The Ever Present Present: The Long Now and Our Inability to Conceive of a Future

This week we return to an always prescient question: What happened to the future?

What Lies Ahead?

https://jacobin.com/2023/01/slavoj-zizek-time-future-history-catastrophe-emancipation

Mark Fisher’s Specters of Scarcity

https://jacobin.com/2025/01/mark-fisher-neoliberalism-acid-communism

‘Culture has lost the ability to grasp the present’

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/mark-fisher-ghosts-retromania/

How the pandemic messed with our perception of time

https://www.vox.com/science/23823507/pandemic-memory-time-perception-lockdown

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