Podcasts about future postcapitalism

Cultural  & Political Theorists Jeremy Gilbert, Alex Williams & Alison Winch share their insights on the societal impacts of technological innovation, the hegemonic power of the Silicon Valley tech billionaires, and re-engineering digital platforms for democratic purposes. Jeremy Gilbert is Professor of Cultural & Political Theory at the University of East London. He is the author of Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in an Age of Individualism, Anticapitalism and Culture: Radical Theory and Popular Politics and Twenty-First Century Socialism. He writes regularly in the British press, is the current editor of the journal New Formations, and hosts three regular podcasts: #ACFM (on Novara Media); Love is the Message; Culture, Power, Politics. Alex Williams is a political theorist and lecturer in digital media and society currently based at the University of East Anglia. His writings include Political Hegemony and Social Complexity, Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work (with Nick Srnicek), as well as numerous articles on the future of left politics and contemporary formations of digital power. Alison Winch is a Lecturer in Promotional Media at Goldsmiths. She researches intimacy, power and sexual politics in a branded media culture. Her books include The New Patriarchs of Digital Capitalism: Celebrity Tech Founders and Networks of Power (Routledge 2021), which is co-authored with Ben Little. Her monograph Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood (Palgrave, 2013) looks at how the affect of friendship is harnessed in a media culture. This episode was recorded in front of a live audience for an event in partnership with SPACE4 & Housmans Bookshop. ABOUT THE HOST Luke Robert Mason is a British-born futures theorist who is passionate about engaging the public with emerging scientific theories and technological developments. He hosts documentaries for Futurism, and has contributed to BBC Radio, BBC One, The Guardian, Discovery Channel, VICE Motherboard and Wired Magazine. CREDITS Producer & Host: Luke Robert Mason Join the conversation on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter at @FUTURESPodcast Follow Luke Robert Mason on Twitter at @LukeRobertMason Subscribe & Support the Podcast at http://futurespodcast.net

Air Date 3/1/2024 We don't have to think too hard to understand the fears of a world in which work, and the ability of millions to support themselves, are lost to automation and artificial intelligence. But that is only a capitalist future in which the benefits of technological advancement are hoarded by the already-wealthy. Today we imagine a different path. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or email Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Transcript BestOfTheLeft.com/Support (Members Get Bonus Clips and Shows + No Ads!) Join our Discord community! SHOW NOTES Ch. 1: Introduction to Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Srnicek & Williams - Dank Audio Stash - Air Date 4-8-21 Introduction to Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams Ch. 2: The People's Republic of Walmart Interview with Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski - Novara Media - Air Date 6-13-19 Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been taken up by the likes of Walmart, Amazon and other multinational corporations. Ch. 3: The Two Futures Of Automation Capitalism VS Socialism - Second Thought - Air Date 12-15-21 With jobs being automated and handed off to machines at an ever-increasing pace, it's only natural to consider what our future will look like. Ch. 4: Planet of the Robots: Four Futures of AI (Documentary) - 1Dime - Air Date 10-15-21 In this video we will be discussing automation, which is often confused with being the ‘technological revolution' in it of itself as it is what the mainstream focuses on, and for good reason, as how we handle automation will determine the trajectory or co Ch. 5: Universal Basic Income Explained (An Automation Solution) - Futurology - Air Date 5-28-24 With jobs being automated and handed off to machines at an ever-increasing pace, it's only natural to consider what our future will look like.   SEE FULL SHOW NOTES MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S) Ch. 9: The People's Republic of Walmart Interview with Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski Part 3 - Novara Media - Air Date 6-13-19 FINAL COMMENTS Ch. 10: Final comments on living our values and stepping away from work MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions) SHOW IMAGE:  Description: Photo of a patch on a backpack that says "What would you do if your income were taken care of?" Credit: "Berlin UBI March" by Patrick Maynard, Flickr | License: CC BY-SA 2.0 | Changes: Cropped   Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com

Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek describe the home and its function as a site of unpaid labor within capitalist economies. Specifically, they explore how modernization and technology have failed to deliver on their promise of making this labor quicker and easier – and the implications this has for how we give and receive care.Helen Hester is Professor of Gender, Technology and Cultural Politics at the University of West London. She is a member of the international working group Laboria Cuboniks. Her books include Beyond Explicit: Pornography and the Displacement of Sex (SUNY Press, 2014), Xenofeminism (Polity, 2018), and Post-Work (Bloomsbury, forthcoming, with Will Stronge).Nick Srnicek is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Economy at King's College London. He is the author of Platform Capitalism (Polity, 2016) and Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work (Verso, 2015 with Alex Williams). SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicineSoundtrack by Mark Pilkingtonwww.redmedicine.xyz

In the second part of our conversation and collaboration with the Coffee with Comrades podcast, we begin seeking out works of literature, cinema, and scholarship that might illuminate Anti-Anti-Utopian blueprints for building new worlds. As Matt remarks, it's virtually impossible to come up with a list of films that would be called utopian, but Pearson argues that you could – in fact – come up with a robust list of fiction and non-fiction texts that spell out the shape of this new genre of hope-making. A developmental syllabus of Anti-Anti-Utopian study may start with Ursula K. Le Guin's iconic and epic “ambiguous utopia,” The Dispossessed (1974), and include Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy of novels (1992-96), as well as  nonfiction books like Erik Olin Wright's Envisioning Real Utopias (2010), Alex Williams & Nick Srnicek's Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work (2015), and A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal by Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos (2019). These visions of still imperfect, but radically more just & egalitarian worlds teach us that striving toward the utopian horizon is neither naive nor impractical, but instead all too necessary and prudent, especially now. As such, The Golden Square affirms that the decommodification of life and democratization of society are not just revolutionary goals, but in fact, the revolutionary project itself. Beyond the ceaseless academic obsessions with diagramming the corpse of our dystopian hellscape, we must chart a path outside our pyramid-shaped cages by realizing the unconditional rights to food, shelter, healthcare, and education for every person on earth – a readymade threshold separating us from the Utopian Sphere. Moving outward, Pearson, Jesse and Matt talk about the key planks that might make up the political philosophy of Anti-Anti-Utopia and how charting an emancipatory path forward requires an intersectional anti-capitalist compass magnetized to the many symbiotic, multilectical transformations necessary to abolish empire. As Matt has been fond of saying of late: “Be like an anarchist,” first and foremost. Comprehensive Show Notes Can Be Found at thefutureisamixtape.com Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com Facebook Twitter Instagram Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow them on Twitter and Instagram, and visit their website.

Support this podcast Team Advantage convenes to discuss Universal Basic Income. Why is it, and why has it gained such popularity over the last few years? What's so appealing about the proposal, and how does this appeal relate to left-wing politics and strategy more generally? What might be the benefits and drawbacks of such a program? What kind of social and political forces would be needed to mobilize for a program of this kind? Further reading: Dan Darrah in Canadian Dimension Paris Marx in Tribune Daniel Zamora in Jacobin The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries by Kathi Weeks Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams

This week we are joined by Alex Williams, co-author of #ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics, "Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work". We discussed Boogaloo Bois latest fashion trends, the coming of the Big Igloo, what's the role of the Dirtbag left within the hegemonic discourse, and the electoral prognosis and transformation of contemporary socialism. All this in light of Alex's most recent book "Political Hegemony and Social Complexity. Mechanisms of Power After Gramsci" (2019).

Today, I’m speaking with Dr. Alex Williams. Alex is co-author of the fantastically provocative book, titled: Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work. He’s also coauthor of a forthcoming book titled Hegemony Now, which updates Antonio Gramasci’s theory of how power operates in societies in light of complexity science.  When he’s not writing, he’s a lecturer at the University of East Anglia in the UK.  Alex and I discuss his book on post capitalism, including things like full automation, universal basic income, and shortening the working week.  We discuss the role of education in how it conditions our ability to imagine radically different futures, and we discuss specific policy ideas, like Thomas Piketty’s work on progressive taxation, Glen Weyl’s work on Radical Markets, and more broadly asking what can we do, from an institutional standpoint, to reclaim the vibrancy and vitality of our possible futures. 

What is platform capitalism? And why is it that Amazon seems to be transitioning from online bookstore to perpetually-expanding defense contractor? This week’s episode features Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum) in discussion with author and academic Nick Srnicek (@n_srnck). Nick’s previous books include “Platform Capitalism” and “Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World without Work.” He joins us to discuss a particularly non-HIPAA compliant app and his own work into the (monopolistic, bad) platforms that dominate our economy today. We have a Patreon and signing up at the $5 tier will give you an extra episode each week. You’ll also gain access to our incredibly powerful Discord server. Sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture If you want to buy one of our recent special-edition phone-cops shirt, shoot us an email at trashfuturepodcast[at]gmail[dot]com and we can post it to you. (£20 for non-patrons, £15 for patrons) Do you want a mug to hold your soup? Perhaps you want one with the Trashfuture logo, which is available here: https://teespring.com/what-if-phone-cops#pid=659&cid=102968&sid=front

George speaks to Alex Williams about his book Inventing the Future - Postcapitalism and a World Without Work, co-authored with Nick Srnicek.

On this episode, Matt & Jesse have a discussion with Kelsey Goldberg (@KelseyFGold) and Jack Suria Linares (@SuriaLinares213) from DSA-Los Angeles chapter about the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Kelsey and Jack explore their childhood and later political awakening by describing the moment (or moments) that led to not only their transcendent belief in socialism, but how they went beyond mere beliefs by deciding to take action and become activists and organizers via their self-discovery process. We will also learn about DSA's history and contributions, as well as its future aims as a consequence of its recent National Convention. Additionally, our visitors to the show will talk about what DSA-LA has in the revolutionary pot that's about to boil over into a Mario-Brothers pasta of comrade-goodness. By the very end of this podcast episode, Kelsey, Jesse and Jack get our ‘DSA-Curious' Comrade, Matthew, to break down his resistance and finally #TrySocialism. Mentioned In This Episode: The National Website for Democratic Socialists of America The Facebook Page for Democratic Socialists of America The Twitter Page for Democratic Socialists of America The Official Homepage for the Los Angeles Chapter of DSA The Facebook Page for DSA-LA The Twitter Page for DSA-LAJeff Stein in Vox: “Nine Questions About the Democratic Socialists of America You Were Too Embarrassed to Ask” A Slacker-Ode as a Comic-Meme: Split Photo Abbott & Costello Vs. Jesse & Matt New Democratic Party (NDP) of Canada: A Historical Guide of Its Policies and Aims A List of Official (& Past) Political Parties in Canada The Guardian: “Thomas Piketty on the Rise of Bernie Sanders: The U.S. Enters a New Political Era” (Translated from Its Original Publication Source: Le Monde - 14 February 2016)The Entrepreneurial Myth Meets the Diseased Myth of the Star System: A Recent Propaganda Ad from IKEA The Service Employee International Union (SEIU): A Wikipedia History The Official Website for SEIU Richard Berman in The Washington Times: “A Story of Union Waste: The Service Union Squanders Millions on a Losing Cause” Rudolf Rocker: A Biography The Anarchist Library: Articles and Books by Rudolf Rocker GoFundMe Accounts for Boston Massacre (the record for GoFundMe, in 2013, was for Jeff Baumen, who raised $805,000.00 from donations) O THE IRONY: Free Healthcare for American Prisoners! (But No Deductibles or Copays?) PBS's 25th Anniversary Special: Looking Back at the LA Riots After the Beating of Rodney King Anna Deavere Smith's Stunning ‘Documentary Theater' Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent - The Documentary (1992) Noam Chomsky Admits He's Not Charismatic But Folks Follow Him Instead for the Ideas He Offers . . .Chris Hedges in Truthdig: “Noam Chomsky is America's greatest intellectual. His massive body of work, which includes nearly 100 books, has for decades deflated and exposed the lies of the power elite and the myths they perpetrate. Chomsky has done this despite being blacklisted by the commercial media, turned into a pariah by the academy and, by his own admission, being a pedantic and at times slightly boring speaker. He combines moral autonomy with rigorous scholarship, a remarkable grasp of detail and a searing intellect. He curtly dismisses our two-party system as a mirage orchestrated by the corporate state, excoriates the liberal intelligentsia for being fops and courtiers and describes the drivel of the commercial media as a form of ‘brainwashing.'” Al Jazeera: “More Americans Joining Socialist Groups Under Trump” The New Republic: “Are the Democratic Socialists of America For Real?” Sarah Silverman at the DNC Convention in 2016: “Can I just say, to the Bernie or Bust People, You're Being Ridiculous.” Matthew Snyder's Co-Organizing for the First Fundraiser in the I.E. for Sanders' Presidential Run: “Our Barn-Storming-for-Bernie Fundraiser in the I.E.” {July 18th, 2015} Why People Support Bernie Sanders from Such a Broad Spectrum of American Society? James Walsh and Guardian Readers: “10 Reasons Why Voters Are Turning to Bernie Sanders” DSA's Official Endorsement for Bernie Sanders' Candidacy for President in 2016 Daniel Denvir's The Dig (Podcast): “The Democratic Socialists of America and the Fight Against Trump” Did Labour Really Gain 150,00 New Members After the General Election? The Guardian: “Heather Heyer, Victim of Charlottesville Car Attack, Was a Civil Rights Activist” The Guardian: “Mother of Charlottesville Victim Heather Heyer: They Tried to Kill My Child to Shut Her Up.” Michael Tomasky in The Guardian: “Should Obama Have Accepted the Nobel Prize?” Rob Wile in The Business Insider: “12 People Who Should Not Have Won The Nobel Peace Prize” Politifact: “Pants on Fire Claim that George Soros Money Went to Women's March Protesters” Antimedia: “That Awkward Moment When One Nobel Peace Prize Winner Bombs Another” President ‘Bomb-Bomb' Obama: This Map Shows Where President Barack Obama Dropped His 26,171 Bombs for 2016 (3,000 More Than 2015) A History of Democratic Socialists of America: 1971-2017 - A Merger of Two Different Groups Occupy Los Angeles: A History Old Memories, Old Photos: Soapbox: Jesse's Anarchist Book & Infoshop in Bellingham, Washington Fugitive Pieces: Matt's Son & Daughter at Occupy Riverside Amy Pleasant in The Huffington Post: “Artists as Activists: Pursuing Social Justice” About DSA-LA, which Started in 2011 & Now Has 1083 Members UCLA's Campus Facilities to Be Used as Athlete's Village for LA's 2028 Olympics The Los Angeles Times Gives Out Letter Grades for Public Officials: Why Eric Garcetti Is Mediocre or Even Awful The Chicago Reader's Article on the DSA Convention for August 2017: “Beyond the ‘Bernie bro': Socialism's Diverse New Youth Brigade” Jack L. Suria-Linares – 2017 NPC Candidate – Local Chapter: Los Angeles To Show Solidarity with Teamster Workers, LA Dock Workers Refused to Unload Any Non-Union Trucks Jia Tolentino: “The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death” Catherine Baab-Muguira in Quartz: “GENERATION 1099: Millennials Are Obsessed with Side Hustles Because They're All We've Got” This Lousy Day in Bullshit Mythologies: For Example, The YFS Magazine as Delusional Self-Pandering: “The Age of the Millennial Entrepreneur Is Upon Us” The Huffington Post: Xennials: The Microgeneration Between Gen X and Millennials Indigenous Action Media: “Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing The Ally Industrial Complex” Denise Cummins in Psychology Today: “Why Gen-X Doesn't Get Millennial . . . or Boomers” John Scalzi's Blog Whatever: “Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is” Briahna Joy Gray in Current Affairs: “How Identity Became a Weapon Against the Left” East Bay DSA Support for SB-562 (Single Payer) Versus Multi-Platform Tendencies for DSA-LA with Nolympics, the Campaign for Making LA a Sanctuary City and Work on LA's Tragic Lack of Solutions for Skid Row. How to Become a Supporting Member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Childcare & Activism: “Caring for Rosie the Riveter's Kids” The DSA's Structure Oscar Wilde: “Socialism is great but it takes up too many evenings.” David Graeber's TEDxWhitechapel talk: “The Possibility of Political Pleasure” {Where He Fully and Sheepishly Admits That He Enjoys Political Meetings} Sophia A. McClennen in Salon Magazine: “10 Reasons Why #DemExit Is Serious: Getting Rid of Debbie Wasserman Schultz Is Not Enough” A Reddit Discussion on the History of the Rose in Revolutionary Socialist Movements The Worker's Song--Both Poignant & Powerful: “Bread and Roses” Joan Baez Sings “Bread and Roses” The Rose Emoji Revolution for DSA: It's Not Just for Valentine's or Mother's Day DSA-LA Videos, which includes the series 30 in 30, and profiles 30 Leftists in 30 days leading up to the May Day in 2017.Vice News (Sports): “Meet Los Angeles's New Anti-Olympics Movement” The Real News (YouTube): Michael Payne from the Charlottesville Chapter of Democratic Socialists of America Retells Harrowing Account of Car-Attack The Deceptively Brilliant and Charming YouTube Video Thanks, Capitalism! Created in Collaboration with DSA-Los Angeles & the DSA National Design Committee (Kelsey Goldberg Narrates the Video) DSA-LA Crashes Garcetti's Re-Election Bash IndieWire's Bullshit (Neoliberal) Article Celebrating Patty Jenkins “Breaking the Glass Ceiling on Director Pay” Snap Election - Thor Ragnarok parody with Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn Jack Suria Linares in New Politics: “DSA Convention: Mapping a Strategy, Avoiding Dead-Ends” Matt's Mention with the Problems with Folk Politics is Explored in Detail with Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek's Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work {And Discussed in Episode 15 of The Future Is A Mixtape} Nick Falkvinges's “3-Pirate Party Rule” in Swarmwise: A Tactical Manual to Changing the World Kelsey Goldberg in Left Side of History: “Do Not Merely Eat Cake” The Socialist Alternative Versus the Green Party Versus the DSA: Organizing Outside of Elections and What Should Count as Success? Mayor-elect Lumumba: Jackson 'to Be the Most Radical City on the Planet' Winning Mayoral Candidate in Jackson, Mississippi: Chokwe Antar LumumbaCathy Woolard for Atlanta MayorCathy Woolard's Competitors for Mayor of Atlanta Bernie Sanders on Democratic Socialism FULL Speech - Georgetown University - Given on November 19, 2015 Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: Email Us: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com Find Us Via Our Website: The Future Is A Mixtape Or Lollygagging on Social Networks: Facebook Twitter Instagram Or Just Become a “Cyberspace-Friend” @Matthew Snyder's Facebook Account

On this episode of The Future Is A Mixtape, Matt & Jesse explore the most exceptional work of utopian thinking since the days of Occupy Wall Street: Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams' Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work (2015). This is the co-hosts third such “CliffPod,” and they will hum over some of the most far-reaching and visionary aspects of this book, weighing out the co-authors' success in diagnosing why the left has been--to use Jesse's apt phrase--“drowning in failures” amid the continued carnage of Neoliberalism's rotisserie blades. Matt & Jesse will also evaluate the insights the authors gain from how the founders of the Mont Pelerin Society were able to masterfully deploy “second hand dealers” and create a winning strategy for the right that the left has yet to match in any transformative way (and which go beyond the Cult of Direct Action and Paper Anarchy). Finally, our Abbot & Costello co-hosts will assess these authors' policy demands and solutions in order to learn why this book about a post-work world is so vital to read for our deserved Star Trek future. Mentioned In This Episode: The Brief Wild History of “CliffsNotes” (Inspiring Our Nascent CliffPods)The Background of Karl Marx's Illustrious & Legendary Quote: Marx's oft-cited comment in The German Ideology that in a communist society (or some version of a post-capitalist society) he would be able to "hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic" has become more famous than what he said in other places, more specifically.To Learn What Marx Actually Thought About What the End of Capitalism Would Look Like, You Would Have to Read What He Wrote in Chapter 32 in Capital: Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy:"Along with the constantly diminishing number of the magnates of capital, who usurp and monopolize all advantages of this process of transformation, grows the mass of misery, oppression, slavery, degradation, exploitation; but with this too grows the revolt of the working-class, a class always increasing in numbers, and disciplined, united, organized by the very mechanism of the process of capitalist production itself. The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under it. Centralization of the means of production and socialization of labor at last reach a point where they become incompatible with their capitalist integument. Thus integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated.” IMPORTANT CORRECTION: Matthew Snyder's allusion to “some weird kind of Mars landing where you have to do mine-work in some bad 1980's Science Fiction film” is actually Peter Hyman's Outland (1981)--the setting of which takes place on Jupiter where Sean Connery must find his inner High Noon as exploited workers mysteriously and ceaselessly continue to die. Caroline Fredrickson's Long Essay in The Atlantic: “There Is No Excuse for How Universities Treat Adjuncts” Matthew Snyder's First Job at Seventeen: J.C. Zips (which is actually just barely in Richland, Washington) Charles Eisenstein's Book, Sacred Economics (2011) and Ian Mackenzie's Short Film Inspired by Eisenstein's Work of NonfictionAlex Williams and Nick Srnicek's Co-Authored Book: Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work (2015) The Indigogo Campaign to Develop a Documentary Based on the Book Inventing the Future Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek's First Co-Authored Work Appeared in the Edited Collection: #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader (2014) Joshua Bregman Visit With Us for Episode 6 of The Future Is A Mixtape: “Ye Are Many, They Are Few” Novara Radio's Podcast of Aaron Bastani Interviewing Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek, the Co-Authors for Inventing the Future Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek Appear on Doug Henwood's Podcast Behind the News to Discuss Their Book Inventing the Future (April 6, 2017) Novara Radio & Aaron Bastani's YouTube Definition of “Fully Automated Luxury Communism”Peter Frase's Four Futures: Life After Capitalism (Our CliffPod of This Masterful Work of Nonfiction Can Be Found Here) “Bernie Sanders Is Magical” as a GIF (& Which Later Inspired Shirt-Makers): Here. The Exact Shirt-Color & Design (the Image of Which Includes Bernie Shooting Rainbows from His Right Hand): Here. The Anarchist Library: Jan D. Matthews' “An Introduction to the Situationists” Jo Freeman's (aka Joreen's) Original Essay: “The Tyranny of Structurelessness”Vice: “We Interviewed the Revolutionaries Pouring Concrete on London's 'Anti-Homeless' Spikes” For a Very Different Interpretation, Read Mark Bray's Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism in Occupy Wall Street The New Yorker's Article on David Graeber and Occupy Wall Street's Offshoot Project, Rolling Jubilee: “A Robin Hood for the Debt Crisis?”The Press-Enterprise: “Occupy Riverside Encampment Removed” (Photo-Gallery) & Article Description of the Event on November 30, 2011: “Occupy Encampment Cleared from Downtown”Jodi Dean's Phrase Worthy of Legendary Quotation Status: “Goldman Sachs doesn't care if you raise chickens.” Here Is a Review from Local-Organic Only Activist Who Quotes the Phrase & Evaluates the Book Fairly. The Overton Window: Neoliberalism Now Owns This Sheet of Glass Laura Marsh in The New Republic: “The Flaws of the Overton Window” Robert Frost's Defense of Poetic Meter & Traditional Poetry Form: “You can't play tennis without a net.” Milton Friedman Defines (Right-)Libertarianism & His Awful Ideas About Accountability and Justice During His 1999 Appearance on Uncommon Knowledge's “Take It To the Limits” Episode The Origins of Negative-Solidarity from Private Workers Toward Public Workers' Pensions: MarketWatch's “The Inventor of the 401(k) Says He Created a ‘Monster'” Bacon's Rebellion: A History of Positive Solidarity & the Land-Barons' Reactionary Aims to Create Negative Solidarity:“It was the first rebellion in the American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part. A similar uprising in Maryland took place later that year. The alliance between indentured servants and Africans (most enslaved until death or freed), united by their bond-servitude, disturbed the ruling class, who responded by hardening the racial caste of slavery in an attempt to divide the two races from subsequent united uprisings with the passage of the Virginia Slave Codes of 1705.” Adam Curtis' Excellent HyperNormalisation (Matt's Favorite Documentary of 2016) The Origin of Margaret Thatcher's Phrase: “TINA” (There Is No Alternative) Broken Social Scene's Brilliant New Album Hug of Thunder and Feist's Marvelous  and Moving Song Lyric: “The future's not what it used to be / but we still gotta get there.” Cory Robin's Magisterial Essay in The Nation: “Reclaiming the Politics of Freedom” Adult Swim's Hilarious and Cutting Satire Short: For-Profit Online University The Digital Aristocracy Versus the Digital Paupers: What Nathan Schneider Explains in America: The Jesuit Review: “How the Digital Economy Is Making Us Gleaners Again” David Graeber in The Baffler: “Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit” Fred Armisen in Portlandia: “Portland Is a City Where Young People Go to Retire” Dave Eggers' The Circle. The Novel Was Also Discussed in Episode 4 of The Future Is A Mixtape: “Terminal Dystopia Syndrome (TDS)” NPR: “Keynes Predicted We Would Be Working 15-Hour Weeks. Why Was He So Wrong?” Shana Lebowitz in Business Insider: “In 1930, economist John Keynes predicted we'd only work 15 hours a week — here's one theory why he was wrong” The Very Interesting But Quiet History of Paul Lafargue: The First to Argue for the 3-Hour Work Day Paul Lafargue's Most Well Known Work: The Right to Be Lazy (1883)Geoffrey Mohan in The Los Angeles Times: “As California's Labor Shortage Grows, Farmers Race to Replace Workers with Robots”David Horsey in The Los Angeles Times: “Robots, Not Immigrants, Are Taking American Jobs” Matt Bruenig's Just-Created & Emergent People's Policy Project (3P)--A Crowd-Founded Anti-Capitalist Thinktank Want to Help the People's Policy Project? Go to Patreon & Donate. The Dig: “Matt Bruenig on Why Welfare Is Great and We Need More of It”And to Close Out This Week's Shownotes About a Post-Work World, I'll End With a Revolutionary Fop Who Proudly Wore Flowers as Lapels . . . Oscar Wilde. As He So Movingly Put It, So Many Years Ago, in The Soul of Man Under Socialism:"A great deal of nonsense is being written and talked nowadays about the dignity of manual labour. There is nothing necessarily dignified about manual labour at all, and most of it is absolutely degrading. It is mentally and morally injurious to man to do anything in which he does not find pleasure, and many forms of labour are quite pleasureless activities, and should be regarded as such. To sweep a slushy crossing for eight hours, on a day when the east wind is blowing is a disgusting occupation. To sweep it with mental, moral, or physical dignity seems to me to be impossible. To sweep it with joy would be appalling. Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt. All work of that kind should be done by a machine." Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: Email Us: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com Find Us Via Our Website: The Future Is A Mixtape Or Lollygagging on Social Networks: Facebook Twitter Instagram

On this episode of The Future Is A Mixtape, Matthew & Jesse go beyond Michael Moore's Where to Invade Next and his apt citations of policy successes in other societies found outside the U.S., and will instead grapple with the stasis of the Left and its tragic inability to wrest change from the Death-Dealers of Neoliberalism. How can we learn from both the past and present to make another world possible? How can we transcend the suffering and carnage found in our daily lives that are as deceptively petty as buying child-socks at Target, but are, nonetheless, consumer rituals made heavy by unseen violence? Join our co-hosts as they do a politically drunk version of Jiu-Jitsu via the wreckage of what lies behind, around and ahead of us. Jesse & Matt will then imagine what strategies and tactics are most deserving of our attention in the here-and-now, so we can transcend The Poison Pyramid and finally arrive at The Golden Square. Mentioned In This Episode: Prior Discussions on The Poison Pyramid: Episode 001 on Religion: “The Desire for Certainty” Episode 002 on Capitalism: “The Invisible Hand” Episode 003 on Celebrity: “Star-Fuckers” Prior Discussions on The Golden Square: Episode 007 on Food: “Grammars of the Palate” Episode 008 on Shelter: “Gimme Shelter” Episode 009 on Healthcare: “An Apple A Day . . .” Episode 010 on Education: “Squaring the Golden Square: Education” Viewing Copies of Michael Moore's Where to Invade Next What is a ShitBox? “The ShitBox Commercial Product Review” The History of Basic Income's Origins from Thomas Paine & Beyond Mother Jones Magazine: “250 Years of Campaigns, Cash, and Corruption: From George Washington to Citizens United, a Timeline of America's History of Political Money Games” Moyers & Company: One-Hour Documentary - “The United States of ALEC” The Original Exposé on the Koch Brothers' Wealth and Political Manipulation by The New Yorker, published in 2010: Jane Mayer's “Covert Operations: The Billionaire Brothers Who Are Waging War on Obama” A Story of Winners and Losers in 99 Homes: YouTube Excerpt of Michael Shannon Discussing Why America Only Bails Out the Winners Ramin Bahrani's 99 Homes: The Feature Film. Starring Laura Dern, Michael Shannon, and Andrew Garfield. The Los Angeles Review of Books: “On Bureaucracy and the Left” by Guy Patrick Cunningham David Graeber's The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity and The Secret Joys of Bureaucracy The Norwegian American: “How Norwegian Do It: National Elections in Norway” The 28ers' Official Website: “The organization was established in 2012 from the ashes of Occupy Riverside, and is now a 501(c)4 non-profit that aims to pass a 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by creating exclusive public financing for all federal elections, and forever sever private wealth from politics.” Joe Scarborough in Politico: “Obama's Friendship with Wall Street” (2011) The Sunlight Foundation: “The Max Baucus Health Care Lobbyist Complex” Lawrence Lessig's TEDtalk: “We the People, and the Republic We Must Reclaim” Counterpunch: “The Woman Who Blew the Whistle on Halliburton Gets Canned” Financial Times on No-Bid Contracts: “Contractors Reap $138bn from Iraq War” UC Davis' Center for Poverty Research: “What Is the History of the Minimum Wage?” The Official Website for Wolf PAC: It's Vision, Plan and Course for Actions Wolf PAC's Progress Toward Calling for a Constitutional Convention: Five States Thus Far What Is an Article V Convention? It's Origins, History and Potential for Change. The ERA Movement: The Equal Rights Amendment Act Beacon Broadside: “Phyllis Schlafly: Still Wrong (and Mean) After All of These Years” Old Enough to Die in War, But Not Old Enough to Vote? A Wikipedia History of the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and How Student Protests Pushed Congress to Enact Its Ratification Process for Later Passage in 1971. The Washington Times: “Noam Chomsky: The Republican Party Most Dangerous Organization ‘in Human History'” The Washington Post: “Democrats Troll House Republicans, Sing and Wave ‘Bye-Bye' as AHCA Passes” Youtube Video of Democrats Singing “Goodbye” Song Youtube Video of Democratic Convention Where Sarah Silverman Says to Berners: “Can I Say to the Bernie-Or-Bust People: You're Being Ridiculous!” Gawker: “Report: Hillary Clinton Used Static Noise Machine to Prevent Reporters from Hearing Fundraising Speech” CNN News: “Sanders Supporters Shower Clinton Motorcade with Dollar Bills” Jane F. McAlevey's No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age Moyers & Company: Marshall Ganz on Making Social Movements Matter: “Occupy Mistook a Tactic for a Strategy” Murray Bookchin: Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything: The Climate Versus Capitalism Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams: Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work What was the Mont Pelerin Society, Its Aims & Who Was Its Founders? Nancy MacClean's Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America The North Star: Mark Fisher's “Exiting the Vampire Castle” Russell Brand's Brilliant Counterpunches When Being Cross-Examined by Jeremy Paxman on BBC's Newsnight (& Not Getting All the Ethical Issues Right - How DARE HIM!) Cenk Uygur's Ill-Conceived Idea of Starting Justice Democrats Instead of Doubling Down on Wolf PAC New Poll Shows Money in Politics Is A Top Voting Concern According to 2015 Study, 90% of Democrats, 84% of Republicans and 80% of Republicans Say That Money in Politics Has Too Much of an Influence on Our Democracy The Los Angeles Times: “California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon shelves single-payer healthcare bill, calling it 'woefully incomplete'” Ryan Skolnick: “Anthony Rendon Is Wrong: SB 562 Is Not Woefully Incomplete” Robert Pollin's Defense of SB-562 in The Intercept: “Why Single Payer, Now, Is for Real”   Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: Email Us: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com Find Us Via Our Website: The Future Is A Mixtape Or Lollygagging on Social Networks: Facebook Twitter Instagram

In this episode of Living the Dream Jon (@jonpiccini)  and Dave (@withsobersenses) talk with all-round good egg Troy Henderson (@TroyCHenderson) about the idea of a Universal Basic Income.  Troy provides us with an intellectual history and we discuss if it is a techbro attempt to sure up capitalism, a radical social democratic attempt to fix capitalism or if it contains radical elements that point in an anti-capitalist direction? We also talk about why a Jobs Guarantee is horrid and shit.   Some stuff we may have mentioned or should have: Helen Razer UBI is just a bedtime story Elon Musk tells himself to help the super-wealthy sleep Bill Mitchell A basic income guarantee is a neo-liberal strategy for serfdom without the work Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams  Inventing the Future Postcapitalism and a World Without Work Antonio Negri  Benoît Hamon and Universal Income Immaterial Workers of the World (Paolo Virno) What Did I Tell You? Andrew Leigh Why a universal basic income is a terrible idea Chapo Trap House  Episode 123 - UBIsoft feat. Clio Chang (7/10/17) Music includes Soft Pink Things and The Business both covering CRASS

A whole generation of left-wingers in the United Kingdom have never had to deal directly with the question of wielding political power. But following a momentous summer, shocked socialists have found themselves with a radical Labour leadership advocating a ‘new politics’ and espousing ambitious economic vision. Do these developments make traditional strategies of ‘pushing Labour leaders left’ seem… outdated? Can this seismic shift relate to ideas of challenging capitalism? And what can be imagined from ‘Corbyn’s Labour’ – should it attempt to set parameters for an attainable social democratic government in 2020, or can it be something far beyond that? Speakers- ALEX WILLIAMS- co-author (with Nick Srnicek) of ‘Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work’ (Verso, 2015) KEN SPOURS- Professor of Post-Compulsory Education at University College London and author of ‘The Osborne Supremacy: why progressives have to develop a hegemonic politics for the 21st century’ (Compass, 2015) CHARLOTTE NICHOLS- national Women’s Officer of Young Labour Recorded at the Spring conference 2016 Saturday May 21st 2016 People’s History Museum, Left Bank, Manchester.

This past week on Archinect, we heard Thom Mayne's story of "jazz, sex, and the alienation of singular genius" in Julia Ingalls' interview with the Morphosis lead, and hypothesized on the future of architectural work in a world of full automation and universal basic income, based onNicholas Korody's interview with the co-authors behind Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World without Work. Both Ingalls and Korody join us on the podcast to delve deeper into these pieces, and share some juicy tidbits that couldn't make the cut to print.

After an unplanned hiatus, the show is back with a bang. This week I am delighted to welcome Nick Srnicek to the show. Nick, and his co-author Alex Williams, has recently released a new book with Verso called: “Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work’. I bought this book as a christmas present for myself, and it didn’t disappoint - it’s just the book I have been waiting for someone to write! Indeed, I’m kinda annoyed with Nick and Alex, because it’s the book I really wanted to write! In the interview we cover the first half of the book, which takes a critical look at the functioning of the political left today, and a deep look at the history, strategy and tactics of the neoliberals as a counterpoint. I hope to have Alex back on the show in the near future to discuss the second half of the book, which is much less critique and more ‘what is to be done’. Us leftie’s need to get beyond critique, and that includes this show. You can find Nick and Alex’s book here: http://www.versobooks.com/books/1989-inventing-the-future You can also find their blog here: https://syntheticedifice.wordpress.com/ The music on this episode was: ‘The Order of the Pharaonic Jesters’ by Sun Ra and his Arkestra ‘USA iii: rail’ by Dan Deacon ‘Crying In The Chapel’ by Charles Bradley ‘Now Is The Time Of Emotion’ by Prince Rama