Conceptualising the Coming World, Rearming Collective Thought

In his analysis of Kant's “Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?”, Michel Foucault defined modern criticism as a way of detecting a difference in history within one's own time, of being mindful of the plasticity of one's present. Two books expound on the capacity of intellectuals and artists to survey current events and “see what's coming”, identifying what the times are pregnant with and what already pervades them. From the future of industrial societies within the newest forms of c..