Postdigital Speculation

Postdigital Imaginations as Emancipatory Practices

“…(Graeber 2009). Inspired by Mills and the May 1968 events, social scientists worked extensively around the development of the concept of critical imagination (e.g., Appadurai 2000;Bloch 1959Bloch /1986Castoriadis 1987;Eskola 1988;Freire 2005a;Fromm 1968;Graeber 2007;Jandrić and McLaren 2020;Rorty 1999;Stetsenko 2020) and imaginative methodologies (e.g., Back and Puwar 2012; Gergen and Gergen 2012; Jacobsen et al 2016;Koro-Ljungberg 2016;Elliott and Culhane 2017;Kara 2015;Lackey 1994;Ross 2022Ross , 2023Suoranta et al 2022;Suoranta and Teräs 2023;Hrastinski and Jandrić 2023).…”

“…Lately, postdigital scholars have given a lot of attention to postdigital futures (Ross 2023;Lindberg and Johansson 2023). Dedicated collections include the recent Special Issue on 'Designing Postdigital Futures' (Macgilchrist et al 2024) and the forthcoming book Framing Futures in Postdigital Education: Critical Concepts for Data-driven Practices (Buch et al 2024).…”

“…In our messy and unpredictable postdigital times, when it has become clear that the world's complex challenges, such as environmental destruction, require radically new worldviews and approaches (see Jandrić and Ford 2022), there has been a renewed interest in the idea and concept of imagination in different disciplines such as history (Warnock 2020), philosophy (Kind 2016), aesthetics (Moser and Sukla 2020), cognitive psychology (Abraham 2016), education (Halpin 2003), social sciences (Graeber 2007), and also cross-disciplinarily (Abraham 2020;Zittoun and Glaveanu 2017). This interest has been intensified by the recent COVID-19 pandemic (see Jandrić et al 2021), leading to a rapidly growing body of work on imagination-based research approaches such as postdigital speculation (Ross 2023) and future studies (Lindberg and Johansson 2023).…”