El Abrazo de Ananké

In Greek mythology, the goddess Ananké was the personification of necessity and inevitability. She had no face and was dedicated a shrine alongside Bía, goddess of power. Today, because of its inescapability, Ananké’s embrace lends itself to be interpreted as the danger of subjugating ourselves to future imperatives. When the loss of confidence in the future has become one of the most representative manifestations of the occidental context, statistical prediction is established as a dike of containment in the face of uncertainty. A governance device that mobilises resources, technical infrastructures and human effort aimed at prescribing probable futures and waging a war against the new. In this context, it is pertinent to ask what role this device plays in the current impotence to imagine, criticise and choose collectively. Starting from these questions, the essay investigates the regimes of deferred control, explores the concept of political imagination and ends by testing its possibilities within the framework of current technical cosmogonies.