How can the new enter the world? "New" here does not refer to new forms of capitalism, new technological appropriations, or new dimensions of terror, but rather to socially and ecologically just societies. Based on this central question, Hildegard Kurt attempts to free the guiding concept of future viability from its encapsulation in times of future anxiety. A guiding image in this endeavor is that of a "new muse," whose emergence Joseph Beuys had already announced in the early 1980s. Seven essays interrogate the new muse as a muse of future viability, inviting us into a space beyond logical-causal linearity: By perceiving, thinking, and shaping phenomena from the future, transformative, future-oriented thinking and action can draw from a deep, creative source. On her exploratory journeys, the author makes a tr.