We live in an age of paradox. While uncertainty seems to be everywhere, predictive machines increasingly organise our lives, anticipate our decisions and capture our potential, funnelling the openness of futures into calculable trajectories.
The Power of Maybes makes a philosophical and political wager: that an allyship with uncertainty is not only possible but necessary.
Moving across philosophy, design and critical technologies, the book reclaims uncertainty as a vital condition of existence, knowledge and resistance, and challenges the habits of thought that reduce the future to
a menu of pre-existing possibilities.
Because futures are not already there, waiting to be predicted.
They are made.
And making them demands that we reclaim the unforeseen, the ambiguous, the hesitant — the maybes through which something genuinely new can emerge.