What Happened to Our Dreams of the Future?

What if we stopped treating the future like a speculative asset and started trying to actually build and prepare? The ACFM gang look to the horizon in this Trip episode.

Did young people always worry so much about their futures? Has the currency of emergency been devalued? Does conservatism have an idea of the future? Nadia, Jem and Keir wonder what’s next with ideas from Max Weber and Kate Raworth, and music from LTJ Bukem and FKA twigs.

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Music: Zager & Evans – In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus) / Spontaneous Music Ensemble – Karyōbin / Tubeway Army – Are ‘Friends’ Electric? / Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level / FKA twigs – Drums of Death / LTJ Bukem – Horizons / Kraftwerk – Computer Love

Books and articles: Jonathan White – In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea / Reinhart Koselleck – Futures Past / E.P. Thompson – The Making of the English Working Class / Nick Srnicek & Alex Williams – Inventing the Future / Rahel Jaeggi – Progress & Regression / Reinhart Koselleck – Futures Past / A safe operating space for humanity – Rockstrom et al, 2009 / Kate Raworth – Doughnut Economics / Derrida – Spectres of Marx / Max Weber – The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism / Andreas Malm & – Wim Carton – Overshoot / Angela McRobbie – The Aftermath of Feminism