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What is Unpredicting the Future about?

Shaviro, Steven. “Unpredicting the Future.” Alienocene - Stratum , no. 1 (April 2018). (https://alienocene.com/2018/04/02/stratum-1/) https://alienocene.com/2018/04/02/stratum-1/ . Extracted Annotations "SCIENCE FICTION is about futurity. This doesn't mean that it claims, in any way, to predict the future. Rather, if anything, it unpredicts the future; it seeks out what is unpredictable, or what is counterfinal." ((zotero://open-pdf/library/items/YXPSF69T?page=2) Shaviro 2018:2 ) "The present moment passes away, but it is thereby also preserved "in itself," preserved as having passed. Indeed, there could be no sense of a living, moving present, if it were not also able to pass away, one moment giving way to the next. The other side of this is that every moment, even as it passes, leaves behind traces and scars. These leavings are its legacy to what succeeds it. Every new moment, every new present, refers to a past, assumes a past, in the very action of surpassing it, of diverging and differing from it. The past is never really dead, because it subsists underneath the present. Pastness is a supplemental dimension of time, that continually haunts the present. The past is virtual, in

Author

Steven Shaviro

Publisher

Alienocene

Published

2020

Language

EN