Critical Futures

For me, Critical Futures refers to a critical examination of existing images of the future. Critical Futures Studies is the more academic approach while Critical Futures is the umbrella term for all critical work that can also happen in Foresight projects, journalistic work, and many other contexts.

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Article – Beyond Capitalist Realism
‘Beyond Capitalist Realism – Why We Need Critical Future Studies’ by Luke Goode and Micheal Godhe (PDF)
Comparable and related approaches
This article is part of my [[Master’s Thesis - Future Imaginaries]]. Previous Chapter: 2.2 [[Imaginaries]]
Critical Futures Studies
The field of [[Futures Studies]] describes “the scientific concern with possible, desirable and probable future developments”1. While the majority of...
Paper – From Critique to Cultural Recovery
A monograph by [[José M. Ramos]] titled From Critique to Cultural Recovery – Critical futures studies and Causal Layered Analysis...
Future Imaginaries from Goode and Godhe
This article is part of my [[Master’s Thesis - Future Imaginaries]]. Previous Chapter: 2.3.4 [[Imaginaries from Lockton and Candy]]
Images of the Future from Inayatullah
This article is part of my [[Master’s Thesis - Future Imaginaries]]. Previous Chapter: 2.1.2 [[Pull of the Future]] from Polak...
Introduction
This article is part of my [[Master’s Thesis - Future Imaginaries]].
Key questions in critical futures studies
At the heart of [[Critical Futures Studies]] (CFS), as articulated by [[Sohail Inayatullah]], lies the endeavor to “loosen the future.”...
Literature on Critical Futures Studies
Maybe one of the best ways to dive deeper into Critical Futures Studies is a monograph by [[José M. Ramos]]...
Master's Thesis – Future Imaginaries
I did my master’s in futures research from 2017 to 2020 at the FU Berlin. In my master’s thesis, submitted...
No future is neutral
It is one of the most glaring oversights in the often sanitized and made digestible work on futures in corporate...
Pull of the Future
This article is part of my [[Master’s Thesis - Future Imaginaries]]. Previous Chapter: 2.1.1 [[Present futures]] from Grunwald
Research Questions
This article is part of my [[Master’s Thesis - Future Imaginaries]]. Previous Chapter: 1.2 [[Approach]]
Roles of Future Imaginaries
This article is part of my [[Master’s Thesis - Future Imaginaries]]. Previous Chapter: 3.2.2 [[Components of future imaginaries]]
Situating the Researcher
This article is part of my [[Master’s Thesis - Future Imaginaries]]. Previous Chapter: 1.4 [[Critical Futures Studies]]
Sohail Inayatullah
Sohail Inayatullah - the first “UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies” - has had a lasting impact on futures studies, especially...
What good is scientific rigor when nobody gives a shit?
This note is based on a Twitter thread I wrote while attending a futures studies conference in Finnland.
Critical Futures
For me, Critical Futures refers to a critical examination of existing images of the future. [[Critical Futures Studies]] is the...

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