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Following our last meeting where we discussed Keri Facer’s Future in education paper, we decided to read something by Arjun Appadurai referenced in the paper.

Reading, Chapter 2 of The future as cultural fact : essays on the global condition

AppaduraiFuture as cultural fact Introduction.pdf

Appadurai chapter V2.pdf

You might also be interested in this 5 min video of him talking about the future as an anthropologist in a V &A exhibition video based on his ideas. Designing futures: an ethics of the possible by Arjun Appadurai  https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/designing-futures-an-ethics-of-the-possible-by-arjun-appadurai

Attachments
AppaduraiFuture_as_cultural_fact__Introduction.pdfIntro to chapter (1408K)
Appadurai_chapter_V2.pdfChapter for discussion (2178K)