This series argues that emptiness is emerging as a concrete spatial-temporal coordinate in the global landscape of capitalism and state power, and a heuristic device of political struggles. Contributions that range from examining political futures in Scotland to crooked cats in India and from empty apartments in London to abandoned retirement homes in Bosnia converge on emptiness as an analytic that cautions against giving form to futures without recognizing the violence that precedes them. The analytic of emptiness invites dwelling in the in-between space where endings and beginnings, destructions and creations, have not yet been sorted and arranged. This space is not empty, but rather full of humans, nature, things, relations, anticipations, and speculations.