Abstract: A global community of futurists has responded enthusiastically to the recent “narrative turn” in futures research and practice, embracing the use of storytelling in multiple forms. However, this paper argues that narratology has, to date, neglected such “foretelling” as a distinctive story form. It explores the inadequacies of narratology’s tense-based approaches towards theorizing predictive and prospective narration, and questions whether narratologists and futurists might mutually benefit from a critical toolkit to help parse and develop foretelling qua narrative practice.
Dr. Genevieve Liveley is Professor of Classics, Turing Fellow, and Director of the Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security (RISCS). She is a narratologist whose research interests focus upon narratives and narrative theories (both ancient and modern) and their impact on futures thinking. She has particular research interests in the stories that programme cultural and sociotechnical narratives about technology and risk (especially in relation to cyber security, and to AI). She is co-founder of FLiNT (Futures Literacy through Narrative).
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