ABSTRACT

There are now new experiences of space and time; new tensions between globalism and regionalism, socialism and consumerism, reality and spectacle; new instabilities of value, meaning and identity - a dialectic between past and future. How are we to understand these?
Mapping the Futures is the first of a series which brings together cultural theorists from different disciplines to assess the implications of economic, political and social change for intellectual inquiry and cultural practice.

part I|85 pages

The cultural politics of space

chapter 1|28 pages

From space to place and back again

Reflections on the condition of postmodernity

chapter 2|17 pages

Future fear

chapter 3|13 pages

Space as an arena of represented practices

An interlocutor's response to David Harvey's 'From space to place and back again'

part II|82 pages

Changing places

chapter 6|34 pages

Homeless/global

Scaling places

chapter 7|17 pages

Dystopia on the Thames 1

chapter 9|17 pages

Beyond the modern home

Shifting the parameters of residence

part III|38 pages

Moving times

chapter 10|19 pages

Global and local cultures 1

chapter 11|12 pages

Cities without maps

chapter 12|6 pages

A European home?

part IV|49 pages

Shifting values

chapter 14|8 pages

Between earth and air

Value, culture and futurity

chapter 16|6 pages

News from somewhere

part V|24 pages

Thinking futures

chapter 18|3 pages

Communism

Should the mighty ideas be falling with the statues?

chapter 19|10 pages

Training some thoughts on the future