Mapping the Futures: Local Cultures, Global Change (Futures, New Perspectives for Cultural Analysis)

There are now new experiences of space and time; new tensions between globalism and regionalism, socialism and consumerism, reality and spectacle; new instabilities of value, meaning and identity - a dialectic between past and future. How are we to understand these? Mapping the Futures is the first of a series which brings together cultural theorists from different disciplines to assess the implications of economic, political and social change for intellectual inquiry and cultural practice. How May We Understand New Experiences Of Such Things As Space And Time, Or Reality And Spectacle? This Collection Aims To Bring Together Cultural Theorists From Different Disciplines Who Offer Radical Reformulations Of Cultural Theory In Response To Political, Economic And Technological Change. From Space To Place And Back Again : Reflections On The Condition Of Postmodernity / D. Harvey -- Future Fear / M. Morris -- Space As An Arena Of Represented Practices : An Interlocutor's Response To David Harvey's 'from Space To Place And Back Again' / A. Ghani -- Power-geometry And A Progressive Sense Of Place / D. Massey -- Some Notes Towards Thinking About The Spaces Of The Future / G. Rose -- Homeless/global : Scaling Places / N. Smith -- Dystopia On The Thames / J. Bird -- The Art Of Change In Docklands / P. Dunn And L. Leeson -- Beyond The Modern Home : Shifting The Parameters Of Residence / T. Putnam -- Global And Local Cultures / M. Featherstone -- Cities Without Maps / I. Chambers -- A European Home? / F. Mulhern -- Towards A Cultural Politics Of Consumption / P. Jackson -- Between Earth And Air : Value, Culture And Futurity / S. Connor -- Postmodernity, Architecture And Critical Practice / M. Bandini -- News From Somewhere / R. Hewison -- The Future Of Thinking About The Future / R. Levitas -- Communism : Should The Mighty Ideas Be Falling With The Statues? / J. Williamson -- Training Some Thoughts On The. Edited By Jon Bird ... [et Al.]. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. There are now new experiences of space and time; new tensions between globalism and regionalism, socialism and consumerism, reality and spectacle; new instabilities of value, meaning and identity. How are we to understand these? What is to be the future of thinking about the future? Mapping the Future is the first of a series which brings together cultural theorists from different disciplines to assess the implications of economic, political and social change for intellectual inquiry and cultual practice. The collsction offers radical reformulations of cultural theory in response to political, economic and technological change. In particular it focuses upon the intellectual project of speculating on the future, and the possibilities for critical utopian thought. The authors review the relationships between new pasts and unfolding futures; the effects of a more extensive geo-cultural consciousness; the implications of new configurations of power, authority and position for communities and identities. The result is an extensive consideration of the questions posed and the insights offered for the cultural realm of the emergence of innovatory material forces and theoretical ... [more] In the conclusion to The Condition of Postmodernity (Harvey 1989: 355) I proposed four areas of development to overcome the supposed crisis of historical materialism and Marxism.