Anticipation and its degrees of critical-reflective radicality: opening up the affordances of engaging with futures to problematize STI

Anticipation and its degrees of critical-reflective radicality: opening up the affordances of engaging with futures to problematize STI

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Anticipation is increasingly recognized as a valuable dimension for promoting more responsible STI practices.Various normative frameworks acknowledge anticipation as a means to enable critique and/or reflection.However, the degrees of critique and reflection that anticipation can or should enable have remained under-researched.By exploring the critical-reflective affordances that anticipation could offer for problematizing STIs in the present, cartoon martian with big head this article aims to advance the theoretical development of anticipation as a dimension for promoting more responsible STIs.

The article suggests that the potential critical-reflective radicality of anticipation is modulated by the critical-reflective spaces of problematization and/or scrutiny afforded by the normative frameworks tennessee titans dog bandana in which anticipation is interpreted and for which it is enacted.Against this background, the article provides some tentative variables for assessing these critical-reflective affordances and specifies the roles that different modes of anticipation might play in opening up distinct, interconnected aspects of STI to problematization and/or scrutiny.