Is the future simply open or can it be made more or less open? The awareness of the uncontrollable impact of present action on the future has recently raised a debate about the risks of innovation and rational planning. Relying on Luhmann’s concept of defuturization, the article confronts the two approaches of future-making and preparedness and proposes to combine them with reference to the management of innovation. This adds a purposeful dimension to the discourse about preparedness, aimed so far only at confronting damaging events: one can also be prepared to seize and exploit novel opportunities.

E.Esposito (2024). Can we use the open future? Preparedness and innovation in times of self-generated uncertainty. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL THEORY, 27(2), 209-224 [10.1177/13684310231224546].

Can we use the open future? Preparedness and innovation in times of self-generated uncertainty

E. Esposito
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2024

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Is the future simply open or can it be made more or less open? The awareness of the uncontrollable impact of present action on the future has recently raised a debate about the risks of innovation and rational planning. Relying on Luhmann’s concept of defuturization, the article confronts the two approaches of future-making and preparedness and proposes to combine them with reference to the management of innovation. This adds a purposeful dimension to the discourse about preparedness, aimed so far only at confronting damaging events: one can also be prepared to seize and exploit novel opportunities.
2024
E.Esposito (2024). Can we use the open future? Preparedness and innovation in times of self-generated uncertainty. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL THEORY, 27(2), 209-224 [10.1177/13684310231224546].
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