{"product_id":"the-future-of-the-world-futurology-futurists-and-the-struggle-for-the-post-cold-war-imagination-9780198814337","title":"The Future of the World: Futurology, Futurists, and the Struggle for the Post Cold War Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jenny Andersson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: World - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Future of the World\u003c\/em\u003e is devoted to the intriguing field of study which emerged after World War Two, futurism or futurology. Jenny Andersson explains how futurist scholars and researchers imagined the Cold War and post Cold War world and the tools and methods they would use to influence and change that world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFuturists were a motley crew of Cold War warriors, nuclear scientists, journalists, and peace activists. Some argued it should be a closed sphere of science defined by delimited probabilities. They were challenged by alternative notions of the future as a potentially open realm. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFuturism also drew on an eclectic range of repertoires, some of which were deduced from positivist social science, mathematics, and nuclear physics, and some of which sprung from alternative forms of knowledge in science fiction, journalism, or religion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese different forms of prediction laid very different claims to how accurately futures could be known, and what kind of control could be exerted over what was yet to come. \u003cem\u003eThe Future of the World\u003c\/em\u003e carefully examines these different engagements with the future, and inscribes them in the intellectual history of the post war period. Using unexplored archival collections, \u003cem\u003eThe Future of the World\u003c\/em\u003e reconstructs the Cold War networks of futurologists and futurists.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47889521639575,"sku":"9780198814337","price":15352.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780198814337.webp?v=1781176769","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-future-of-the-world-futurology-futurists-and-the-struggle-for-the-post-cold-war-imagination-9780198814337","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}