Every time anybody says science fiction predicts the future, I predict science fiction has less of a future.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 30, 2015
Science fiction, like all literature, comments on and testifies to the present.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 30, 2015
"The Future" does not, nor will it ever, exist. Futurity is the openness in the present inhering in the diversity of those making the world.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 30, 2015
"The Future" is always an ad through which beneficiaries of the status quo sell its amplification to those exploited in and by it.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 30, 2015
2 comments:
One thing that bugged me in undergrad Political Economy was how some economic projections (the ones I remember were complicated formulas which predicted that this or that global south country would be in this or that place at this or that time) appeared to ameliorate the need for present action and assumed much about what could be, optimistically predicting some radical change in some foreign 'future'.
The ameliorating for the present and not umderstanding it is the common job of political economy for the last 200 years just
check out Marx or Proudhon or any of the old "ricardian" socialists.
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