With Our Backs to the Future

Authors

  • Craig Gent University of Warwick

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51151/identities.v11i1.295

Keywords:

accelerationism, time, temporality, the future

Abstract

“The future has been cancelled,” declares the ‘accelerationist manifesto.’ But where does this lead us? Concepts such as ‘time’ and ‘the future’ are almost ineffably broad once given a degree of sustained concentration. In this essay, I look to the relationship between temporality (as our phenomenological experience of what is to come) and historicity (in the sense of the direction of society) in order to question how our perception of temporality in the everyday conditions our perception of the horizon of possibilities which comprise the future, particularly with regard to conceiving or imagining a future which is non-capitalist.

Author(s): Craig Gent

Title (English): With Our Backs to the Future

Journal Reference: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Summer 2015)

Publisher: Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities – Skopje 

Page Range: 49-60

Page Count: 11

Citation (English): Craig Gent, “With Our Backs to the Future,” Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Summer 2015): 49-60.

Author Biography

Craig Gent, University of Warwick

Craig Gent is a doctoral researcher in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick, UK. His primary research interests are the philosophy of work, autonomous Marxism and digital technology. He can be contacted at C.Gent@warwick.ac.uk.

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Published

2015-01-01

How to Cite

Gent, C. (2015). With Our Backs to the Future. Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, 11(1), 49-60. https://doi.org/10.51151/identities.v11i1.295

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Vol. 11 No. 1 (2015): Vol. 11, No. 1 (Summer 2015) - Issue No. 22 | Topic: The Future of the Idea of the Left

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