Accelerated infosphere

Many public opinion leaders have proclaimed during the pandemic that the future is cancelled, although the expression has been flagged several times during the last decade by thinkers Mark Fisher, Franco Berardi, Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek, among others. With these short references I want to highlight the fact that it is impossible to cancel the future. Hence, I want to stress: if we consider it is possible, then, who cancels the future? And the future of who or what?

From a metaphysical point of view, matter was, is and will be. It is the accelerated infosphere what blocks our capacity to act now, in the present, to think and built alternative futures to the catastrophic one scientists, biologists, sociologists and maybe economists are predicting. Franco Berardi (2018) states that “when the acceleration of cyberspace breaks the rhythm of mental time, and we no longer know what is relevant and what is irrelevant in our surrounding environment, this is what we call “chaos”: the inability to attribute meaning to the flow, the breakdown of our framework of relevance. A special vibration of the soul spreads out at this point, which we call “panic”: the subjective recording of chaos.” Therefore, it is the accelerated infosphere who is cancelling something: the present –human, and non-human.