A Creative Philosophy of Anticipation: Futures in the Gaps of the Present (Routledge Research in Anticipation and Futures)

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. "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 Future Studies thinking. This book will be of interest 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"-- Provided by publisher Cover Endorsement Page Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of figures List of tables Contributors Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Introduction to a creative philosophy of anticipation Chapter 2 Anticipation, creativity and picture perception Chapter 3 Flowing or frozen anticipation?: Runes and the creativity of time Chapter 4 Ernst Bloch’s ontology of not-yet being: Intuiting the possibility of anticipation’s fulfilment Chapter 5 Are scenarios creative?: Questioning movement and innovation in anticipation practices Chapter 6 Becoming other-wise as the practice of anticipation Chapter 7 For a creative ontology of the future: An ode to love Chapter 8 Inventive devices and public issues: The Air Pollution Toile Chapter 9 The anticipatory power of the objectile Chapter 10 2078/1978. Anticipation and the contemporary Index