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Images of the future. Risk and responsibilization in neoliberal management of the future

Abstract

A historical and global phenomenon, the contemporary sense of the future distances itself, in many ways, from that experienced by other past futures. Acting as a type of bio-political machine of the possible, it has the most minute effects on subject’s daily life. A hypervisibility of the future where the pretentiously precise images participate in the installation of anticipation as a general program in the culture of risk. In this neoliberal governmentality, however, not all predicted risks can (or should) be visible: a hermeneutic gradient about these risks and non-risks is installed in everyday life. Reality that weakens collectivities and reduces the spectrum of the possible to economic diagrams of late capitalism

Images of the future; Anticipation; Risk; Responsibilization; Neoliberalism

Departamento de Sociologia da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 315, 05508-010, São Paulo - SP, Brasil - São Paulo - SP - Brazil
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