EXERCISING: Practicing the Unexpected

In chapter 2, I showed how scenario narratives are chosen, created, and developed and how they mark a move in the governing of uncertainty from probabilistic approaches to plausibilistic ones (see discussions of the “possibilistic approach” in Amoore 2013; Clarke 1999). In other words, scenarios represent a move toward facing the unknown future with imaginable stories, in which a sense of realism is predominant and where acceptance of the future’s uncertainty is the basis for knowledge making about the future. In this chapter, I would like to extend my argument about scenarios to illustrate how it is not just the