Spectral futures : fabulations of worlds to come / edited by Bernd Herzogenrath.
| Other author | Herzogenrath, Bernd, 1964- editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. |
| Copyright Date | ©2026 |
| Description | vi, 310 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Future's theory |
| Contents | Spectral Futures: an Introduction / Bernd Herzogenrath -- Wavelength: 0.001 nm color: gamma rays: The Spectral Affectivity of Glaciers / Julita Skotarska -- Wavelength: 100-400 nm color: Ultraviolet: Wild Light: Radiant Skin and the Domestication of Ultraviolet Futures / Lisa Yin Han --Wavelength: 380-750 nm color: Rainbow: Somewhere Over the Rainbow / Claire Colebrook -- Wavelength: 400 nm-700 nm+ color: White White Rot / Amanda Boetzkes -- Wavelength: 420-700 nm color: sodium-silver Blank Screens and Spectral Skies: Hong Kong as a Postcolonial Locus of Transnational Asian Futures / Dawn Chan -- Wavelength: 450 nm low latency (you know, for high speed trading) color: CME Blue (i.e. the blue that the Chicago Mercantile Exchange uses): A Brief and Speculative History of Making the Weather an Option / Orit Halpern -- Wavelength: 450-490 nm color: cobalt blue: Afterimage / Mitchell Akiyama -- Wavelength: 490 nm color: supra-blue minor: Meshes of Light and Death, by Oceanic Bacteria / Jeremie Brugidou -- Wavelength: 492 nm color: Infragreen: An Infragreen and Bipolar Tale of the Future / Thierry Bardini -- Wavelength: 530 nm color: Pure Gold: Hyper-Vanguard: The Future of a Thousand Sects / Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh -- Wavelength: 555 nm color: chartreuse green: Pale Green Dots / Abelardo Gil-Fournier -- Wavelength: 580 mn color: Yellow: Specters of Solar Futurity: Yellow-Black-Yellow / Asia Bazdyrieva, Adrian Ivakhiv, and Svitlana Matviyenko -- Wavelength: 590 nm color: Amber: Memory of a Stone / Fabien Clouette -- Wavelength: 605.34 nm color: vermillion: Vermillion Times: Memoranda from the Future, Christine Reeh Peters, Isabel Machado -- Wavelength: 680 nm color: Flesh red: Excoriating Red: A Note on Russian Futurity / Andrey Logutov -- Wavelength: none, multiple color: gray: Dead or Alive? Gray Futures / Franziska Strack -- Wavelength: 0 nm - 400 nm - [less than or equal to] 700 nm color: Blackless: Blackless: The Present-absence of Blackness in an African Tomorrow / Babson Ajibade -- Wavelength: 595 nm color: Black Hole Black: Black Hole Black (Disco Ball Lightning) / Alison Sperling -- Wavelength: 6000 [Angstrom] nm color: transparent: The Color of Breath, the Color of Air / Bernd Herzogenrath -- Wavelength: n/a color: Luminous Darkness: Exploring the metaphysics of Afrofuturism through Howard Thurman's Luminous Darkness / Reynaldo Anderson, Christina Hudson -- Wavelength: n/a color: Iridescence: The future Iridesces / Bronislaw Szerszynski -- Wavelength (Khaki) - 575.4 nm [lowercase lambda] wavelength (Dark Gray) - nil: Soliloquies of a Lone Diner and the Specters of Thomas Sankara / Kuti Ezebiro |
| Abstract | What colour is the future - or rather, what colors are the futures? Broad and enlightening in its coverage, this collection explores the notion that there is not just one visualization of the future, but many, stretching across and beyond shades of utopian brightness and dystopian darks. Visiting futures that belong to the realm of ghosts, it calls for a hauntology that deals not only with spectres of the past but also the of future, offering a fascinating engagement with both colonial history and hyper-accelerated societies. Guided by a diversity of colours, contributors speculate on non-anthropogenic futurities, theorising on the richness of an essentially complex and disordered material universe. The volume's critical approaches range from speculative realism, oceanic biology, and philosophy and politics, to posthumanism and queer theory. What all these offerings have in common is a strong focus on materiality, the in human, and the innovative possibilities that are brought into light by this 'fabulated spectrum'. They combine the potentialities of philosophy, art, and science, in that they all forge a relation to chaos, or, an undeterminable 'new.' Powerful and thought-provoking, this book illuminates different possibilities of gazing upon futures in nuanced and novel ways. -- Publisher website. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN | 9781350421127 |
| ISBN | 135042112X hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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