This paper reflects on the emergence of an international effort to codify and cultivate a new ‘human capability’: Futures Literacy. Futures Literacy is understood as the technical expertise to reflexively ‘use the future’ to perceive and inform actions in the present. Its advocates call for Futures Literacy to become a new ‘universal literacy’. While the critical use of ideas of the future to inform action in the present is an educational practice with generative pedagogic and political possibilities, in this paper we show that codifying Futures Literacy in this way risks narrowing what constitutes ‘rational’ uses of the future, positioning a small technocratic elite as authorities in its practice and casting other uses of the future as forms of illiteracy. The paper proposes a different trajectory for ‘Futures Literacy’, in which it divests from assumptions of institutional authority and desires for universal codification, positions itself as one amongst many futures literacies and as allied with a broader repertoire of educational and social struggles over the future. In provincialising Futures Literacy in this way it will be better placed to creatively surface and grapple with the relations of power through which ideas of the future are brought into the present.

本文反映了国际上为编纂和培养一种新的“人类能力”所做的努力：未来素养。未来素养被理解为反射性地“利用未来”来感知和告知当前行动的技术专长。它的倡导者呼吁将期货素养变成一种新的“普遍素养”。虽然批判性地使用未来的思想来为当前的行动提供信息是一种具有生成性教学和政治可能性的教育实践，但在本文中，我们表明以这种方式编纂未来素养有可能缩小构成未来“合理”用途的范围，将一小群技术官僚精英定位为实践中的权威，并将未来的其他用途视为文盲。该论文为“未来素养”提出了不同的轨迹，它摒弃了机构权威的假设和普遍编纂的愿望，将自己定位为众多未来文学中的一员，并与更广泛的未来教育和社会斗争的曲目结盟。以这种方式将未来素养区域化，将更好地创造性地浮出水面并应对权力关系，通过这种关系，未来的想法被带入当下。