Affordance Futurism

William Stewart, in collaboration with Mary Yacoob
David Jeevendrampillai, Perig Pitrou, Delphine Mercier, Victor Buchli, Istvan Praet, eds., Off Earth Atlas: A Guide to the Social Study of Outer Space, 'Affordance Futurism', Intellect Books, https://intellectdiscover.com/content/books/9781835953983, 2027 Jan

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Stewart, W., & in collaboration with Mary Yacoob. (2027). Affordance Futurism. In D. Jeevendrampillai, P. Pitrou, D. Mercier, V. Buchli, I. Praet, & eds. (Eds.), Off Earth Atlas: A Guide to the Social Study of Outer Space. https://intellectdiscover.com/content/books/9781835953983: Intellect Books.

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Stewart, William, and in collaboration with Mary Yacoob. “Affordance Futurism.” In Off Earth Atlas: A Guide to the Social Study of Outer Space, edited by David Jeevendrampillai, Perig Pitrou, Delphine Mercier, Victor Buchli, Istvan Praet, and eds. https://intellectdiscover.com/content/books/9781835953983: Intellect Books, 2027.

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Stewart, William, and in collaboration with Mary Yacoob. “Affordance Futurism.” Off Earth Atlas: A Guide to the Social Study of Outer Space, edited by David Jeevendrampillai et al., Intellect Books, 2027.

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@inbook{william2027a,
  title = {Affordance Futurism},
  year = {2027},
  month = jan,
  address = {https://intellectdiscover.com/content/books/9781835953983},
  chapter = {'Affordance Futurism'},
  publisher = {Intellect Books},
  author = {Stewart, William and in collaboration with Mary Yacoob},
  editor = {Jeevendrampillai, David and Pitrou, Perig and Mercier, Delphine and Buchli, Victor and Praet, Istvan and eds.},
  booktitle = {Off Earth Atlas: A Guide to the Social Study of Outer Space},
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}

A collaborative project with artist Mary Yacoob, Affordance Futurism explores how off-earth futures are designed, imagined, and rendered sensible through artistic and conceptual practice. It sits at the intersection of worldbuilding, speculative method, and the politics of environment and infrastructure.

As humanity ventures further beyond the terrestrial Earth into the cosmos, we shift our gaze back towards our home, viewing it from a new perspective. The fashionable rhetoric of outer space, influenced by NewSpace actors such as Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Elon Musk, perpetuates colonial legacies and extends capitalist exploitation into the cosmos. The task, then, is to upend these legacies and assumptions to posit anti-colonial outer space futures. What do off-Earth futures look like in light of where we are now? What futures are we afforded when we critically analyse the past and present?