Page - 37 - in Siting Futurity - The “Feel Good” Tactical Radicalism of Contemporary Culture in and around Vienna

37 introduction to the power of cultural production as well as the increasingly complex and daunting qualities of our present, something I con- textualize with the Jurassic Park, and now World, franchise. Given the overwhelming nature of the fears citizens are con- fronted with in popular culture and beyond, and at our global conjuncture these boundaries too continue to collapse, it be- comes all the more important to focus not on big, fascinating, scary monsters but on building up a citizenry capable of think- ing and acting collectively to ensure that a good life is within reach of as many as possible, which includes an awareness of our material surroundings and how they are being increasingly inflected by capitalist-driven immateriality, in the interrelated form of images and finance capital. The following case studies offer a primer in cultural citizenship-building: learning how to navigate one’s surroundings by approaching them historically and then working to activate the parts of those pasts that lead to the kinds of futures one would want to still be alive for. They are why I love Vienna.