Future tense: Scandalous thinking during the conjunctural crisis. (December 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hearn, Alison; Banet-Weiser, Sarah
• Other Names: Moran Marie guest-editor.; Littler Jo guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: European journal of cultural studies. Volume 23:Number 6(2020)
• Page Start: 1054
• Page End: 1059
• Publication Date: 2020-12
• Subjects: cultural studies -- scholarship -- the future -- crisis -- branding; Culture -- Periodicals; Culture -- Popular -- Periodicals; Culture -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; Cross-cultural studies -- Periodicals; 306.05
• DOI: 10.1177/1367549420946412
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1367-5494

Abstract

This brief essay considers the impact of the current conjunctural crisis on ideas about, and access to the 'future'. It explores ways in which cultural critics and scholars might learn to think 'scandalously' in order to imagine and build a more equitable and humane world.