Futures are increasingly represented in the forms of the past.

Evidence

It is Jameson’s claim that representations of the future, in fact, are increasingly likely to come to us garbed in the forms of the past: Blade Runner, with its well-known debt to film noir, is exemplary here (and nothing makes Jameson’s point more clearly than Blade Runner’s domination over science fiction film in the last twenty-five years). — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 515

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to ch25 on fantasy and the loss of inventing new futures. — connects to: Lost futures haunt a city more keenly than its past does — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 212; Return to archaic form can itself be a rendering of future shock — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 300; Present experience re-encounters a past that was once a projected future. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 1068 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• The future now plays the same rhetorical role the pastoral past once played #corroborates (0.92) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 755
• Present experience re-encounters a past that was once a projected future. #corroborates (0.85) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 1068
• Higher culture’s remembered images point to a future that dissolves the present order. #corroborates (0.80) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 290
• Foundational myths rewrite predicted futures as descriptions of an already-past beginning. #expands (0.72) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 828
• Present cultural forms carry disengageable seeds of the future #complicates (0.70) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 190