Imagined Futures: Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics

By Jens Beckert. 2016

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Talking AI into Being: The Narratives and Imaginaries of National AI Strategies and Their Performative Politics (2021, methodology): “…over nature or competitors, as well as the conquest over the impossible: “Reference to history and culture can also take the form of analogies to technological success in other fields, which is seen as proof that developments believed to be impossible can actually be realized” (Beckert 2016, 181).”
• Multiple competitions in higher education: a conceptual approach (2019, unknown): “By participating in competitions, ‘fictional expectations’ (Beckert, 2016) are created that become powerful in the present where they are perceived as risks and uncertainties.”
• Uncertainty and Narratives of the Future: A Theoretical Framework for Contemporary Fertility (2020, unknown): “These perceptions are known as expectations” (Beckert 2016: 35).”