Critical Terms In Futures Studies

Author : Heike Paul
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 3030289885

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Critical Terms in Futures Studies by Heike Paul Pdf

This volume provides the essential vocabulary currently employed in discourses on the future in 50 contributions by renowned scholars in their respective fields, which examine future imaginaries across cultures and time. Not situated in the field of "futurology" proper, it comes at future studies 'sideways' and offers a multidisciplinary treatment of a critical futures' vocabulary. The contributors have their disciplinary homes in a wide range of subjects - history, cultural studies, literary studies, sociology, media studies, American studies, Japanese studies, Chinese studies, and philosophy - and critically illuminate numerous discourses about the future (or futures), past and present. In compiling such a critical vocabulary, this book seeks to foster conversations about futures in study programs and research forums and offers a toolbox for discussing them with an adequate degree of complexity.

Author : Heike Paul
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030289874

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Critical Terms in Futures Studies by Heike Paul Pdf

This volume provides the essential vocabulary currently employed in discourses on the future in 50 contributions by renowned scholars in their respective fields, which examine future imaginaries across cultures and time. Not situated in the field of “futurology” proper, it comes at future studies ‘sideways’ and offers a multidisciplinary treatment of a critical futures’ vocabulary. The contributors have their disciplinary homes in a wide range of subjects – history, cultural studies, literary studies, sociology, media studies, American studies, Japanese studies, Chinese studies, and philosophy – and critically illuminate numerous discourses about the future (or futures), past and present. In compiling such a critical vocabulary, this book seeks to foster conversations about futures in study programs and research forums and offers a toolbox for discussing them with an adequate degree of complexity.

Author : Wendell Bell
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412823791

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Foundations of Futures Studies, Volume 1 by Wendell Bell Pdf

Futures studies is a new field of inquiry involving systematic and explicit thinking about alternative futures. It aims to demystify the future, make possibilities for the future more known to us, and increase human control over the future. Author Wendell Bell brings together futurist intellectual tools, describing and explaining not only the methods, but also the nature, concepts, theories, and exemplars of the field. Now available in paperback with a new preface from the author, Foundations of Future Studies is the fundamental work on the subject. Bell illustrates how this sphere of intellectual activity offers hope for the future of humanity and concrete ways of realizing that hope in the real world of everyday life. His book will appeal to all interested in futures studies, sociology, economics, political science, and history.

Author : W. J. T. Mitchell,Mark B. N. Hansen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226532660

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Critical Terms for Media Studies by W. J. T. Mitchell,Mark B. N. Hansen Pdf

Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and disciplines and produces a vocabulary that is in equal parts rigorous and intuitive. Critical Terms for Media Studies defines, and at times, redefines, what this new and hybrid area aims to do, illuminating the key concepts behind its liveliest debates and most dynamic topics. Part of a larger conversation that engages culture, technology, and politics, this exciting collection of essays explores our most critical language for dealing with the qualities and modes of contemporary media. Edited by two outstanding scholars in the field, W. J. T. Mitchell and Mark B. N. Hansen, the volume features works by a team of distinguished contributors. These essays, commissioned expressly for this volume, are organized into three interrelated groups: “Aesthetics” engages with terms that describe sensory experiences and judgments, “Technology” offers entry into a broad array of technological concepts, and “Society” opens up language describing the systems that allow a medium to function. A compelling reference work for the twenty-first century and the media that form our experience within it, Critical Terms for Media Studies will engage and deepen any reader’s knowledge of one of our most important new fields.

Author : Jose Valciukas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351519427

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Foundations of Futures Studies by Jose Valciukas Pdf

Futures studies is a new field of inquiry involving systematic and explicit thinking about alternative futures. It aims to demystify the future, make possibilities for the future more known to us, and increase human control over the future. This book summarizes and expands contributions of futurists to the envisioning power and well-being of humanity. Bell brings together futurist intellectual tools, describing and explaining not only the methods, but also the nature, concepts, theories, and exemplars of the field.Foundations of Futures Studies fulfills Bell's five main purposes for writing this two-volume effort: (1) to show that futures studies, like other fields from anthropology to zoology, exists as an identifiable sphere of intellectual activity; (2) to create a teaching instrument that can be used as a basic text for core courses in futures studies; (3) to futurize the thinking of specialists in other disciplines; (4) to contribute to the further development and improvement of futures studies; and (5) to provide tools to empower both ordinary people and leaders to act in ways that create better futures for themselves and their societies. Bell maintains that despite its sometimes doomsday rhetorical style and widespread use by special interests, futures studies offers hope for the future of humanity and concrete ways of realizing that hope in the real world of our everyday lives. It will appeal to all interested in futures studies, as well as sociologists, economists, political scientists, and historians.

Author : Eleonora Masini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Forecasting
ISBN : UOM:39015029571422

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Why Futures Studies? by Eleonora Masini Pdf

Author : Wendell Bell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351519397

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Foundations of Futures Studies by Wendell Bell Pdf

Futures studies is a new field of inquiry involving systematic and explicit thinking about alternative futures. Wendell Bell's two-volume work Foundations of Futures Studies is widely acknowledged as the fundamental work on the subject. In Volume 2, Bell goes beyond possible and probable futures to the study of preferable futures. He shows that concern with ethics, morality, and human values follows directly from the futurist purposes of discovering or inventing, examining, and proposing desirable futures. He examines moral judgments as an inescapable aspect of all decision-making and conscious action, even in the everyday lives of ordinary people.Now available in paperback with a new preface from the author, Volume 2 of Foundations of Futures Studies moves beyond cultural relativism to critical evaluation. Bell compares depictions of the good society by utopian writers, describes objective methods of moral judgment, assesses religion and law as sources of what is morally right, documents the existence of universal human values, and shows that if human beings are to thrive in the global society of the future, some human values must be changed.

Author : Richard A. Slaughter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134793914

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New Thinking for a New Millennium by Richard A. Slaughter Pdf

The study of futures is an area of increasing interest and one that is comprehensively examined in this new collection, with contributions from key names in the field.

Author : Ian Roulstone,John Norbury
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781400846221

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Invisible in the Storm by Ian Roulstone,John Norbury Pdf

An accessible book that examines the mathematics of weather prediction Invisible in the Storm is the first book to recount the history, personalities, and ideas behind one of the greatest scientific successes of modern times—the use of mathematics in weather prediction. Although humans have tried to forecast weather for millennia, mathematical principles were used in meteorology only after the turn of the twentieth century. From the first proposal for using mathematics to predict weather, to the supercomputers that now process meteorological information gathered from satellites and weather stations, Ian Roulstone and John Norbury narrate the groundbreaking evolution of modern forecasting. The authors begin with Vilhelm Bjerknes, a Norwegian physicist and meteorologist who in 1904 came up with a method now known as numerical weather prediction. Although his proposed calculations could not be implemented without computers, his early attempts, along with those of Lewis Fry Richardson, marked a turning point in atmospheric science. Roulstone and Norbury describe the discovery of chaos theory's butterfly effect, in which tiny variations in initial conditions produce large variations in the long-term behavior of a system—dashing the hopes of perfect predictability for weather patterns. They explore how weather forecasters today formulate their ideas through state-of-the-art mathematics, taking into account limitations to predictability. Millions of variables—known, unknown, and approximate—as well as billions of calculations, are involved in every forecast, producing informative and fascinating modern computer simulations of the Earth system. Accessible and timely, Invisible in the Storm explains the crucial role of mathematics in understanding the ever-changing weather. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

Author : Wendell Bell
Publisher : Transaction Pub
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0765805669

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Foundations of Futures Studies: Values, objectivity, and the good society by Wendell Bell Pdf

Futures studies is a new field of inquiry involving systematic and explicit thinking about alternative futures. Wendell Bell's two-volume work Foundations of Futures Studies is widely acknowledged as the fundamental work on the subject. In Volume 2, Bell goes beyond possible and probable futures to the study of preferable futures. He shows that concern with ethics, morality, and human values follows directly from the futurist purposes of discovering or inventing, examining, and proposing desirable futures. He examines moral judgments as an inescapable aspect of all decision-making and conscious action, even in the everyday lives of ordinary people. Now available in paperback with a new preface from the author, Volume 2 of Foundations of Futures Studies moves beyond cultural relativism to critical evaluation. Bell compares depictions of the good society by utopian writers, describes objective methods of moral judgment, assesses religion and law as sources of what is morally right, documents the existence of universal human values, and shows that if human beings are to thrive in the global society of the future, some human values must be changed.

Author : Jib Fowles
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1978-06-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015003461822

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Handbook of Futures Research by Jib Fowles Pdf

Author : Wendell Bell
Publisher : Transaction Pub
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0765805391

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Foundations of Futures Studies: History, purposes, and knowledge by Wendell Bell Pdf

Futures studies is a new field of inquiry involving systematic and explicit thinking about alternative futures. It aims to demystify the future, make possibilities for the future more known to us, and increase human control over the future. Author Wendell Bell brings together futurist intellectual tools, describing and explaining not only the methods, but also the nature, concepts, theories, and exemplars of the field. Now available in paperback with a new preface from the author, Foundations of Future Studies is the fundamental work on the subject. Bell illustrates how this sphere of intellectual activity offers hope for the future of humanity and concrete ways of realizing that hope in the real world of everyday life. His book will appeal to all interested in futures studies, sociology, economics, political science, and history.

Author : Brita Schwarz,Uno Svedin,Björn Wittrock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Forecasting
ISBN : 042904996X

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Methods in Futures Studies by Brita Schwarz,Uno Svedin,Björn Wittrock Pdf

This book presents three examples of futures research that illustrate the problems of applying knowledge during the course of a futures research project, the ways in which different methodologies interact, and various means of combining and adapting methodological tools and techniques.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0646246526

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The Knowledge Base of Futures Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wendell Bell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1560002816

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Foundations of Futures Studies: Values, objectivity, and the good society by Wendell Bell Pdf

Futures studies is a new field of inquiry involving systematic and explicit thinking about alternative futures. Wendell Bell's two-volume work Foundations of Futures Studiesis widely acknowledged as the fundamental work on the subject. In Volume 2, Bell goes beyond possible and probable futures to the study of preferable futures. He shows that concern with ethics, morality, and human values follows directly from the futurist purposes of discovering or inventing, examining, and proposing desirable futures. He examines moral judgments as an inescapable aspect of all decision-making and conscious action, even in the everyday lives of ordinary people. Now available in paperback with a new preface from the author, Volume 2 of Foundations of Futures Studiesmoves beyond cultural relativism to critical evaluation. Bell compares depictions of the good society by utopian writers, describes objective methods of moral judgment, assesses religion and law as sources of what is morally right, documents the existence of universal human values, and shows that if human beings are to thrive in the global society of the future, some human values must be changed. ent, assesses religion and law as sources of what is morally right, documents the existence of universal human values, and shows that if human beings are to thrive in the global society of the future, some human values must be changed.