From discourse to visioning : eliciting future practice and marginalia

We start this chapter by parading the professional practice discourse on the historical stage. This then sets the backdrop for our discussion of visioning practice and marginalia into the future. Most accounts of the past are at the same time a preparation stage for new beginnings. At times there are smooth transitions from past to present but at other times there are abrupt stops and sudden starts. We then draw out the inevitable and essential opacity of practice. We discuss emergent new speculations about possible future practices and marginalia. We disrupt a seemingly smooth historical flow by discussing current game changers of practice discourse and muse with science fiction to envision what frames practice and marginalia in a post digital, hyper historical and post human world. We ask what will happen to practice discourse as the new public sphere increasingly blurs the professional-educational and public-personal boundaries. What will lead future professional practices and how will politics and power be redistributed in coming eras? In mobile conditions that reduce distances, gaps and blur boundaries who will be the experts, the clients and the learners? What will marginalia look like as neoliberalism continues to radiate the world? We conclude that in the mobile age, discursive conditions have radically revolutionised the possibilities for refreshing practice discourses. There is a need more urgently than ever before to theorise about the human condition and its purpose in a prospective post-human era.