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fictional expectations: a standalone construct

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Futures studies

imagined future states that actors treat as if they were true, which lets them act and coordinate under uncertainty in capitalism.

In futures studies, fictional expectations refers to imagined future states that actors treat as if they were true, which lets them act and coordinate under uncertainty in capitalism. This meaning comes from Beckert (2016) in Imagined Futures.[1]

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References

Beckert, J. (2016). Imagined Futures. Harvard University Press. https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674545878

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