Posts Tagged ‘future’
Future Perfect – Subjectivity in Times of Uncertainty: Public Lecture
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on August 10th, 2010
Presented by Prof Renata Salecl, London School of Economics & Birkbeck College School of Law:
We live in times of uncertainty, where the feelings of anxiety are on the rise. However, we seem to be encouraged by contemporary science to think about lives as being open to endless improvement. The ideology of choice which dominates post-industrial capitalism has created a new mythology of science which has radically affected the way we perceive subjectivity. However the idea that our lives as being capable of ever new improvements, that we can prevent risks to happen and that we can predict when things might go wrong has paradoxically resulted in an increase of feelings of guilt and inadequacy. This lecture will look at how the idea of the perfect future has affected the way we look at reproduction, raising of children, delinquency, aging and death.
Thursday 12th August 2010, 6-7pm
Gryphon Gallery, 1888 Building
The University of Melbourne
School of Social & Political Sciences
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Launch of Future Scenarios website
Posted in Visions by Ferne Edwards on August 25th, 2008
David Holmgren, well-known permaculturalist, has developed his global scenario planning into a website called Future Scenarios, www.FutureScenarios.org.
As stated by Holmgren on the site:
“FutureScenarios.org presents an integrated approach to understanding the potential interaction between Climate Change and Peak Oil using a scenario planning model. In the process I introduce permaculture as a design system specifically evolved over the last 30 years to creatively respond to futures that involve progressively less and less available energy.”
A press release about this new website can be found at: http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/2008/05/futurescenarios/.