[AUT] future perfect

[Erik Empson <erikempson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It occurrs to me that most of us are actually thinking about the future, because that's how we cope with the extraction of our surplus energies in the present - hence better job, education, kids, home owner blah de blah. Its thinking about how to make the present more agreeable that gives rise to most complications; ones that come from the future so to speak.

Erik

p.s. Thomas, re: an earlier post, I'd learned to deal with the dodgy naming of hair salons: Headmasters, Top Cut, Ali Barber, Heads up, Short Cut, Locksmith, Sophisticuts but the one down the road from me is called, inexplicably, Peculiar, underneath which is written "Jesus is Lord". Now that's just plain wrong isn't it?

> Who can save us from the future?
> 
> http://turbulence.org.uk/turbulence-4/
> 
> *Today, the very act of thinking about the future has become a problem. What
> both capitalism and 'really existing socialism' had in common was the belief
> in a future where infinite happiness would spring from the infinite
> expansion of production: sacrifices made in the present could always be
> justified in terms of a brighter future. And now? The socialist future has
> been dead since the fall of the Berlin wall. After that we seemed to live in
> a world where only the capitalist future existed (even when it was under
> attack). But now this future, too, is having its obituaries composed, and
> impending doom is the talk of the town. The 'crisis of the future' – that
> is, of our capacity to think about the future – is born out of these twin
> deaths: today it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of
> capitalism.*
> 
> With this in mind we've assembled a collection of articles that, in
> different ways, speak to us about futures. As much as we didn't want
> people's ten-point programmes when, in June 2007 we asked 'What would it
> mean to win?', our interest here has nothing to do with futurology. There
> are no grand predictions. No imminent victory, because comfort-zone wishful
> thinking is the last thing anyone needs now; but no apocalyptic doom either.
> Neither are there any forward-view mirrors where capitalism recuperates
> everything and always gets the last laugh. We must have the modesty to
> recognise that the future is unknown, not because today is the end of
> everything or the beginning of everything else, but because today is where
> we are. What we do, what is done to us, and what we do with what is done to
> us, are what decide the way the dice will go. This requires the patient and
> attentive work of identifying openings, directions, tendencies, potentials,
> possibilities – all of which are things that amount to nothing if not acted
> upon – and of finding out new ways in which to think about the future.
> 
> PDF available *here*
> 

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