Techniques of futuring: On how imagined futures become socially performative

The concept of the future is re-emerging as an urgent topic on academic agenda. In this article, we focus ‘politics future’: social processes and practices that allow particular imagined futures to become socially performative. Acknowledging performativity such well-understood, argue how visions come about why they performative underexplained. Drawing constructivist sociological theory, article aims fill (part of) gap by exploring question ‘how do performative’? doing so, has three (1) identify leading social–theoretical work future; (2) conceptualize relationship imagination with performance reality; (3) provide a theoretical framework explaining images performative, using concepts ‘techniques futuring’ ‘dramaturgical regime’.