futurisms
Avant-garde artistic ideologies
Futurisms is the plural of futurism, referring to multiple instances or varieties of forward-looking artistic, cultural, or intellectual movements.
The capitalized Futurism was a specific early 20th-century Italian movement celebrating speed, technology, and modernity, but lowercase futurisms encompasses any ideologies or aesthetics oriented toward imagining or embracing the future: Afrofuturisms reimagine Black identity through science fiction.
African diaspora speculative movement
- cyberpunkDystopian tech-noir fiction
- solarpunkEco-optimist speculative genre
- steampunkRetrofuturistic Victorian science fiction
- biopunkBiotech-focused speculative fiction
dystopia · utopia · science fiction · worldbuilding · extrapolation · post-apocalyptic · space opera · singularity
Faith that innovation solves all
- transhumanismTech-augmented evolution philosophy
- accelerationismIntensify systems to destroy them
- post-humanismPhilosophy decentering human supremacy
- futurologyStudy of coming times
progress · modernization · social evolution · forward-thinking · utopianism · millenarianism · technocracy
Published statement of principles
- avant-gardeInnovative cultural pioneers
- VorticismBritish geometric modernist movement
- dynamismActive, energetic quality
- speedRate of motion
Ability to anticipate futures
- forecastingEstimating future conditions
- trend analysisExamining directional data shifts
- anticipationState of awaiting something
- speculationUnproven theorizing or risky investment
prediction · prospective · think tank · prognostication · long-term thinking · paradigm shift · wildcards
Afrofuturism
African diaspora speculative movement
- cyberpunkDystopian tech-noir fiction
- solarpunkEco-optimist speculative genre
- steampunkRetrofuturistic Victorian science fiction
biopunk · dystopia · utopia · science fiction · worldbuilding · extrapolation · post-apocalyptic · space opera · singularity · speculative fiction
techno-utopianism
Faith that innovation solves all
- transhumanismTech-augmented evolution philosophy
- accelerationismIntensify systems to destroy them
- post-humanismPhilosophy decentering human supremacy
futurology · progress · modernization · social evolution · forward-thinking · utopianism · millenarianism · technocracy
manifesto
Published statement of principles
- avant-gardeInnovative cultural pioneers
- VorticismBritish geometric modernist movement
- dynamismActive, energetic quality
foresight
Ability to anticipate futures
- forecastingEstimating future conditions
- trend analysisExamining directional data shifts
- anticipationState of awaiting something
speculation · prediction · prospective · think tank · prognostication · long-term thinking · paradigm shift · wildcards
futurismstraditionalism
Adherence to inherited customs
traditionalisms · primitivism · archaism · primitivisms · antiquarianism
futurismstraditionalism
Adherence to inherited customs
conservatism · preservationism · classicism · academicism · conventionalism
futurismspastoralism
Mobile livestock husbandry
agrarianism · Luddism · primitivism · anti-industrialism · Arts and Crafts movement
- futuristic designForward-looking visual style
- futuristic cityImagined advanced urban center
- futuristic societyEnvisioned advanced civilization
- futuristic technologyImagined advanced innovations
- futuristic visionConception of tomorrow's world
- retro futurismNostalgic future aesthetics