Friday, January 11, 2019

Money Wisdom #438

"Our postfuturist mood, [Berardi] continues, is based on the awareness that the future is no going to be bright. Yet, crucially, this postfuturist sensibility is not one that has simply emerged in the light of our response to problematic external events of moments of crisis. Thus, a postfuturist sensibility cannot be explained with reference to events such as economic crisis, climate change, or natural disasters that have blighted, interfered with, or interrupted the flow of the future and its relationship to the present. On the contrary, rather then concerning crises that have temporarily and violently cut agents loose from the future, the emergence of a postfuturist sensibility concerns a shift in time itself."

Lisa Adkins The Time of Money (2018) p.25