Future Works
Future Works by Jeff Derksen, published by Talonbooks, Limited on April 8, 2025, is an exploration of time and existence, presented in 86 pages. This work grapples with the complexities of living in the present while remaining aware of potential futures and the temporalities that are often overlooked. Written over a decade marked by significant global challenges, the book reflects on themes such as climate change, social justice, and the impacts of political movements on daily life.
Readers will find a blend of humor and anger as Derksen addresses the struggles of contemporary existence, touching on topics like urban life, environmental action, and the importance of mutual care. The narrative delves into the intersections of human and more-than-human labor, as well as the need for decolonizing our understanding of time. Future Works invites reflection on the last decade’s difficulties while also highlighting the resilience and ethical possibilities that emerge amidst adversity.
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“Future Works grapples with time, asking how to fully live with the present while also being attentive to possible futures and to the lost temporalities buried within the now. It was written haltingly over a decade shaped and troubled by climate change and environmental collapse, the global rise of populist fascism, an invigorated politics of bodily control (biopolitics), mass forced displacement of people, increasing disparities in wealth and resources, and a general understanding that daily life is getting meaner, unsustainably expensive, and generally shitty. Yet underneath this manure, very strong buds have tried to push through — mutual care, deeper social justice, an ethos of living more and working less, environmental action, and more ethical ways of being. This book is about trying to live through the last ugly decade. It’s an angry-funny book about cities and trees, about human and more-than-human labour, about decolonizing temporalities, and about futurity.”–
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