Anticipatory modes of futuring planetary change in documentary film

There isn't much doubt left that we are living through a monumentous turning point within global capitalism; a moment that is continually and increasingly sparking new levels of anxiety about the future. In words of Edgar Morin, "the waning years of the twentieth century have given us ample reason to recognize the irremediable uncertainty of human history" (Morin, 2001: 65). These uncertainties, so illustrative of the present time, denote a growing awareness, perhaps a collective presentiment, that by the mid twenty-first century the planet we will inhabit will be dramatically different to the one in which we live today. Until a post-capitalist politics can be fully imagined and can begin to be practiced until new political subjects can emerge in a post-climate change world, the future will continue to present itself as affectively indeterminate.