num_pages: 400
description: Futures and Fictions is a book of essays and conversations that explore possibilities for a different political imaginary or more simply the imagining and imaging of alternate narratives and image-worlds that might be pitched against the impasses of our neoliberal present. In particular the book contributes to prescient discussions around decolonization post-capitalism and new kinds of social movements  exploring the intersections of these with contemporary art practice and visual culture. Contributions range from work on science sonic and financial fictions and alternative space-time plots to myths and images generated by marginalized and minor communities queer-feminist strategies of fictioning and the production of new Afro- and other futurisms.Contributors to thsi volume include Ursula K. Le Guin Theo Reeves-Evisson Bridget Crone Kodwo Eshun Louis Moreno Laboria Cuboniks Luciana Parisi Stefan Helmreich Mark Fisher Judy Thorne Annett Busch Harold Offeh Robin Mackay Elvira Dyangani Ose Kemang Wa Lehulere and Oreet Ashery.
language: English
title: Futures and Fictions: Essays and Conversations that Explore Alternative Narratives and Image Worlds that Might Be Pitched Against the Impasses of our Neo-Liberal Present
publisher: Repeater