The Ever Present Present: The Long Now and the Cancellation of the Future
The Regrettable Century · Chris, Kevin, Jason, & Ben
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Show Notes
This week we return to an always prescient question: What happened to the future?
What Lies Ahead?
https://jacobin.com/2023/01/slavoj-zizek-time-future-history-catastrophe-emancipation
Mark Fisher’s Specters of Scarcity
https://jacobin.com/2025/01/mark-fisher-neoliberalism-acid-communism
‘Culture has lost the ability to grasp the present’
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/mark-fisher-ghosts-retromania/
How the pandemic messed with our perception of time
https://www.vox.com/science/23823507/pandemic-memory-time-perception-lockdown