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Felix Ringel. Back to the Postindustrial Future
BACK TO THE POSTINDUSTRIAL FUTURE
Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Translations
Abbreviations
Introduction. Anthropology and the Future
Introducing Hoyerswerda
Anthropology and Presentism: Past, Present and Future Reconsidered
The Future in the Present
The Future as an Epistemic Problem
Knowledge and Time/Knowledge in Time
Conclusion: Knowledge in Motion
Notes
1 ‘There Can Only Be One Narrative’
ONE NARRATIVE
The Local Construction of Context
The Politics of Context
Social Science Contexts: Postmodernism
Marxism as/in Context
Postsocialism as Context
Shrinkage as Context
Leaving the City
Conclusion: In and out of Context
Notes
2. Reasoning about the Past
Reasoning about the Past
Temporal Complexity
Unintended Clashes: Divergent Takes on ‘Commemoration’ and ‘the Future’
Past Politics of Local Youth
Being Drawn into the Politics of the Past
Conclusion: Towards Different Futures
Notes
3 ‘Hoyerswerda…?’ – ‘…Once Had a Future!’
Evacuating the Future
From Planning to Hope
Temporal Regimes in Time: A History of Hoyerswerda’s Future
Local Clashes and Temporal Flexibility
Reclaiming the Future
Conclusion: The Future after Shrinkage
Notes
4. Enforced Futurism/Prescribed Hopes
Imposed Threat: Affective Politics of the Future
Affect and the Future
Prescribed Optimism: The Pedagogies of Enforced Futurism
Advertising for the Future: The Efficacy of ‘Affective Images’ and Hopeful Knowledge
Conclusion: From Hope to Serenity
Notes
5. Performing the Future
New Traditions and Practices of Permanence
Claiming Sustainability: The Future of Braugasse 1
Teleology and Continuity: The Future of Self-Formation
From Emergence and Becoming to Maintenance and Permanence
Conclusion
Notes
Conclusion
The Present of the Future
Beyond Shrinkage?
‘Hoyerswerda is Alive!’
Belonging to the Present
Note
Bibliography
Index
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