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Opis: Contemporary debates on utopia, dystopia, and retrotopia are often framed as conflicts between competing visions of the future. This paper argues that such figures are better understood as symptomatic expressions of a deeper crisis in the phenomenological articulation of time. What is at stake is not primarily a lack of imagination, but a disruption in the transmission of meaning across past, present, and future. Drawing on Husserl’s late diagnosis of crisis, Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of institution and sedimentation, and postphenomenological accounts of technical mediation, the paper reconstructs the conditions under which temporal sense can remain operative rather than rigidified. It shows that the future remains accessible as an open horizon only insofar as the past functions as a living, revisable ground of meaning,rather than as inert tradition or nostalgic refuge. The analysis further examines how contemporary technoscientific forms of anticipation, while indispensable for understanding large-scale phenomena, risk transforming futurity into a preformatted and governable object, thereby foreclosing the very openness they seek to secure. In dialogue with Levinas’s ethics of responsibility and Waldenfels’s phenomenology of responsiveness, the paper concludes that phenomenology ‘saves’ the future not by stabilizing or predicting it, but by preserving the conditions of transmission, reactivation, and response through which temporal meaning remains generative. Utopia, dystopia, and retrotopia are thus reframed as derivative temporal operators that emerge when the balance between inheritance and anticipation is compromised.
Ključne besede: temporality, crisis, phenomenology, transmission, futurity, technoscience
Objavljeno v RUP: 21.08.2026; Ogledov: 392; Prenosov: 15
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