Future Imaginaries
Basic Definition
‘Future Imaginaries’ are collective expectations of the future that have become so self-evident that they influence social behavior largely unconsciously and without reflection. They are a sociological phenomenon.
Details
- Condensation of Future Imaginaries
- Characteristics of Future Imaginaries
- Components of future imaginaries
- Roles of future imaginaries
See my master’s thesis on Future Imaginaries for much more.
Linked References
Characteristics of Future Imaginaries
This article is part of my Master’s Thesis - Future Imaginaries.
Previous Chapter: 3.2 Condensation of Future Imaginaries
Comparable and related approaches
This article is part of my Master’s Thesis - Future Imaginaries.
Previous Chapter: 2.2 Imaginaries
Cultural Lag and Cultural Lead
The standard model for how technology and culture interact has a name: Cultural Lag. Technology arrives, society scrambles to catch...
Cultural Undercurrents
When we talk about “trends” in our contemporary discourse, we often conflate surface-level behavioral shifts with deeper structural transformations. I’ve...
Fictional Expectations from Beckert
This article is part of my Master’s Thesis - Future Imaginaries.
Previous Chapter: 2.3.1 Future Imaginaries from Cook
Goals
This article is part of my Master’s Thesis - Future Imaginaries.
Previous Chapter: 1. Introduction
Imaginaries from Lockton and Candy
This article is part of my Master’s Thesis - Future Imaginaries.
Previous Chapter: 2.3.3 Sociotechnical Imaginaries from Jasanoff
Imagination Economy
This is a Primer
primer on the Imagination Economy.
Legal Foresight
This is a Primer
primer on Legal Foresight.
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...
Observations from the examination of futures and imaginaries
This article is part of my Master’s Thesis - Future Imaginaries. Previous Chapter: 2.3.5 Future Imaginaries from Goode and Godhe...
Official future
The Official Future Is Dead! Long Live the Official Future! by Nils Gilman
Reactance and future narratives
The louder someone insists a particular future is inevitable, the more people push back. Not because the future described is...
Sociotechnical Imaginaries from Jasanoff
This article is part of my Master’s Thesis - Future Imaginaries.
Previous Chapter: 2.3.2 Fictional Expectations from Beckert
Tools for the examination of future imaginaries
This article is part of my Master’s Thesis - Future Imaginaries. Previous Chapter: 4 Outlook – Application of future imaginaries...
Trends
_This is a Primer
primer. A related note is Trend Report
This is not a trend report._
Utopia
_This is a Primer
primer on utopia. Related notes: Utopia as Method, Real Utopias_