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Fabulous: Remarks on scenarism, simulations, and scenarios

Fabulous: Remarks on scenarism, simulations, and scenarios In “Governing the Future,” Limor Samimian-Darash does much to illuminate scenarism and the divergence between the simulations and the scenarios that constitute the chief apparatuses of anticipatory governance. She renders both of them fabulations, drawing the concept as well as the divergence between simulations and scenarios from the epistemological and ontological precedents that Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze have set. Her renderings are compelling, but leave many epistemological and ontological issues unresolved. I address three of these issues. First, it has to do with what sort of concept scenarism might be. Second, it has to do with the poetics of simulations and scenarios. Third, it has to do with the virtuality or actuality of simulations and scenarios, in their planning as in their enactments. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anthropological Theory SAGE

Fabulous: Remarks on scenarism, simulations, and scenarios

Anthropological Theory , Volume 22 (4): 5 – Dec 1, 2022

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SAGE
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2021
ISSN
1463-4996
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1741-2641
DOI
10.1177/14634996211033443
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Abstract

In “Governing the Future,” Limor Samimian-Darash does much to illuminate scenarism and the divergence between the simulations and the scenarios that constitute the chief apparatuses of anticipatory governance. She renders both of them fabulations, drawing the concept as well as the divergence between simulations and scenarios from the epistemological and ontological precedents that Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze have set. Her renderings are compelling, but leave many epistemological and ontological issues unresolved. I address three of these issues. First, it has to do with what sort of concept scenarism might be. Second, it has to do with the poetics of simulations and scenarios. Third, it has to do with the virtuality or actuality of simulations and scenarios, in their planning as in their enactments.

Journal

Anthropological TheorySAGE

Published: Dec 1, 2022

Keywords: Actual; Deleuze; fabulation; imagination; scenarios; scenarism; simulations; virtual

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