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Podcast: FARSIGHT
Episode: Futurology and the Cold War: Emancipation or Control w/ Jenny Andersson
Description: Studying the future was never a value-neutral project. The origins of modern futures research (known in the 1950s and 60s as ‘futurology’), lies in the ideological struggle between capitalism and communism during the Cold War. On both sides of the Iron Curtain, the future was something to be managed and controlled in the service of a dominant ideology. That briefly changed in the 1970s with the emergence of more global, emancipatory futures projects like the Club of Rome and the Peace Movement. Why didn’t it last? And what ideological baggage does futurism carry with it from itsformation during the Co...