| Physical description |
360 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-354) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction : histories of the future / Daniel Rosenberg and Susan Harding -- 2. A notebook on desert modernism : from the Nevada test site to Liberace's two-hundred-pound suit / Joseph Masco -- 3. How to make resources in order to destroy them (and then save them?) on the salvage frontier / Anna Tsing -- 4. The cell phone and the crowd : messianic politics in the contemporary Philippines / Vicente L. Rafael -- Interlude I. Global futures : the game / Anna Tsing and Elizabeth Pollman -- 5. Electronic memory / Daniel Rosenberg -- 6. All that is solid melts into sauce : futurists, surrealists, and molded food / Jamer Hunt -- 7. Sing out Ubik / Pamela Jackson -- Interlude II. Access fantasy : a story / Jonathan Lethem -- 8. Subject, city, machine / Miryam Sas -- Interlude III. Manifesto of the Japanese futurist movement / Hirato Renkichi -- 9. The future of the old economy : new deal motives in new economy investors / Christopher Newfield -- 10. Why Rachel isn't buried at her grave : ghosts, UFOS, and a place in the west / Susan Lepselter -- Interlude IV. The trouble with timelines and a timeline of timelines / Daniel Rosenberg and Sasha Archibald -- 11. Living prophecy at Heaven's Gate / Susan Harding -- 12. Trauma time : a still life / Kathleen Stewart. |
| Other author |
Rosenberg, Daniel, 1966-
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Harding, Susan Friend.
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| Subject |
Forecasting.
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| ISBN |
0822334852 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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0822334739 (paperback: alkaline paper) |
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