Future in a Contested Time Regime

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Future in a Contested Time Regime is written by Florentine Schoog and published by Springer Nature. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3658488158 (ISBN 10) and 9783658488154 (ISBN 13).

The future is up for debate – not only, but particularly in light of climate change. The catastrophic outlook stands in stark contrast to the optimism of progress rooted in Western modernity. Thus, it is not just the prospect but the concept of future itself that must be rethought. This book explores modern society’s relationship to the future in view of climate change: Through a narratological discourse analysis, it provides an overview of how climate change has been narrated in 21st-century climate documentary films, with particular attention to their final sequences and the prospects they articulate. The study traces how these cinematic anticipations can be read as expressions of a contested time regime and derives novel figurations of future that mirror or confront the ideological conditions of the present.