a small cafe table while traffic rushes by. [...]
92-year old Milja lives in a village in the Latvian-Russian borderlands that emerged in the middle of the 19th century next to a railway station on the St. Petersburg-Warsaw line. [...]
The anthropology of time has achieved at least three things. Empirically, it explored the many ways humans relate to time and all things temporal. Theoretically, it embedded the analyses of [...]
“We have to look towards the future of our people, of our community. We can’t just sit back and let others say what we can be in the world. I [...]
At the beginning of the song, a stern impersonal voice announces: “May I have your attention, please? The future that you anticipated has been cancelled. Please remain seated and wait [...]
In Sevdalinka, a singer from Serbia evokes estrangement from the present and apprehension about the future in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). [1] This song also contains a rare passage [...]
“I fear the future,” Christina tells me as we walk through the bustling streets of the Monday market in late 2017. “Years ago, I could not wait to escape this [...]
The ruins of global financial collapse, millions displaced by armed conflict, the resurgence of right-wing populism, and imminent ecological disaster. The future is emphatically at the heart of anthropological critique. [...]
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