Tony Fry's latest book is nothing other than revolutionary: a call to reorientate all our knowledge and all our actions (even beliefs) to the sole task of futuring. Rather than letting the world's fate to be determined by the new nihilisms of extreme capitalism, anti-democratic politics, and climate denial, Fry proposes a concrete mission, enjoining us to engage, individually and collectively, in Contrapractice-actions that negate destructive practices and which instead release the potential to redirect action towards futuring. Is there a more important set of connected tasks today?

Matthew Holt, Applied Cybernetics Lead and Deputy Director, Australian National University, Australia

In their clear-eyed dialogue in Contrapractice, Fry and Perera construct a new theory of practice for our times of accelerating climate change, population unsettlement, techno-colonization, and geopolitical uncertainty. What is different from Fry's previous works and cannot be missed is that 'contrapractice' needs a community. It's a call for practitioners of all stripes to take a stand against defuturing in ways that can be started today, amid complex and compounding crises and against worsening conditions. In this sense, Contrapractice offers a new political imagination for a world irrevocably changed by the inhuman and nonhuman of human design.

Abby Melick Lopes, Professor of Social Design, University of Technology Sydney, Australia