Tropical Futurism Envisions the Climate of Our Fate

Is the future over? It has been for a while. In his book, Ghosts of My Life, the late critic Mark Fisher wrote about the slow cancellation of the future because of our inability to articulate the present. The future was already lost, not only to the speed of the internet, but to a general condition in which life continues, but time has somehow stopped. Fisher's generation understood the future as the destination at the end of an arrow, ushered in by the pursuit of knowledge, liberty, and technological innovation. The myth of the future had been built on the idea that we once rubbed sticks together to make fire and lived in chaos, and that we will travel in space and eliminate mass suffering. The myth of the eruption of past, present, and future into one plane has all but disappeared, as we have witnessed the eruption of past, present, and future into one plane.