A Creative Philosophy of Anticipation: Futures in the Gaps of the Present

This edited collection highlights the valuable ontological and creative insights gathered from anticipation studies, which orients itself to the future in order to recreate the present.

The gathered essays engage with many writers from speculative metaphysics to poetic philosophy, ancient writing systems to the fringes of pataphysics. The book situates itself as a creative intervention in and with various thinkers, designers, artists, scientists and poets to offer insight into ways of anticipating. It brings together philosophical practices for which creativity is both a fundamental area of consideration and a mode of working, a characterization of recent Continental Philosophy which takes a departure from traditional futures studies thinking.

This book will be of interest to scholars and research in futures studies, anticipation, philosophy, creative practice and theories about creative practice, as well as the intersections between philosophy, creativity and business.

Jamie Brassett is Reader in Philosophy, Design and Innovation at University of the Arts London, UK. He has worked at Central Saint Martins since 1995, across all disciplines. Jamie started MA Innovation Management in 2008 and ran it for 11 years. He DJs better now than in the 1990s.

John O’Reilly is Senior Lecturer in Practice as Research, Teaching and Learning Exchange, University of the Arts London, UK. Philosopher, editor and journalist, John has specialisms in illustration, popular culture and recent Continental Philosophy.