Histories of the Future

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Histories of the Future 1(18) Daniel Rosenberg Susan Harding A Notebook on Desert Modernism: From the Nevada Test Site to Liberace's Two-Hundred-Pound Suit 19(32) Joseph Masco How to Make Resources in Order to Destroy Them (and Then Save Them?) on the Salvage Frontier 51(24) Anna Tsing The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Politics in the Contemporary Philippines 75(48) Vicente L. Rafael Interlude I Global Futures: The Game 105(18) Anna Tsing Elizabeth Pollman Electronic Memory 123(30) Daniel Rosenberg All That Is Solid Melts into Sauce: Futurists, Surrealists, and Molded Food 153(18) Jamer Hunt Sing Out Ubik 171(30) Pamela Jackson Interlude II Access Fantasy: A Story 185(16) Jonathan Lethem Subject, City, Machine 201(30) Miryam Sas Interlude III Manifesto of the Japanese Futurist Movement 225(6) Hirato Renkichi Miryam Sas The Future of the Old Economy: New Deal Motives in New Economy Investors 231(24) Christopher Newfield Why Rachel Isn't Buried at Her Grave: Ghosts, UFOS, and a Place in the West 255(42) Susan Lepselter Interlude IV The Trouble with Timelines and A Timeline of Timelines 281(16) Daniel Rosenberg Sasha Archibald Living Prophecy at Heaven's Gate 297(24) Susan Harding Trauma Time: A Still Life 321(20) Kathleen Stewart Bibliography 341(14) Notes on Contributors 355(2) Index 357