Iterations 1

Historical
FutureS

Edited by
Zoltán Boldizsár Simon and Marek Tamm

History and Theory has teamed up with Zoltán Boldizsár Simon and Marek Tamm to design and implement this serial publishing adventure, which we hope will be the first of many in this new form. For more about Iterations, visit this page.

Historical Futures is a collective research endeavor that examines “modalities of historical futures that constitute our current historical condition.” In their project-opening piece, Simon and Tamm “define ‘historical futures’ as the plurality of transitional relations between apprehensions of the past and anticipated futures.”

Contributions to the Historical Futures project will appear serially over the next few years, with each issue of History and Theory featuring new contributions to this project by authors from various disciplines, fields, and methodological perspectives.

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 Contributions to “Historical Futures”:

  • Zoltán Boldizsár Simon and Marek Tamm, “Historical Futures” (vol. 60, no. 1)

  • Frank Ankersmit, "The Thorn of History: Unintended Consequences and Speculative Philosophy of History" (vol. 60, no. 2)

  • Apolline Taillandier, "'Staring into the Singularity' and Other Posthuman Tales: Transhumanist Stories of Future Change" (vol. 60, no. 2)

  • Nitzan Lebovic, "Homo complexus: The ‘Historical Future’ of Complicity" (vol. 60, no. 3)

  • The Lifetimes Research Collective, “Fossilization, or the Matter of Historical Futures” (vol. 61, no. 1)

  • Jérôme Baschet, “Reopening the Future: Emerging Worlds and Novel Historical Futures” (vol. 61, no. 2)

  • Dolly Jørgensen, “Extinction and the End of Futures” (vol. 61, no. 2)

  • Sun-ha Hong, “Predictions without Futures” (vol. 61, no. 3)

  • Rodrigo Bonaldo and  Ana Carolina Barbosa Pereira, “Potential History: Reading Artificial Intelligence from Indigenous Knowledges” (vol. 62, no. 1)

  • Alexandra Lianeri, “Dēmokratia’s Possible Disconnection: Untimely Antiquity, Temporal Outsidedness, and Historical Futures of Politics” (vol. 62, no. 2)

  • Anne Fuchs, “On Futures and Endings: Narratological Reflections on Contemporary Forms of Crises” (vol. 62, no. 3)

  • Elena Esposito, Dominik Hofmann, and Costanza Coloni, “Can a Predicted Future Still Be an Open Future? Algorithmic Forecasts and Actionability in Precision Medicine” (vol. 63, no. 1)

  • Ethan Kleinberg, “True North” (vol. 63, no. 2)

  • Zoltán Boldizsár Simon and Marek Tamm, “The Opening of Historical Futures” (vol. 63, no. 3)