An anthropologically based interdisciplinary collection on sites and projections of imagined futures from conspiracy theorists to technological dystopias.
An anthropologically based interdisciplinary collection on sites and projections of imagined futures from conspiracy theorists to technological dystopias.
Daniel Rosenberg is Assistant Professor of History in the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon. He specializes in the intellectual and cultural history of the French Enlightenment. Susan Harding is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her most recent book is The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics.
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Acknowledgments ix 1. Introduction: Histories of the Future / Daniel Rosenberg and Susan Harding 1 2. A Notebook on Desert Modernism: From the Nevada Test Site to Liberace's Two-Hundred-Pound Suit / Joseph Masco 19 3. How to Make Resources in Order to Destroy Them (and Then Save Them?) on the Salvage Frontier / Anna Tsing 51 4. The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Politics in the Contemporary Philippines / Vicente L. Rafael 75 Interlude I. Global Futures: The Game / Anna Tsing and Elizabeth Pollman 105 5. Electronic Memory / Daniel Rosenberg 123 6. All That Is Solid Melts into Sauce: Futurists, Surrealists, and Molded Food / Jamar Hunt 153 7. Sing Out Ubik / Pamela Jackson 171 Interlude II. Access Fantasy: A Story / Jonathan Lethem 185 8. Subject, City, Machine / Miryam Sas 202 Interlude III. Manifesto of the Japanese Futurist Movement / Hirato Renkichi (Translated by Miryam Sas) 225 9. The Future of the Old Economy: New Deal Motives in New Economy Investors / Christopher Newfield 231 10. Why Rachel Isn't Buried at Her Grave: Ghosts, UFOs, and a Place in the West / Susan Lepselter 255 Interlude IV. The Trouble with Timelines and a Timeline of Timelines / Daniel Rosenberg and Sasha Archibald 281 11. Living Prophecy at Heaven's Gate / Susan Harding 297 12. Trauma Time: A Still Life / Kathleen Stewart 321 Bibliography 341 Notes on Contributors 355 Index 357
Acknowledgments ix 1. Introduction: Histories of the Future / Daniel Rosenberg and Susan Harding 1 2. A Notebook on Desert Modernism: From the Nevada Test Site to Liberace's Two-Hundred-Pound Suit / Joseph Masco 19 3. How to Make Resources in Order to Destroy Them (and Then Save Them?) on the Salvage Frontier / Anna Tsing 51 4. The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Politics in the Contemporary Philippines / Vicente L. Rafael 75 Interlude I. Global Futures: The Game / Anna Tsing and Elizabeth Pollman 105 5. Electronic Memory / Daniel Rosenberg 123 6. All That Is Solid Melts into Sauce: Futurists, Surrealists, and Molded Food / Jamar Hunt 153 7. Sing Out Ubik / Pamela Jackson 171 Interlude II. Access Fantasy: A Story / Jonathan Lethem 185 8. Subject, City, Machine / Miryam Sas 202 Interlude III. Manifesto of the Japanese Futurist Movement / Hirato Renkichi (Translated by Miryam Sas) 225 9. The Future of the Old Economy: New Deal Motives in New Economy Investors / Christopher Newfield 231 10. Why Rachel Isn't Buried at Her Grave: Ghosts, UFOs, and a Place in the West / Susan Lepselter 255 Interlude IV. The Trouble with Timelines and a Timeline of Timelines / Daniel Rosenberg and Sasha Archibald 281 11. Living Prophecy at Heaven's Gate / Susan Harding 297 12. Trauma Time: A Still Life / Kathleen Stewart 321 Bibliography 341 Notes on Contributors 355 Index 357
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