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Beyond Capitalist Dystopia

Author : Davor Džalto
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000604314
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Capitalist Dystopia written by Davor Džalto and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative book interrogates the ideology of capitalism as the "default" narrative underpinning various mainstream ideologies in the contemporary world. The book explores the genesis, structure and functioning of this ideological narrative, provides its critical assessment and outlines a possible alternative, beyond the logic of capitalism and toward a truly free and democratic society. The book takes a broad view of the major global challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic, and persuasively argue that, in order to resolve any of the major global problems, from the ongoing ecological crisis to economic and geopolitical issues, we need to confront the capitalist system. To unpack the logic of contemporary capitalist ideology, and the way it structures our inter-personal and political relations, the book gives an analysis of the "end of ideology" narrative and offers a critical assessment of the ideas behind the widely used but fundamentally flawed concept of "Liberal democracy." The book revisits metaphysical foundations behind the ideology of capitalism, exposing their secular-religious dimension, and their immanent oppressiveness. Based on this deconstruction of the metaphysical foundations implicit in (Neo)Liberalism and capitalism, the book offers a way in which alternative metaphysical foundations can be constructed to allow for different socio-political and economic models that would be based on a radical affirmation of freedom and democracy, as well as human responsibility for the natural environment. Beyond Capitalist Dystopia: Reclaiming Freedom and Democracy in the Age of Global Crises will be of great interest to anyone searching for alternatives to the pervasive ideology of capitalism as well as students and researchers active in various fields in the humanities and social sciences.

Beyond Market Dystopia: New Ways of Living

Author : Greg Albo
Publisher : Monthly Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1583678433
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Market Dystopia: New Ways of Living written by Greg Albo and published by Monthly Review Press. This book was released on 2019-12-23 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays which aim to create a world of agency and justice How can we build a future with better health and homes, respecting people and the environment? The 2020 edition of the Socialist Register, Beyond Market Dystopia, contains a wealth of incisive essays that entice readers to do just that: to wake up to the cynical, implicitly market-driven concept of human society we have come to accept as everyday reality. Intellectuals and activists such as Michelle Chin, Nancy Fraser, Arun Gupta, and Jeremy Brecher connect with and go beyond classical socialist themes, to combine an analysis of how we are living now with visions and plans for new strategic, programmatic, manifesto-oriented alternative ways of living.

Beyond Dystopia!

Author : James Lukasavage
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359567436
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Dystopia! written by James Lukasavage and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-09-29 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Dystopia! is a criticism of life in our current time, the postmodern Anthropocene, and what I am seeking is nothing less than humanity's apotheosis, or, as Voltaire's Candide had it, "le meilleur des mondes possibles," which does not have to be a world without humans, only one with a limited number of humans, doing less.

Beyond Market Dystopia

Author : Leo Panitch
Publisher : Socialist Register
ISBN 13 : 9780850367539
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Market Dystopia written by Leo Panitch and published by Socialist Register. This book was released on 2019-11-09 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we build a future with better health and homes, respecting people and the environment? The 2020 edition of the Socialist Register, Beyond Market Dystopia, contains a wealth of incisive essays that entice readers to do just that: to wake up to the cynical, implicitly market-driven concept of human society we have come to accept as everyday reality. Intellectuals and activists such as Michelle Chen, Nancy Fraser, and Roger Keil connect with and go beyond classical socialist themes, to combine an analysis of how we are living now with visions and plans for new strategic, programmatic, manifesto-oriented alternative ways of living. Crafted with purposeful hope in an age of despair, each essay in this volume aims to create a world of agency and justice.

Utopia Beyond Capitalism in Contemporary Literature

Author : Raphael Kabo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350288578
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Utopia Beyond Capitalism in Contemporary Literature written by Raphael Kabo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring readings of contemporary utopian poetry and fiction from authors such as Juliana Spahr, Mohsin Hamid, Bong Joon-ho, Kim Stanley Robinson, Lidia Yukavitch, and Cory Doctorow, this book investigates the commons - a form of organisation based on collectivity, communalism and sharing - as a type of transition between capitalist precarity and crisis and anti-capitalist futures. Each of the texts under examination was written in opposition to a particular crisis of the capitalist present - inequality, political representation, mobility, and climate change - and develops a particular mode of utopian 'commoning'. Through its examination of these writers, crises and texts, this book reaffirms the use of utopianism as a tool for generating and representing alternative futures for a world in the midst of ongoing planetary crisis.

Planet Utopia

Author : Mark Featherstone
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351815873
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Planet Utopia written by Mark Featherstone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The key figure of the capitalist utopia is the individual who is ultimately free. The capitalist’s ideal society is designed to protect this freedom. However, within Planet Utopia: Utopia, Dystopia, Globalisation, Featherstone argues that capitalist utopian vision, which is most clearly expressed in theories of global finance, is no longer sustainable today. This book concerns the status of utopian thinking in contemporary global society and the possibility of imagining alternative ways of living outside of capitalism. Using a range of sociological and philosophical theories to write the first intellectual history of the capitalist utopia in English, Featherstone provokes the reader into thinking about ways of moving beyond this model of organising social life through sociological modes of thought. Indeed, this enlightening volume seeks to show how utopian thinking about the way people should live has been progressively captured by capitalism with the result that it is difficult to imagine alternatives to capitalist society today. Presenting sociology and sociological thinking as a utopian alternative to the capitalist utopia, Planet Utopia will appeal to postgraduate and postdoctoral students interested in subjects including Sociology, Social Theory, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory and Continental Philosophy.

Beyond Digital Capitalism

Author : Leo Panitch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781773632971
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (329 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Digital Capitalism written by Leo Panitch and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How to live with the new technologies? Essays in the fifty-seventh Socialist Register reveal the contradictions and dislocations of technological change in the twenty-first century. And they explore alternative ways of living: from AI to the arts, from transportation to fashion, from environmental science to economic planning." --Amazon.ca.

Beyond Dystopia!

Author : James Lukasavage
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781981142132
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Dystopia! written by James Lukasavage and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-26 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Dystopia! is a polemic, a prognosis, and a prescription based on historical (and current) fact, and what I am seeking is nothing less than humanity's apotheosis, or as Voltaire's Candide had it, "le meilleur des mondes possibles," which does not have to be a world without humans, only a world with a limited number of humans, doing less. Centrally at issue in Beyond Dystopia! is how the global corporate state systematically classifies, racializes, and as necessary, marginalizes people through social engineering in order to convert them into a compliant, fungible, collective resource in the furtherance of infinite economic growth, even to the demise of life on Earth. But there is perhaps another way! In Beyond Dystopia! we will look back from our current dystopian state, deep into humanity's prehistory, and then to one of two possible futures; one that holds total, global annihilation through overpopulation, hyper-development, and environmental collapse, or a future in which humans have learned to exist in equipoise with nature, and with one another, through transcendental, collective asceticism, and responsible, economic degrowth.

Scorched Earth

Author : Jonathan Crary
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784784478
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Scorched Earth written by Jonathan Crary and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refusing the digital world of late capitalism In this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our “digital age” is synonymous with the disastrous terminal stage of global capitalism and its financialisation of social existence, mass impoverishment, ecocide, and military terror. Scorched Earth surveys the wrecking of a living world by the internet complex and its devastation of communities and their capacities for mutual support. This polemic by the author of 24/7 dismantles the presumption that social media could be an instrument of radical change and contends that the networks and platforms of transnational corporations are intrinsically incompatible with a habitable earth or with the human interdependence needed to build egalitarian post-capitalist forms of life.

Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond

Author : Douglas A. Vakoch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781003152989
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond written by Douglas A. Vakoch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caught as we are in a grave climate crisis that seems more irreversible with every passing year, our literary portrayals of the future often feature the dystopian collapse of the world as we know it. Science fiction explores how we got here, while pointing toward a more hopeful path forward. From an ecofeminist perspective, a core cause of our current ecological catastrophe is the patriarchal domination of nature, playing out in parallel with the oppression of women. As an alternative to dystopian futures that seem increasingly inevitable, ecofeminist science fiction helps us conjure utopias that promote environmental sustainability based on more egalitarian human relationships. Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond: Feminist Ecocriticism of Science Fiction explores the fictional worlds of such canonical novelists as Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, Doris Lessing, and Joan Slonczewski, as well as those of lesser-known science fiction writers, as they collectively probe humanity's greatest existential threats. Contributors from five continents provide compelling analyses of far future dystopias on Earth that are all too easy to imagine becoming reality if humankind's current trajectory continues, as well as provocative insights into science fiction utopias set on idyllic planets orbiting distant stars, which offer liberatory alternatives that might someday be actualized in the real world. By examining the links between the destruction of the environment and the domination of women, Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond provides the tools to counteract those intertwined oppressions, helping create a foundation for a truly habitable world.

Bypassing Dystopia

Author : Joyce Nelson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780995328631
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (286 download)

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Download or read book Bypassing Dystopia written by Joyce Nelson and published by . This book was released on 2018-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Utopia Beyond Capitalism in Contemporary Literature

Author : Raphael Kabo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135028856X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Beyond Capitalism

Author : Giulio Sapelli
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030207692
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Capitalism written by Giulio Sapelli and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new perspective on the financialisation of the economy and its profound technological transformation in an increasingly interdependent and globalised world. A deterioration of capitalist property has led to the reactivation of pre-capitalist social phenomena such as slavery. Meanwhile secular deflation and international destruction of the social state have wrought havoc with all familiar modern welfare infrastructure. Yet, Sapelli argues, there is still hope in the form of the gradual evolution of a community-based socialism based on diverse forms of ownership, co-operative living and working, and sustainable capitalist property. Sapelli presents a severe and dramatic look at the present world, where there is still a light at the end of the tunnel.

Beyond Digital Capitalism: New Ways of Living

Author : Leo Panitch
Publisher : Monthly Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1583678832
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Digital Capitalism: New Ways of Living written by Leo Panitch and published by Monthly Review Press. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays that explore new ways of living with technological change Every year since 1964, the Socialist Register has offered a fascinating survey of movements and ideas from the independent new left. This year's edition asks readers to explore just how we need to live with new technologies. Essays in this 57th Socialist Register reveal the contradictions and dislocations of technological change in the twenty-first century. And they explore alternative ways of living: from artificial intelligence (AI) to the arts, from transportation to fashion, from environmental science to economic planning. Greg Albo - Post-capitalism: Alternatives or detours? Nicole Aschoff and Pankaj Mahta - AI-deology: Science, capitalism and the dream of a ‘people’s AI’ Hugo Radice - There is nothing artificial about AI: Labour, class, utopia, socialism Larry Lohman - Interpretation machines: Contradictions of digital mechanization in twenty-first century capitalism Robin Hahnel - Democratic socialist planning: Against, with and beyond the new technologies Tanner Mirrlees - Platform socialists in the age of digital capitalism Derek Hrynyshyn – Imagining information socialism Bryan Palmer - Capitalism and the clock: Time’s meaning in the struggle for socialism Sean Sweeney and John Treat - Shifting gears: Labour strategies for low-carbon public transit mobility Adam Greenfield - Smart cities, technological traps, democratic possibilities Christoph Hermann - The consequences of commodification: Contours of a post-capitalist society Joan Sangster – The surveillance of service labour: Conditions and possibilities of resistance Jeronimo Montero Bressan - Beyond neoliberal fashion: Imagining clothing production as a human need Massimiliano Mollona - Art/Commons: Art collectives and the post-capitalist imagination Ingar Solty – The world of tomorrow: Scenarios for our future between demise and hope

Analysing Darkness and Light: Dystopias and Beyond

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004681388
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Analysing Darkness and Light: Dystopias and Beyond written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book situates itself in the fields of philosophy, political theory, aesthetics and theories of art, linking its discussions of fictional dystopias to debates on ongoing crises. It asks: Are dystopias a useful tool for imagining ways out of sombre situations or do they prevent us from engaging in transformative action? The book consists of a thorough introduction and three major sections: 1. Dystopias of Meaninglessness, 2. Techno-Euphoria vs. Terror of Technology, and 3. Dystopias Come True? The individual chapters discuss, among other things, liberalism and conservatism, “luxury communism”, pandemics, technology-induced anxiety, empty speech, ethics, film, literature, architecture and music.

A World Beyond Work?

Author : Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787691438
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book A World Beyond Work? written by Ana Cecilia Dinerstein and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book mounts a forceful critique of fashionable thinking on the possibility of a post-work, post-capitalist society achieved through automation, a basic income and the reduction of working hours to zero, suggesting this popular utopia is nothing of the sort.

Another Now

Author : Yanis Varoufakis
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612199569
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Another Now written by Yanis Varoufakis and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would a fair and equal society actually look like? The world-renowned economist and bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis presents his radical and subversive answer in a work of speculative fiction that recalls William Morris and William Gibson The year: 2035. At a funeral for Iris, a revolutionary leftist feminist, Yango is approached by Costa, Iris’s closest comrade, who urges him to carry out Iris’s last wish: plough into her secret diaries to tell their story. “But”, Costa insists “leave out anything that might help Big Tech replicate my technologies!” That night Yango delves into Iris’s diaries. In them he discovers a chronicle of how Costa’s revolutionary technologies had unveiled an actually existing, fully democratized, postcapitalist society. Suddenly he understands Costa’s obsession with the hackers trying to steal his secrets. So begins Yanis Varoufakis’s extraordinary novelistic thought-experiment, where the world-famous economist offers an invigorating and deeply moving vision of an alternative reality. Another Now tells the story of Costa, a brilliant but deeply disillusioned, computer engineer, who creates a revolutionary technology that will allow the user a “glimpse of a life beyond their dreams” but will not enslave them. But an accident during one of its trial runs unveils a cosmic wormhole where Costa meets his DNA double, who is living in a 2025 very different than the one Costa is living in. In this parallel 2025 a global hi-tech uprising, begun in the wake of the collapse of 2008, has birthed a post-capitalist world in which work, money, land, digital networks and politics have been truly democratized. Banks have been eliminated, as well as predatory, data-mining digital monopolies; the gig economy is no more; and the young are free to experiment with different careers and to study ”non-lucrative topics, from Sumerian pottery to astrophysics.” Intoxicated, Costa travels to England to tell Iris, his old comrade, and her neighbor, Eva, a recovering banker turned neoliberal economics professor, of the parallel universe he has discovered. Costa eventually leads them back to his workshop in America where Iris and Eva meet their own doubles, and confront hard truths about themselves and the daunting political challenge that "the Other Now" presents. But, as their obsession with the Other Now deepens, time begins to run out, as the wormhole begins to deteriorate and hackers begin to unleash new attacks on Costa’s technology. The trio have to make a choice: which 2025 do they want to live in? Varoufakis has been claiming for a while that we already live in postcapitalist times. That, since the 2008 crisis, capitalism has been morphing into technofeudalism. Another Now, a riveting work of speculative fiction, shows that there is a realistic, democratic alternative to the technofeudalpostcapitalist dystopia taking shape all around us. It also confronts us with the greatest question: how far are we willing to go to bring it about?