What comes after end-of-world narratives: visions of just futurity and
multispecies flourishing.
There is widespread consensus that we are living at the end--of
democracy, of liberalism, of capitalism, of a healthy planet, of the
Holocene, of civilization as we know it. Drawing on radical futurisms
and visions of justice-to-come emerging from the traditions of the
oppressed--Indigenous, African-American, multispecies,
anti-capitalist--as materialized in experimental visual cultural, new
media, aesthetic practices, and social movements, in this book. T. J.
Demos poses speculative questions about what comes after end-of-world
narratives, arguing that it's as vital to defeat fatalistic nihilism as
the false solutions of green capitalism and algorithmic governance.
How might we decolonize the future, and cultivate an emancipated
chronopolitics in relation to an undetermined not-yet? If we are to
avoid climate emergency's cooptation by technofixes, and the defuturing
of multitudes by xenophobic eco-fascism, Demos argues, we must cultivate
visions of just futurity and multispecies flourishing.
