‘To-Day and To-Morrow’: Modernism and Futurology

TY - CHAP

T1 - ‘To-Day and To-Morrow’

T2 - Modernism and Futurology

AU - Saunders, Max

PY - 2020

Y1 - 2020

N2 - With the advent of technological modernity, mythological, apocalyptic, or millenarian prophecies are replaced by a new form of imagined future: more sustained attempts to speculate on the ways in which everyday life might be transformed, especially through science and technology. This chapter will focus on C. K. Ogden’s ‘To-Day and To-Morrow’ series to argue that it exemplifies the claim that modern time is future time, and that the series represents a major shift in the imagining of futurity, as prophecy gives way to a forecasting based on scientific knowledge and method; in other words, that technology affects not only the content but also the methodology of futurology.

AB - With the advent of technological modernity, mythological, apocalyptic, or millenarian prophecies are replaced by a new form of imagined future: more sustained attempts to speculate on the ways in which everyday life might be transformed, especially through science and technology. This chapter will focus on C. K. Ogden’s ‘To-Day and To-Morrow’ series to argue that it exemplifies the claim that modern time is future time, and that the series represents a major shift in the imagining of futurity, as prophecy gives way to a forecasting based on scientific knowledge and method; in other words, that technology affects not only the content but also the methodology of futurology.

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85089335005

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-29278-2_10

DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-29278-2_10

M3 - Chapter

SN - 9783030292775

SP - 233

EP - 251

BT - Literature and Modern Time

A2 - Ferguson, Trish

ER -