The Insecurity of History
To live every instant as though it were the last - that is the paradox of futurism, of a futurism of the instant that has no future. We might note that it also spells the decline in the propaganda of an endless Progress that, o nly yesterday, still fuelled the history of past centuries . That history is now so wired, so hysterical , that it even claims to foresee actions, the reality of events that have not yet occurred. You'd think that, tomorrow, we'll be able to construct an actual 'History of the Future' - thanks to long-term forecasting. Such micro-narratives would impose themselves on the historicity of the avowed facts, as if the perspective of the real time of instantaneity suddenly annulled all durability. F o r, thanks to certain software programs and the modelling they allow, the mythology of futurism is even gearing up to renew the myths of our origins and of Antiquity.
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