ABSTRACT

This edited collection highlights the valuable ontological and creative insights gathered from anticipation studies, which orients itself to the future in order to recreate the present.  

The gathered essays engage with many writers from speculative metaphysics to poetic philosophy, ancient writing systems to the fringes of pataphysics. The book situates itself as a creative intervention in and with various thinkers, designers, artists, scientists and poets to offer insight into ways of anticipating. It brings together philosophical practices for which creativity is both a fundamental area of consideration and a mode of working, a characterization of recent Continental Philosophy which takes a departure from traditional futures studies thinking.   

This book will be of interest to scholars and research in futures studies, anticipation, philosophy, creative practice and theories about creative practice, as well as the intersections between philosophy, creativity and business.

chapter 3|25 pages

Flowing or frozen anticipation?

Runes and the creativity of time

chapter 4|19 pages

Ernst Bloch’s ontology of not-yet being

Intuiting the possibility of anticipation’s fulfilment

chapter 5|16 pages

Are scenarios creative?

Questioning movement and innovation in anticipation practices

chapter 7|30 pages

For a creative ontology of the future

An ode to love

chapter 8|25 pages

Inventive devices and public issues

The Air Pollution Toile