Kontrfaktyczne symulacje przyszłości

Abstract

Slavoj Žižek in one of his books (In Defense of Lost Causes) suggests thinking over the conception of „the time of project” by Jean‑Pierre Dupuy as a future project of the left wing. For the French, „the time of Project” is „the time of a closed measurement between the past and the future, the future is a resultative product of our actions from the past, the way we act is defined by our anticipation of the future and reaction to this anticipation”. Thus, it goes about introducing a new (non‑linear) notion of time, which, as the only one, can help us face a global (whether it be an ecological or cosmic) disaster. Such a perspective must raise doubts, especially in the context of remarks made by Carl Marx himself on the one hand, developed in All That Is Solid Melts Into Air by Marshall Berman, and on the other, in the light of the newest models delivered by contemporary science which assume that knowledge or the assumption itself in relation to the future changes of our way of thinking about it, and, even more, the future as such.