Introduction

The fictional account from my future self that you have just read is intended to sensitise readers to the utopian analytical character of this book, to stimulate the imagination and make explicit the way in which the future is now: shaped by the social and material practices of our present day. From here on, this book follows a more conventional line, albeit one that depends on the effect of the prologue. In this introduction, I begin to position the core concerns of this research in relation to key debates and outline the structure of the argument.