Editorial: Futures

Holger Pötzsch; Kristine  Jørgensen

doi:10.7557/23.7324

Authors

Holger Pötzsch UiT The Arctic University of Norway https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5533-5014
Kristine Jørgensen University of Bergen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6685-7598

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7557/23.7324

Keywords:

Future, Critical future studies, utopia, dystopia, games and politics

Abstract

The editorial offers some red threads connecting the articles of this issue, introduces each contribution, and takes up some organisational matters.

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