Textual history of the future city: Retrofuturism as an algorithm

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to study the algorithms and patterns of social perception of the ‘city of the future’. The following provisions are conceptualized: the social perception of the ‘city of the future’ is determined by the discourse of the city of the past and, thus, is textualized; the cognitive algorithm of social perception of the future is similar to the algorithm of perception of the past; the perception of the past is as subjective as the perception of the future. The institute of epistemological prognostics is proposed as a conceptual basis for planning the city of the future, in the matrix of which ‘development clusters’ occupy a special place. These clusters are similar to the once empty cells of the periodic table and inevitably find their fulfillment in the process of intellectual communication between scientists and practitioners.