Przeszłe przyszłości. Afektywne fakty i historie alternatywne
Past Futures: Affective Facts and Alternative Histories

Summary/Abstract: The goal of this article is to point to the future as a forgotten and understudied but still essential reference point for studies on memory and affects. Bringing B. Massumi’s notion of ‘past futures’ to bear on contemporary Polish literature, Tabaszewska demonstrates that concrete visions of the future are able to change our memories and impact our interpretation of the present. This means, therefore, that the future is – just as the past – the domain of affective politics, the more liable to be manipulated as the future, unlike the past, is always only possible, never certain.

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