The Power of Maybes: Machines, Uncertainty and Design Futures
Language: English
Published by Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2026
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- Title
- The Power of Maybes: Machines, Uncertainty and Design Futures
- Author
- Marenko, Betti
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Visual Arts
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1350377317
- ISBN 13
- 9781350377318
In a world of endless predictions and precision algorithms, The Power of Maybes offers a daring new way forward.
What if uncertainty isn't a problem to solve, but a gift? This book reclaims hesitation, ambiguity and not-knowing as powerful tools to resist the rigid control of digital systems. Where machines seek to lock down knowledge, capture potential, dictate futures and foreclose possibilities, The Power of Maybes presents the radical idea that embracing uncertainty is essential in our age of planetary computation and offers ways of cultivating it as a form of resistance.
By reframing the unknown as a powerful resource, Marenko offers a bold approach to living and thinking alongside machines without surrendering to their grip. Blending philosophy, design and critical tech studies, it challenges dystopian fears and utopian hopes about technology, and champions new ways of being-open, ungridded, unscaled. It's a call to cultivate the unknown and nurture potential. For those ready to reclaim their agency in an algorithmic age, The Power of Maybes is a guide to living with oceanic uncertainty-and finding power in it.
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About the Author
Clive Dilnot is professor of Design Studies at Parsons The New School for Design, New York, USA. Recent publications include Ethics? Design? (2005) and the text for Chris Killip: Pirelli Work (2007).
Eduardo Staszowski is Professor of Design Strategies at Parsons School of Design and Director of the Parsons DESIS Lab, USA. He is the co-editor of the Designing in Dark Times, Radical Thinkers in Design, and Beyond the Modern series, and Designing in Dark Times: An Arendtian Lexicon (Bloomsbury, 2020).
Virginia Tassinari is Assistant Professor in the Human-Centered Design Department, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at TU Delft, the Netherlands, and a design researcher for the foresight and design studio Pantopicon, Belgium. She is the co-editor of the Beyond the Modern series and Designing in Dark Times: An Arendtian Lexicon (Bloomsbury, 2020).
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