Futures Past

Futures PastEleven contributors to this volume reflect upon the unprecedented ways in which digital media have been transforming art practice, study and education. The authors researchers, teachers, custodians of art collections and picture libraries, and an artist cover a wide range of issues, arguing for a more profound understanding of digital culture. With the benefit of hindsight it is now possible to look at futures past and assess the disparities between

rendering perceptible what otherwise remains insensible

the play offers an unusually cynical assessment of the social and familial displacements

Colin Rogers uses a sample of 100 names

music videos

what accounts for Marxism’s recurrent attractiveness to certain Americans

spanning energy

the pursuit of détente with the Soviet Union and the emergence of new private sources of global power contributed to uncertainty

contemporary globialisation

Frueh’s book offers a highly original perspective on pleasure—frank

this book illuminates a previously under-researched area of British military and social history

and art teachers alike

and a discussion of what happened away from the metropolis