Futurisms

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Names

  • Futurisms
  • Futurism (From the mid 1900s onward, not to be confused with the Italian art movement of Futurism from the early 1900s, though some cite this as a starting point for contemporary futurisms)
  • Futures
  • Futurology
  • CoFuturisms, Co-Futurisms
  • Future Studies
  • Futures Consciousness
  • Futures Thinking
  • Global Futurism, Global Futurisms
  • Alternative Futurisms
  • Applied Futurisms
  • Can overlap with the genres and industries of Foresight, Speculative Fiction, Sci-Fi, Urban Development, Art, Music, Film, Video Games, Literature, Re-Wilding, Decolonization, Indigenous Studies, Gender Studies, Race Studies, Class Studies, Activism, Worlding, Re-Worlding, SolarPunk, Health, Conciousness, Technology, Social Sciences, Post-Western and more
  • Can include many genres of cultural and conceptual futurisms, see list below, languages may vary
  • Can overlap with Magical Realism
  • Those interested in or participating in Futurisms are often called Futurists

Genres

  • Afrofuturism(s), Afro-Futurism(s), Afro Futures
  • Africanfuturism(s), African Futurism(s)
  • Indigenous Futurism(s)
  • Abundant Intelligences (AI merged with Indigenous Knowledge Systems) Futurism(s)
  • AI Futurism(s)
  • GAI Futurism(s)
  • Abundant Futurism(s), Abundant Futures
  • Afro-Indigenous Futurism(s), Futurismo(s) Afroindígena
  • Astrofuturism(s)
  • Ancient Futurism(s)
  • Ancestral Futurism(s)
  • Feminist Futurism(s)
  • Queer Futurism(s), Non-Binary Futurism(s)
  • Two Spirit Futurism(s)
  • Indigiqueer Futurism(s), Queer Indigenous Futurism(s)
  • Apocalyptic, Post-Apocalyptic
  • Post-Western
  • Post-Capitalism, Post Capitalism, Postcapitalism, Post Capitalist Futures, Postcapitalist Futures
  • Middle Futurism(s)
  • Asian Futurism(s)
  • Afro-Asian Futurism(s), AfroAsian Futurism(s)
  • Sinofuturism(s)
  • South Asian Futurism(s)
  • South African Futurism(s)
  • Post-Collapse Futurism(s)
  • Endcore, End Core
  • Crisiscore, Crisis Core
  • Reproductive Futurism(s)
  • Stemette Futures
  • Crip Futurism(s)
  • Utopian Futurism, Utopian Futures
  • Dystopian Futurism, Dystopian Futures
  • Desifuturism(s)
  • Indofuturism(s)
  • Adivasi Futurism(s)
  • Dalit Futurism(s)
  • Anti-Caste Futurism(s)
  • Mumbai Futurism(s), Bombay Futurism(s), Mumbaiker Futurism(s)
  • Mumbiker Futurism(s)
  • Baepunk, Baipunk, Baypunk, Bombaypunk, Bahiapunk, Mumbaipunk
  • Delhipunk, Dillipunk
  • Pāli Futurism(s)
  • Vedic Futurism(s)
  • Indic Futurism(s)
  • Harappan Futurism(s)
  • Indo-French Futurism(s)
  • Tamil Futurism(s), Tamizh Futurism(s), Thamizh Futurism(s), Tamilfuturism(s)
  • Bangla Futurism(s), Bengali Futurism(s)
  • Mallu Futurism(s)
  • Malabar Futurism(s)
  • Indo-Russian Futurism(s), Indo Russian Futurism(s)
  • Pakistani Futurism(s)
  • Afghan Futurism(s)
  • Pak-Afghan Futurism(s)
  • Sikh Futurism(s)
  • Punjabi Futurism(s)
  • Khalistani Futurism(s), Khalistan Futurism(s)
  • Kashmiri Futurism(s)
  • Separatist Futurism(s)
  • Zomia Futurism(s)
  • Xomia Futurism(s)
  • Ladakh Futurism(s)
  • Tantric Futurism(s), Tantra Futurism(s)
  • Buddhist Futurism(s)
  • Jain Futurism(s)
  • Sufi Futurism(s)
  • Roma Futurism(s)
  • Muslim Futurism(s)
  • Queer Muslim Futurism(s)
  • Kazakh Futurism(s)
  • Persian Futurism(s), Persianate Futurism(s)
  • Hellenofuturism(s)
  • Egyptian Futurism(s)
  • Cairo Futurism(s), Cairene Futurism(s)
  • New Cairo Futurism(s)
  • Giza Futurism(s)
  • Tunisian Futurism(s)
  • Moroccan Futurism(s)
  • Levant Futurism(s)
  • Mediterranean Futurism(s)
  • Palestinian Futurism(s), Palestine Futurism(s)
  • Turkish Futurism(s)
  • Turkic Futurism(s)
  • Canaan Futurism(s)
  • Jewish Futurism(s)
  • Decolonial Futurism(s), Decolonial Futures
  • Post-Colonial Futurisms, Post Colonial Futurism(s)
  • Pre-Colonial Futurism(s)
  • Neocolonial Futurism(s)
  • Colonial Futurism(s)
  • Anti-Colonial Futurism(s)
  • Anti Futurism(s), Anti-futurism(s)
  • Late Futurism
  • Cimarrón Anti-Futurism(s), Anti-Futurismo(s) Cimarrón, Maroon Anti-Futurism(s)
  • Diasporic Futurism(s)
  • Global South Futurism(s)
  • Southland Futurism(s)
  • Southern Thinking
  • Subaltern Futurism(s)
  • Third World Futurism(s)
  • Latinofuturism(s), Latinofuturismo(s), Latin American Futurism(s)
  • Latinxfuturism(s), Latinxfuturismo(s), Latinéfuturismo(s)
  • Afro-Latinx Futurism(s)
  • Chicanafuturism(s), Chicanafuturismo(s), ChicanXfuturism(s), ChicanXfuturism(s), Xicanafuturism(s), XicanXfuturism(s)
  • Mesoamerican Futurism(s), Mesoamerican Futurismo(s)
  • Mexicafuturism(s), Mexicafuturismo(s)
  • Mestiza Futurism(s), Mestizafuturism(s)
  • Aztec Futurism(s), Aztec-Futurism(s)
  • Mayan Futurism(s)
  • Nahua Futurism(s), Náhuatl Futurism(s), Neo-Náhuatl Futurism(s)
  • Nahua Indigenous Futurism(s)
  • Indian American Futurism(s)
  • First Nations Futurism(s)
  • Métis Futurism(s)
  • Andean Futurism(s)
  • Quechua Futurism(s)
  • Peruvian Futurism(s), Futurismo(s) Peruano
  • Inuit Futurism(s)
  • Inca Futurism(s), Incan Futurism(s)
  • Dominican Futurism(s)
  • Mulatto Futurism(s)
  • American Futurism(s)
  • Post-Columbian Futurism(s)
  • Pre-Columbian Futurism(s)
  • Amazofuturism(s), Amazofuturismo(s), Amazon Futurism(s), Amazonian Futurism(s)
  • Sertãopunk
  • Créole Futurism(s), Kreyòl Futurism(s)
  • Black Quantum Futurism(s)
  • Caribbean Futurism(s)
  • West Indies Futurism(s)
  • Afro-Indian Futurism(s), Afro-Indo Futurism(s)
  • Monsoon Futurism(s)
  • Swamp Futurism(s)
  • Marais Futurism(s)
  • Cathedral Thinking
  • Bayou Futurism(s)
  • Tropical Futurism(s)
  • SEAPunk (SouthEast Asian Solarpunk)
  • Island Futurism(s)
  • Volcanic Futurism(s)
  • Archipelagic Futurism(s), Archipelago Futurism(s)
  • Micronation Futurism(s)
  • Migrant Futurism(s)
  • Mutant Futurism(s), Mutant Futures
  • Nomadic Futurism(s)
  • Hybrid Futurism(s)
  • Pangea Futurism(s)
  • Gaia Futurism(s)
  • Polyfuturism(s)
  • Polyvagal Futures, Polyvagal Futurism(s)
  • Pan-Optic Futurism(s)
  • Polytheistic Futurism(s)
  • Pagan Futurism(s)
  • Skyworld Futurism(s)
  • Cloudpunk, Skypunk, Airpunk
  • Aerocene
  • Floating Futurism(s)
  • Black Sky Thinking
  • Blue Sky Thinking
  • Red Sky Thinking
  • Waterworld Futurism(s)
  • Water City Futurism(s)
  • Pasifikafuturism(s)
  • Pacific Futurism(s)
  • South Pacific Futurism(s)
  • Hawaiian Futurism(s)
  • Tonga Futurism(s), Tongan Futurism(s)
  • Aotearoa Futurism(s)
  • Ōtautahi Futures
  • Māori Futurism(s)
  • Polyfuturism(s)
  • Polynesian Futurism(s)
  • Southeast Asian Futurism(s)
  • Pilipinex Futurism(s), Pinay Futurism(s)
  • Vietnamese Futurism(s)
  • Cambodian Futurism(s)
  • Java Futurism(s)
  • Bali Futurism(s)
  • Siamese Futurism(s)
  • Aboriginal Futurism(s)
  • Tribal Futurism(s)
  • Yugofuturism(s)
  • Hungarofuturism(s)
  • Ukrainian Futurism(s)
  • Easternfuturism(s)
  • Hibernofuturism(s)
  • Celtic Futurism(s)
  • Hiberno-Celtic Futurism(s)
  • Retrofuturism(s)
  • Airship Futurism(s)
  • Pirate Futurism(s)
  • Reverse Futurism(s)
  • Holistic Futurism(s)
  • Mystical Futurism(s)
  • Spiritual Futurism(s)
  • Metta Futurism(s)
  • Romantic Futurism(s)
  • Sensuous Futurism(s)
  • Rasa Futurism(s)
  • Soft Futurism(s), Softer Futurism(s)
  • Protopia, Protopia Futures, Protopian Futures, Protopian Futurism
  • Gulf Futurism(s)
  • Arab Futurism(s), Arabfuturism(s), Arab Futures
  • Habibi Futurism(s)
  • Amazigh Futurism(s), Tamazight Futurism(s)
  • Touareg Futurism(s)
  • Maghreb Futurism(s)
  • Tamazgha Futurism(s)
  • Kemet Futurism(s)
  • SWANA Futurism(s)
  • SSWANA Futurism(s)
  • MENASA Futurism(s)
  • MENA Futurism(s)
  • Saudi Futurism(s)
  • NEOM Futurism(s)
  • Al-Ula Futurism(s)
  • Qiddiya City Futurism(s)
  • Riyadh Futurism(s)
  • Jeddah Futurism(s)
  • Mukaab Futurism(s)
  • Bedouin Futurism(s)
  • Red Sea Futurism(s)
  • Red Sea Thinking
  • Dahab Futurism(s)
  • Sinai Futurism(s)
  • Tashkent Futurism(s)
  • Uzbekistan Futurism(s)
  • Uzbek Futurism(s)
  • Iraqi Futurism(s)
  • Iranian Futurism(s)
  • Irani Futurism(s)
  • Parsi Futurism(s)
  • Yemeni Futurism(s)
  • Orient Express Futurism(s), Orient Express Futures
  • Ghanaian Futurism(s)
  • Haisa Futurism(s)
  • Yoruba Futurism(s)
  • Ingo Futurism(s)
  • Nigerian Futurism(s), Naija Futurism(s)
  • Solarpunk, Sunpunk
  • Desert World Futurism(s), Desert Futurism(s)
  • Arid Futurism(s), Xeric Futurism(s)
  • Sandpunk, Desert Punk
  • Future Punk
  • Steampunk
  • Cyberpunk
  • Dieselpunk
  • Clockpunk
  • Worlding
  • New World
  • ReWorlding
  • ReWilding
  • W.E.I.R.D. (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) Futures
  • W.I.L.D. (Wild-Interconnected-Liminal-Deep) Futures
  • Late Futurism
  • New Mind
  • New Age
  • New Earth
  • Magical Realism(s)
  • Slipstream
  • Regenerative Futures
  • Materialist Futurism(s)
  • Climate Futurism(s)
  • Megacity Futurism(s)
  • Chongqing Futurism(s)
  • Vertical Futurism(s)
  • Superbug Futures
  • Neo-Futurism (Architecture)
  • Neo-Futurism (Theater)
  • Village Futurism(s)
  • Global Village Futurism(s)
  • Vertical Village Futurism(s)
  • Pueblo Futurism(s)
  • Urban Futurism(s)
  • Rural Futurism(s)
  • Prairie Futurism(s)
  • Pastoral Futurism(s)
  • Farming Futurism(s), Farmland Futurism(s)
  • Peri-Urban Futurism(s), Pericene
  • Slum Futurism(s)
  • Suburban Futurism(s)
  • Hood Futurism(s)
  • Ecofuturism(s), Ecological Futurism(s), Ecofutures
  • Organic Futurism(s)
  • Petro Future(s), Petrofuture(s), Petrofuturism(s)
  • Petrosumer Futurism(s)
  • Petrofiction(s)
  • Paleo Future(s), Paleofuturism(s)
  • Nuclear Futurism(s)
  • Fungal Futurism(s), Fungal Futures
  • Garbage Futurism(s), Post Waste
  • Underground Futurism(s), Subterranean Futurism(s)
  • Wasteland Futurism(s)
  • Zoofuturism(s)
  • Bioregional Futures, Bioregional Futurism(s), Bioregionalism, Bioregioning
  • Biofuturism(s)
  • Floral Futurism(s)
  • Florafuturism(s)
  • Faunafuturism(s)
  • Animafuturism(s)
  • Cthulucene
  • Genecene
  • Anthropocene
  • Pyrocene
  • Necrocene
  • Naíocene
  • Symbiocene
  • Wasteocene
  • Archeofuturism(s)
  • Anarcho-Futurism(s), Anarchofuturism(s)
  • Post Futurism(s), Post-Futurism(s)
  • Xenofuturism(s)
  • Xenofeminist Futurism(s)
  • Polar Futurism(s)
  • Arctic Futurism(s)
  • Glacial Futurism(s)
  • Ice World Futurism(s), Ice Age Futurism(s)
  • Tundra Futurism(s)
  • Siberian Futurism(s)
Note
  • See each futurism genre's respective pages for more specifics. What's listed below is related to the broad category of futurisms.

Institutions and Groups

Events

See each futurism genre's respective pages for more.

  • "Friday Late: Beautiful Futures", Science Gallery London, April 25 2025. With Usher Lavelle & ZONE68, Joanna Brinton, Ling Tan & Low Carbon Chinatown, Taio Tarot, Ekaterina Gladkova, Naho Matsuda and Social Cinema London.

Films, Short Films and Series

See each futurism genre's respective pages for more.

Exhibitions & Catalogues

See each futurism genre's respective pages for more.

2021

  • Indigenous Futurisms: Transcending Past/Present/Future, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, February 13 2020–January 3, 2021. Works by Marcus Amerman, Bryon Archuleta, Sonny Assu, Nicholas Galanin, Teri Greeves, Luzene Hill, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Steven Paul Judd, Kite, Elizabeth LaPensée, Daniel McCoy Jr., James McCloud, Ehren Kee Natay, Shelley Niro, Virgil Ortiz, Devin Ronneberg, Sarah Sense, Ryan Singer, Skawennati, Hoka Skenandore, Neal Ambrose Smith, Robert Dale Tsosie, Jeffrey Veregge, Rory Wakemup, Will Wilson, Santiago X, Debra Yepa-Pappan.

2024

  • ARABOFUTURS: Science-fiction et nouveaux imaginaires, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, April 23-October 27 2024. Works by Sophia Al-Maria, Fatima Al Qadiri, Meriem Bennani, Sara Sadik, Skyseeef, Ayham Jabr, Mounir Ayache, Gaby Sahhar, Neïla Czermak Ichti, Tarek Lakhrissi, Ayman Zedani, Larissa Sansour, Søren Lind​, Aïcha Snoussi, Hicham Berrada, Zahrah Al Ghamdi. Curated by Élodie Bouffard and Nawel Dehina.

Discussions and Panels

See each futurism genre's respective pages for more.

  • "Searching for Visionary Futures", DiverseWorks, April 11 2021. Speakers: Antonius Bui, Chandrika, Lovie Olivia, Preetika Rajgariah, S Rodriguez, Y2K. Curated by Ashley Dehoyos.
  • "DXG #2: Thinking Futurisms Critically", The Ignorant Art School Sit-in Curriculum #3, The Department of Xenogenesis, University of Dundee, Online, October 26 2023. Hosted by The Otolith Group with invited speakers.

Conferences, Festivals, Forums and Symposia

See each futurism genre's respective pages for more.

Publications

See each futurism genre's respective pages for more.

Books

The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms, Edited by Taryne Jade Taylor, Isiah Lavender III, Grace L. Dillon, Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, 2023
  • Fred Polak, The Image of the Future, Elsevier Scientific Publ. Comp., Amsterdam, 1973.
  • Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler, Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think, Free Press, Exponential Technology Series, 2012, 400pp.
  • Anthropologies and Futures: Researching Emerging and Uncertain Worlds, 2017.
  • Taryne Jade Taylor, Isiah Lavender III, Grace L. Dillon, Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms, Routledge, Oct 2023, 716 pp. Publisher.

Magazines, Journals, Blogs

  • Future Observatory Journal, Published by the Design Museum of London and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, London. Edited by Arturio Escobar, Dan Hill, Kristina Hill, Lydia Kallipoliti, Ramia Mazé, Timothy Morton, DK Osseo-Asare, Sarah Teasley and Thomas Weaver.
  • Futurisms, The Funambulist, Issue 24, June 2019.
  • The Futurian, Medium, Published by The European Futures Observatory
  • World of Tomorrow Magazine, Taiwan and China, 1975-?, Edited by Clement C. P. Chang.
  • Farsight, Published quarterly by the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies.
  • XLE.LIFE, Edited by artist Kai (Kari) Altmann, 2018-.
  • Journal of Future Studies, Edited by James Dator, Kuo-Hua Chen, Ivana Milojević, Jeanne Hoffman, Peter Bishop, Marcus Bussey, Riel Miller, Tom Lombardo, Tim Dolan, Jake Dunagan, Jay Gary, Cindy Frewen, Seongwon Park, Karla Paniagua, Peter Black, Alex Burns, Matti Minkkinen, Maree Conway, Michael McAllum, Mirjana Beara, Doris Viljoen, Enric Bas, Lavonne Leong, Cheryl Doig, Yelena Muzykina, Aaron Maniam, Laura Nissen, María Mercedes Patrouilleau, Naohiro Shichijo, Ralph Mercer, Reza Dehnavieh, Ron McDowall, Tseng ShengShiang, Snjezana Dubovicki, Sophiana Chua Abdullah, Zabrina Epps, Kirsten Bonde, Clare Cooper, Yanru Lyu, Clem Bezold, Erik F. Øverland, Julius Gatune, William E. Halal, Patrick van der Duin.
  • SFRA Review, Science Fiction Research Association Journal.
  • Human Futures, A Publication of the World Futures Studies Federation.

Videos & Podcasts

  • Futurized, Podcast
  • XLE.LIFE Youtubes and Podcasts
  • Tomorrow Radio, A Global Radio Station for Better Futures, Created by Radar
  • FARSIGHT, Podcast by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
    • "Visiting Sweden's Superfuturist w/Dr. Anders Sandberg", FARSIGHT Podcast, February 4th 2025.
    • "Futurism Has Become Reactionary", Karim Jebari for FARSIGHT Podcast, February 26th 2025.

Essays, Articles, Book Chapters

Theses

  • Johannes Kleske, Future Imaginaries, Masters Thesis for Master of Arts in Future Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, 2020. English version here.
  • Kai (Kari) Altmann, Welcome to the New World I: Emerging Transcultural Futurisms and Presents, Masters Thesis for Master of Arts in Intercultural Practices, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London, 2024. Includes this list of futurisms with links to this Monoskop entry which she created, and her blogs. Spotlight on SSWANA Futurisms and New World, a genre of hybridized, transcultural music and art which she is defining.
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