Future Theory: A Handbook to Critical Concepts

By interrogating the terms and concepts most central to the urgent task of examining cultural change as a process of dynamic transition, this volume approaches the question of transition from multiple perspectives. As a result, it demonstrates how entangled the highly politicized spheres of cultural production, scientific invention, and intellectual discourse are in the contemporary world.Critical Transitions is organized into five clusters of concepts – boundaries, organization, rupture, novelty, futurity – all examined by leading and emerging thinkers in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, spanning fields including geography, literary studies, cultural theory, philosophy, and politics.