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This keynote was delivered on 25 June 2025.

The modern promise of progress opened up the future: it turned it a source of aspiration and possibility, an untapped reservoir, an irresistible infatuation. For over two hundred years, the future was modernity’s call and its consolation, its clarion call and its lullaby. But, after progress, the future is not what it used to be. Given over to the contingencies and upheavals of an earth at loose ends with itself, the future has been rendered precarious when not marked by the threat of catastrophe.

What might it take to dare give up the future in order to give ourselves over to its outside, to other planetary rhythms of urban life?

Reprising the impulses and motifs of Gordon Matta-Clark’s experiment in “anarchitecture” and his aesthetics of collapse, as well as much of what he has learned from the exceptional work of the Urban Institute, this talk makes a case for accompanying the ongoing collective unrest that is the elaboration of urban social life for now, in the planetary mess that is the present tense. Experimenting with the question of the future and its outside in the urban planetary present, Martin probes the potential of a theory of social change after progress, one capable not of building a future but of elaborating infrastructures of sociality out of bounds.