Lapham’s on the Future(s)
by Slava on Oct.10, 2011, under 6 future congeries
The latest issue of the Lapham’s Quarterly is nothing but future (still ‘the’ one, and without ‘s’, but a good start anyway). I wrote about this publications about a year ago or so, when they published the issue on games, and playing. But back then the content was not available online; this time the majority of the articles and other materials can be found on their website.
As always with the Lapham’s Quarterly, it’s a great collection of very diverse accounts – of writers and artists, of philosophers and scientists – who thought about this complex matter of ‘the future’. Often very paradoxical and unexpected, these stories and pictures are both inspiring and informative; but ‘informative’ not in a sense of updating about the latest ‘trends’ and ‘foresights’, but rather on the different ways of thinking about the future(s). Good food for thought.
Jonas Bendiksen – Rocket debris near the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan (2000)
