Dear reader, visitor from the future, philosophy enthusiast,
We had a blast. It was fantastic. From 2018 through 2025 we organized more than 60 events, over 40 podcast episodes, and more than 20 reading sessions. People met each other, found careers, deeper understanding, and friendship thanks to this platform that we built together.
Personally, this platform has meant the world to me. It opened so many opportunities, friendships and was a treasure trove of deep conversations and new insights.
Over the years, my own path has led me deeper into research and philosophy than I could have anticipated, and at a certain point, doing justice to both Future Based and those personal endeavors simply became too much to sustain.
This was not an easy conclusion to reach, but it felt like the honest one. That said,- never say never. I remain as passionate about the ideas, the conversations, and the community that Future Based represented as I ever was, and I am always open to collaborations, new adventures, and unexpected reunions.
If you want to continue the conversation, our podcast series is still out there waiting for you, a small archive of curiosity, dialogue, and the kind of thinking we love. Dive in.
Cheers, Sabine
BOOK REVIEWS AND REFLECTIONS BY MARIO VEEN
TURNING TO STONE: What is it like to be a planet?
“We are fundamentally Earthlings,” writes Bjornerud in TURNING TO STONE. In the science fiction novella Story of your Life,[i] a linguist and a physicist attempt to initiate a dialogue with an extraterrestrial species hovering in spaceships above [...]
SAD PLANETS makes me happy
“Being an earthling in the present moment is an intrinsically sad proposition; arguably even sadder than previous incarnations due to the social dimension of disaster, hastening an already too fleeting finitude. In simpler terms, it did [...]
Challenging Time: Reading Against Climate Madness
We live in a time when it is crucial to meditate, but also, as Bernard Stiegler put it, “an emergency whose urgency means that it precisely excludes meditation”. Reading is a form of meditation, a form [...]
PODCAST SERIES: BEYOND HUMAN RELATIONS
Credits to the Chicken with Catherine Oliver
Dr Catherine Oliver is a geographer and researcher currently working with urban chickens and keepers in London at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. From September of this year, she will be relocating to Lancaster [...]
Animal Technology with Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas
Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas is Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Animal-Computer Interaction at The University of Glasgow in Scotland (UK). Her research explores how animals interact with computer systems and how to designing and build methods to [...]
Voicing Non-human Life with Klaas Kuitenbrouwer
Klaas Kuitenbrouwer studied history at the University of Utrecht, developed an art practice that moved into the field of digital culture. Since the late1990ies Klaas works at the intersections of culture, technology and ecology and I [...]
