Description
This edited collection highlights the valuable ontological and creative insights gathered from anticipation studies, which orients itself to the future in order to recreate the present.
The gathered essays engage with many writers from speculative metaphysics to poetic philosophy, ancient writing systems to the fringes of pataphysics. The book situates itself as a creative intervention in and with various thinkers, designers, artists, scientists and poets to offer insight into ways of anticipating. It brings together philosophical practices for which creativity is both a fundamental area of consideration and a mode of working, a characterization of recent Continental Philosophy which takes a departure from traditional futures studies thinking.
This book will be of interest to scholars and research in futures studies, anticipation, philosophy, creative practice and theories about creative practice, as well as the intersections between philosophy, creativity and business.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to a Creative Philosophy of Anticipation
Jamie Brassett and John O’Reilly
2. Anticipation, Creativity and Picture Perception
Mark Donoghue
3. Flowing or Frozen Anticipation? Runes and the Creativity of Time
Anne Marchais-Roubelat
4. Ernst Bloch’s Ontology of Not-Yet Being: Intuiting the Possibility of Anticipation’s Fulfilment
Nathaniel J.P. Barron
5. Are Scenarios Creative? Questioning Movement and Innovation in Anticipation Practices
Fabrice Roubelat
6. Becoming Other-wise as the Practice of Anticipation
John O’Reilly
7. For a Creative Ontology of the Future: An Ode to Love
Jamie Brassett
8. Inventive Devices and Public Issues: The Air Pollution Toile
Lucy Kimbell
9. The Anticipatory Power of the Objectile
Derek Hales
10. 2078/1978. Anticipation and the Contemporary
Jamie Brassett and John O’Reilly
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