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Asma MhallaPolitical theorist · Essayist

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retrofuturismn.

An aesthetic current born in the twentieth century that imagines futures from visions of the past (a future in the manner of the 1950s, for instance) in order to interrogate our imaginaries of progress. Here it becomes a properly political frame of analysis: power recycles narratives of the future, measuring them out alongside a nostalgic and reactionary discourse on values. Retrofuturism is a strategy for mobilising the mass that plays on a double movement: reassuring by projecting

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First public appearance — 9 July 2026, Leipziger Zeitung · Cyberpunk: what today’s post-fascism has in common with the SF novels of the 1980s ↗

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