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Introduction to Anticipation Studies

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This Chapter explores some applications of the anticipatory perspective. These explorations start from an awareness of the intrinsic limitations of the forecast-and-control strategy and the subsequent problem of which explicit criteria to use to choose among alternative strategies.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Critical for the institutionalization of Auftragstaktik was the superior military education given to selected officers in the German Kriegsakademie (Silva 1999, 3).

  2. 2.

    As a side note, it is worth mentioning that a concept like Auftragstaktik “could serve as a valuable prism through which one could better envision the development and integration of technology. The German army between 1933 and 1945 integrated the tank, the airplane, and other emerging technologies without changing or altering in any way their system of Auftragstaktik” (Nielsen 1987, 32).

  3. 3.

    For an earlier effort to bridge futures studies and ethics see Poli (2011b). Two collections discussing the many nuances of the capability approach are Comin, Qizilbash, and Alkire (2008) and Deneulin and Shahani (2009).

  4. 4.

    Robeyns distinguishes the three types of individualisms in the following way: ethical individualism assumes that the ultimate unit of concern is the individual; methodological individualism claims that social phenomena can be explained by reference to individuals alone; finally, ontological individualism sees society as merely a sum of its individual parts. As is apparent, there three kinds of individualism address very different problems.

  5. 5.

    See the concept of ‘corrosive disadvantage’ introduced by Wolf and de-Shalit (2007).

  6. 6.

    Nussbaum ’s repeated claim that her approach is a theory of justice only, without further ontological import, is therefore more a self-imposed limitation than a properly theoretical constraint.

  7. 7.

    Hartmann (2002–2004), Scheler (1973), Poli (2006a); (Poli, 2006b, 2008a, 2008b, 2009, 2010, 2011b, 2012).

  8. 8.

    Many different sources have contributed to the paradigm shift within anthropology from the arbitrariness to the universality of basic cultural traits, including the classification of colors (Berlin & Kay, 1969) and the study of facial expressions (Ekman, Sorenson, & Frisen, 1969; Fridlund, 1991; Izard, 1971). On social universals, see (Brown, 1991; Goodenough, 1970; Tiger & Fox, 1971). For an updated, advanced treatment of the complexities of color modeling see (Albertazzi & Poli, 2014).

  9. 9.

    For a different perspective on the generation/consumption of the future, see Adam and Groves (2007).

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Poli, R. (2017). Applying Anticipation. In: Introduction to Anticipation Studies. Anticipation Science, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63023-6_14

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