Radical Futurisms: Ecologies of Collapse / Chronopolitics / Justice-to-Come

How might we rescue the future from the grips of planetary negativity, capitalist longtermism, and generalized catastrophism? It will take nothing less than cultivating an emancipated chronopolitics emerging from the traditions of the oppressed in relation to an undetermined not-yet. Referencing the speculative, SF cinepoetics of TJ Cuthand, The Otolith Group, and Black Quantum Futurism—among the subjects of T. J. Demos's new book »Radical Futurisms: Ecologies of Collapse / Chronopolitics / Justice-to-Come« (Sternberg Press) the—presentation in the frame of the workshop Critical Times. Part 1: Multiple Matter addresses recent creative modelings of radical Indigenous and Afrofuturist worlds-to-come and their radical temporal reconfigurations, founded upon social justice and environmental flourishing.

T. J. Demos is Professor of Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies. He writes widely about contemporary art, global politics, and ecology, and is the author, most recently, of »Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today« and »Radical Futurisms: Ecologies of Collapse, Chronopolitics, and Justice-to-Come«.