Techniques of Futuring: How Imagined Futures Become Socially Performative

Jeroen Oomen; Jesse Hoffman; Maarten Hajer

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-76841-5_13

Techniques of Futuring: How Imagined Futures Become Socially Performative

Jeroen Oomen
, Jesse Hoffman
, Maarten Hajer^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Today’s politics is dominated by bleak images of the future. While there is a widespread recognition that images of the future play a political role in the present, there is little knowledge on how do such imagined futures become socially performative. Drawing on constructivist sociological theory, this paper proposes a dramaturgical analysis using the concepts of ‘techniques of futuring’ and ‘dramaturgical regime’. The paper has three aims: to (1) identify the leading social-theoretical work on the future; (2) conceptualize the relationship of the imagination of the future with social practices and the performance of reality; (3) provide a theoretical framework explaining how images of the future become performative.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Knowledge and Space
Editors	Johannes Glückler, Matthias Garschagen, Robert Panitz
Publisher	Springer
Pages	241-262
Number of pages	22
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-76841-5
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-76840-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-76841-5_13
Publication status	Published - 7 May 2025

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Name	Knowledge and Space
Volume	20
ISSN (Print)	1877-9220
ISSN (Electronic)	2543-0580

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Keywords

Dramaturgical regime
Future
Futuring
Imaginaries
Techniques of futuring

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