Predictions Without Futures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4496757 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sun-Ha Hong (0000-0002-8243-4974, Simon Fraser University, corresponding author), Sun‐ha Hong (Simon Fraser University) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 371-390 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History and Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2656 • E-ISSN: 1468-2303 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/hith.12269 |
| OpenAlex | W4293194793 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
Modernity held sacred the aspirational formula of the open future: a promise of human determination that doubles as an injunction to control. Today, the banner of this plannable future is borne by technology. Allegedly impersonal, neutral, and exempt from disillusionment with ideology, belief in technological change saturates the present horizon of historical futures. Yet I argue that this is exactly how today's technofutures enact a hegemony of closure and sameness. In particular, the growing emphasis on prediction as AI's skeleton key to all social problems constitutes what religious studies calls cosmograms: universalizing models that govern how facts and values relate to each other, providing a common and normative point of reference. In a predictive paradigm, social problems are made conceivable only as objects of calculative control-control that can never be fulfilled but that persists as an eternally deferred and recycled horizon. I show how this technofuture is maintained not so much by producing literally accurate predictions of future events but through ritualized demonstrations of predictive time
Aesthetics · Banner · Closure (psychology · Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Futures contract · Futures studies · Horizon · Ideology · Modernity · Normative · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Sociology · Computer Science · Law · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Philosophy · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
Imagining and Enacting Futures
Ciencia de datos para la historia
On being consulted
Algorithmic futuring
Human-Machine symbiosis in educational leadership in the era of artificial intelligence (AI)
Imaging urban doppelgängers
Enclosure and exit in new tech urbanisms
Apresentação do Dossiê – Hegemonia Cibernética, Tecnoextrativismo e Colonialidade
Placing Care Work in the Future of Work Discourse
When public policy ‘fails’ and venture capital ‘saves’ education
The silicon future
Interdisciplinary futures? A conceptual approach
Data dispossession
Datafied ageing futures
An urban 'age of timber'? Tensions and contradictions in the low-carbon imaginary of the bioeconomic city
História mais do que humana
Social Forms Beyond Value
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |