Titlebook: Critical Terms in Futures Studies; Heike Paul Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Spring

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Data,ata science, which includes classical statistical and newer methods to handle “big data,” has become popular ever since. Dozens of professional fields have started to employ data scientists to extract value and generate predictions from their data. But what is “data”? While human societies have used

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Democracy, identifies linearity as the hegemonic mode as it is understood and practiced within liberal political systems. Finally, it shows how poststructuralist theories, queer-feminist thought, and postcolonial insights reconceptualize this temporality challenging the hegemonic temporal regime of (neo)liber

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Fictionality,The legacy of romantic idealism (Kant and Hegel) is evident in modern uses of these terms, especially as they represent the independence of reason from external causes. “Fiction” and “fictionality” are key features of a modernization process now associated with the Anthropocene.

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Alternate History,so with the obvious purpose of changing our present and our future. Every alternate history looks at what are considered the flaws of the present, as much as examining the possibilities for improving it by rehearsing several scenarios.

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Book 2019tive fields, which examine future imaginaries across cultures and time. Not situated in the field of “futurology” proper, it comes at future studies ‘sideways’ and offers a multidisciplinary treatment of a critical futures’ vocabulary. The contributors have their disciplinary homes in a wide range o