Reading Group: Future Tense. Languages of the Future

This session continues to explore the past/future nexus, but with reference to the spiritual domain, the interstitial spaces (Torres-Carillo, 2008) of being and becoming. By attending to the spiritual, we seek to engage with post-rationalist understandings of future and future-making and create a space for dialogue with knowledges produced in the beyond.

Materials (excerpts from):
Gregor Seidl: Pachakuti (k): Andean space-times of radical breaks against the temporal regime of coloniality. University Kassel, 2019
Colin Sterling: "Becoming Hauntologists: A New Model for Critical-Creative Heritage Practice," in: Heritage & Society, 14,1 2021 67–86. 
Nicole Anderson: "Hauntology: The Archive as Past and Future," in: J. Potts (Ed.), Use and reuse of the digital archive. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

This reading group is run by IAS Postdoctoral Fellows Peter Browning, Flora Sagers and Josh Weeks, and aims to provide participants with reading materials that consider the future in a multitude of different ways, and from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Whether excavating the past in search of the future, considering apocalyptic understandings of the absence of a future, or thinking through the affects which are future oriented, it aims to provide a number of short extracts per session to accommodate for breadth of knowledge and disciplines and allowing for a depth in our discussions.