Passages to the Outside: A Prelude to a Geophilosophy of the Future

Savransky, Martin. 2024. Passages to the Outside: A Prelude to a Geophilosophy of the Future. Dialogues in Human Geography, 14(2), pp. 259-263. ISSN 2043-8206 [Article]

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What might it take to reimagine the futures of geographical thought on an earth whose geological disjunctures and catastrophic dynamics have radically upended the progressive temporality that once made of “the future” a modern article of faith and a matter of concern? What, in other words, is the future to those practices animated by the metamorphic forces of the earth? Seeking to inhabit the problem-space these questions generate, this commentary suggests that at stake is nothing less than the challenge of learning to think futurity immanently, as a problem of space. The challenge is to reimagine the future not as the promise of a yet-to-come but as a passage to the outside: to those immanent zones of indeterminacy, anarchy, and contingency composed in the interstices and outlaw edges of every territory, where impossible forms of sociality and speculative methodologies of life are improvised in the act of striding the forces and movements of an unstable and tumultuous earth, giving themselves over to the inchoate and the unformed, to a groundlessness that surrounds and subtends every ground, to a runaway metamorphosis which eludes finality and escapes totality. That, indeed, might be the task of a geophilosophy of the future.

Item Type:

Article

Identification Number (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206231151426

Keywords:

climate change, Earth, futures, geophilosophy, progress, speculative thought, the outside

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Sociology

Dates:

DateEvent
1 January 2023Accepted
12 January 2023Published Online
July 2024Published

Item ID:

32930

Date Deposited:

04 Jan 2023 14:51

Last Modified:

09 Aug 2024 19:37

Peer Reviewed:

Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/32930

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