«Everywhere the crisis speeds toward places and people that have long kept the disasters they produced far away and for others. Across a series of groundbreaking essays, Memories of the Future sets into play a debate among scholars and artists about the politics of the future present. This collection refuses to offer an answer. It instead provides what we need now, the current grammatical and semantic nature of art and politics today – when the coming future crisis was and for whom; ends whose beginnings are coming; and events that never quite happen.» – Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Franz Boas Professor, Columbia University «If those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it, what about those who fail to imagine the future? This volume bursts with insights into the history and contemporary practice of prediction, illuminating futurology as a politically charged dimension of intellectual history.» – Glenn Adamson, Senior Scholar, Yale Center for British Art