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.