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When Futures Meet the Present
Author(s) -
WagnerPacifici Robin
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
sociological forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1573-7861
pISSN - 0884-8971
DOI - 10.1111/j.1573-7861.2009.01128.x
Subject(s) - futures contract , semiosis , action (physics) , politics , sociology , transformation (genetics) , epistemology , work (physics) , projection (relational algebra) , political action , social science , political science , computer science , economics , law , semiotics , engineering , philosophy , mechanical engineering , biochemistry , physics , chemistry , algorithm , quantum mechanics , financial economics , gene
In this essay, I respond to Mische’s work on projection and the research of future action. Further, I suggest a tri‐partite framework of mechanisms—one I have termed “political semiosis”—that allows historical actors to materially and figuratively reorient and realign the past, present, and future in projects of transformation.