Orientations to the Future

Edited by Rebecca Bryant and Daniel M. Knight

Mar 08, 2019

Orientations to the Future:

An Introduction

by Rebecca Bryant and Daniel M. Knight

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The long road to somewhere

Time of Crisis:

Permanence as Orientation

by Daniel M. Knight

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Snapshot of Greece, December 2013

Yearnings:

On Keeping the Present and the Past at the Heart of an Anthropology of the Future

by Stef Jansen

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Hopes past: the logo of the 1984 Winter Olympics on an apartment block in Dobrinja, Sarajevo, built as a press village for the event. (Vanja Čelebičić, 2008)

Crisis, Migration, and the Cancellation of Anticipated Futures

by Kristín Loftsdóttir

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Window in the room of a paperless migrant.

Religious Humanitarianism and Fateful Orientations among Pentecostal Kaale

by Raluca Bianca Roman

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Missionary village with horse and carriage in the distance.

Sustainability as Orientation:

Towards Sustainable Urban Futures

by Felix Ringel

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Fishery harbor, Bremerhaven, featuring the largest wind turbine in the world.

The Timespace of Emptiness

by Dace Dzenovska

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Abundant apple tree next to an abandoned building.

The Stubborn Stasis of the Status Quo

by Rebecca Bryant

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Beyond the Punchline:

Mythic Involution as Recursive Futural Orientation among Stand-up Comics in New York City

by Morten Nielsen

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Comedy Cellar.

A Cosmopolitan Orientation to the Future as Human Birthright

by Nigel Rapport

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Søren Kierkegaard.