Il senso dei futuri

in this text we deal with how the sense of the future is analyzed within the issue 45/46 of the journal Lexia, which can be read in the following pages. The idea is that, in the articles published there, we cannot speak of a sense of the future in the singular, but of a sense of futures. Indeed, the future is an elusive and multi-faceted concept, which each of the authors we consider declines differently, depending on the corpus of texts they analyze. It may represent a way of re-presenting values and visions of the past that return to significance, or to detach from them. It can be seen as the objective consequence of a series of facts we experience, but also as something discontinuous from these same facts. Something that depends on our own plans and desires, or those of others, with which we are supposed to come to terms. The future can also be imagined simply as something very different from today, which we like to think about in order to compare it with the reality in which we live and ask ourselves what makes more sense, whether the present or our imagination of another world to come. In any case, the various futures that we think about today and that we happen to analyze in the various texts that circulate in our society are confronted with the problematic reality in which we live, made up of individualism, capitalist, extractivist and predatory economic and social models, where the climate is changing, inequalities raise and many other issues require to be addressed.