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On this week's Macrodose, Helen Hester invites you to consider what the world will look like as work becomes increasingly automated. What will this mean for people whose job involves looking after people? What about the domestic caring work that is often unpaid and tends to fall most heavily on women and racialised minorities? How do we envision a world after work? Helen Hester is a professor of gender, technology and cultural politics at the University of West London. She is also the author of several books including Xenofeminism tinyurl.com/3bke93ye and, most recently, After Work: A history of the home and the fight for free time - co-written with Nick Srnicek tinyurl.com/4de7krcw A massive thank you to all of our existing Patreon subscribers, your support keeps the show running and we are very grateful. If you have the means and enjoy our work, head over to patreon.com/Macrodose and subscribe today. Find our socials, newsletter and more here: linktr.ee/macrodosepodcast We want to hear from you! Leave a comment or get in touch at macrodose@planetbproductions.co.uk For more about the work we do at Planet B Productions, go to planetbproductions.co.uk
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Conversamos con Juan Antonio Bernier en el marco del festival Oh, Poetry!, que la semana pasada reunió en Albacete a una interesante nómina de autores llegados de muchos puntos del país. El poeta cordobés nos habla de su poemario más reciente, Fruto previo (Ed. Pre-Textos), y de la ascendencia en su vocación de su tío abuelo, el también poeta y miembro del grupo Cántico Juan Bernier, cuya voz recupera en el documental Miles in bello. Juan Bernier en la guerra de los españoles. Luego, Javier Lostalé nos lee unos versos de Gramática de mi madre (Ed. La uña rota), el primer poemario de Almudena Sánchez, una de las artífices de Oh, Poetry!, quien ya había publicado dos novelas en las que exploraba cómo el lenguaje puede llegar a alimentar la incomunicación.En su sección, Ignacio Elguero nos sugiere otros títulos: la Poesía completa de la estupenda poeta peruana Blanca Varela en la editorial Visor, y Cuchillo (Ed. Random House), las impactantes memorias en las que Salman Rushdie habla por primera vez del atentado que sufrió hace dos años y de cómo la palabra puede ayudar a digerir lo impensable.En Peligro en la estación, nuestro colaborador Sergio C. Fanjul nos invita a replantearnos muchas a cosas a propósito de Después del trabajo (Ed. Caja Negra), un ensayo de Helen Hester y Nick Srnicek sobre el presente y el futuro -con el desarrollo de la IA en el horizonte- del trabajo que no consideramos como tal, el no remunerado. Esto es, el trabajo reproductivo, doméstico, de crianza y cuidados.Terminamos en compañía de Mariano Peyrou, que esta vez nos recomienda Metapoéticas (Ed. Pre-Textos), una voluminosa antología de poetas hispanoamericanas contemporáneas seleccionadas por Milena Rodríguez Gutiérrez, María Lucía Puppo y Alicia Salomone, que reúnen aquí poemas sobre el hecho mismo de escribir.Escuchar audio
„Když si vezmete data z reálného trhu práce a začnete zkoumat, jaká je povaha trhu práce v různých vyspělých zemích, ale také, jaká je prognóza na dalších deset let, zjistíte, že nejvíce pracovních míst generujeme ve zdravotnictví,“ upozorňuje akademik Nick Srnicek, který s partnerkou Helen Hester vydal společnou knihu Až skončí práce: Dějiny domácnosti a boje za volný čas.
Youtube for the full experience + Q&A. In the pod, I say to just listen to the audio, but honestly the video is really really fire.Lecture given to our friends at Foreign Objekt, now ON POD.Programmer and Organizer: Sepideh Majidi Moderator: Maure Coise Video Edit: Shaum MehraTons of references here from all over the place, but definitely strongly in debt to the work of many many people. See the YT video for a more complete accounting, but a first pass definitely should call out Suhail Malik (on finance), Benjamin Bratton (on the entanglement between computation and geopolitics), Bogna Konior (on the aesthetic category of the human), Catherine Malabou (especially the later work on anarchism), Brad Troemel + Joshua Citarella + New Models + Interdependence (especially on internet culture), Nick Srnicek (on the platform), Luciana Parisi and Beatrice Fazi (on computational autonomy), Anil Bawa-Cavia (on the computability of the social), Keith Tilford and Andreas Reckwitz (on creativity), and of course
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
In a world increasingly built around convenience, why do we often feel so short of free time? It's a question that's been on the minds of authors Nick Srnicek and Helen Hester. Srnicek is Lecturer in Digital Economy in the Department of Digital Humanities at Kings College London. Hester is Associate Professor of Media and Communication at the University of West London. Together they've written a book, After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time. For this episode, Srnicek joins Carl Miller, co-founder of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think tank Demos, to talk about it. If you'd like to become a Member and get access to all of our longer form interviews and Members-only content, just visit intelligencesquared.com/membership to find out more. For £4.99 per month you'll also receive: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared episodes, wherever you get your podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series - 15% discount on livestreams and in-person tickets for all Intelligence Squared events - Our member-only newsletter The Monthly Read, sent straight to your inbox ... Or Subscribe on Apple for £4.99: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series ... Already a subscriber? Thank you for supporting our mission to foster honest debate and compelling conversations! Visit intelligencesquared.com to explore all your benefits including ad-free podcasts, exclusive bonus content and early access listens. ... Subscribe to our newsletter here to hear about our latest events, discounts and much more. https://www.intelligencesquared.com/newsletter-signup/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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
Our homes are full of helpful gadgets, but how come tech isn't blessing us with more free time? The family is supposed to be a space of rest, but why does it often feel like a place of endless housework drudgery? In their book "After Work" Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek examine how unpaid work in our homes has come to take up an increasing portion of our lives and argue for a fight against housework. Nick joins Dissens to talk about the history of the home, the failed promise of labour-saving technology and how the socialization of care would enable a future with less work for all.
If you've been surfing the tech sphere lately, you may have come across the term e/acc or effective accelerationism as if it was something new. But like most of these tech elite driven ideologies, it's largely a mutation of more naive and sometimes sinister trends. For this episode I spoke to Adam Jones, host of Acid Horizon and Zer0 Books and Repeater Media and author of Anti-Oculus. Anti-Oculus is a psychedelic trip through the eyes of power, exploring avenues of escaping systems of control in our cyberpunk reality.During the interview, Adam helps explain the core of accelerationist theory, where it comes from, and what e/acc is. We also dive into the Techno-Optimist Manifesto from Marc Andreessen ,why it's a giant circle jerk and Nick Land would hate them. If you want to learn more about accelerationism and particularly left accelerationism , check out my interview with Nick Srnicek who wrote the left accelerationist manifesto.If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month. It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter (@TBSocialist) or Mastodon (@theblockchainsocialist@social.coop) and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit and Discord to join the discussion.Support the showICYMI I've written a book about, no surprise, blockchains through a left political framework! The title is Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It and is being published through Repeater Books, the publishing house started by Mark Fisher who's work influenced me a lot in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.
Reza Negarestani has put together one of the strongest philosophical conceptions of Artificial General Intelligence. In this episode, Reza, Marek, and Roberto hit virtually every limit of AI theory -- from the outer banks of the "human", the boundaries of creativity and imagination, the borderlands of contemporary computation, and the social and political and aesthetic implications of all of the above. This episode is a great companion piece to not just Reza's chapter in Choreomata (Galatea Reloaded: Imagination Inside-Out Imagine) but his absolutely mindblowing work Intelligence and Spirit. We reference a few texts in the interview:Intelligence and Spirit (in our opinion, one of the most important treatises on AGI)Reza's work on the "inhuman" in The Labor of the Inhuman and Drafting the InhumanHis collaboration with the brilliant visual artist and theorist Keith Tilford, who also has a significant piece in Choreomata, but who most famously collaborated with Reza on ChronosisReza's conversation with one of our favorite political theorists, Nick Srnicek, via the awesome Impossible Object BooksWhile this episode is quite technical, we are confident that repeat listens are rewarding. Reza will uproot everything you believe about Artificial Intelligence in this incredible interview.
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I spoke to Nick Srnicek, author of 'Platform Capitalism', 'Inventing the Future' and the 'MANIFESTO FOR AN ACCELERATIONIST POLITICS'. Together we dissect the roots of accelerationist politics of which Nick is known for his work on left accelerationism, its controversial implications, and its ongoing interpretation. We discuss why he doesn't like the term accelerationist anymore, the trend of many people in crypto world identifying as accelerationists without knowing what it means, and the fight for freedom from work. We also talk about his latest book 'After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time' which he co-wrote with his partner Helen Hester.Big thank you to Dallas Taylor for helping edit this episode!If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month. It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter (@TBSocialist), Mastodon (@theblockchainsocialist@social.coop), or Bluesky and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit and Discord to join the discussion.Support the showICYMI I've written a book about, no surprise, blockchains through a left political framework! The title is Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It and is being published through Repeater Books, the publishing house started by Mark Fisher who's work influenced me a lot in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.
Does it ever feel like you have no free time? You come home after work and instead of finding a space of rest and relaxation, you're confronted by a pile of new tasks to complete – cooking, cleaning, looking after the kids, and so on. In After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time (Verso, 2023), Dr. Helen Hester and Dr. Nick Srnicek lay out how unpaid work in our homes has come to take up an ever-increasing portion of our lives – how the vacuum of free time has been taken up by vacuuming. Examining the history of the home over the past century – from running water to white goods to smart homes – they show how repeated efforts to reduce the burden of this work have faced a variety of barriers, challenges, and reversals. Charting the trajectory of our domestic spaces over the past century, Dr. Hester and Dr. Srnicek consider new possibilities for the future, uncovering the abandoned ideas of anti-housework visionaries and sketching out a path towards real free time for all, where everyone is at liberty to pursue their passions, or do nothing at all. It will require rethinking our living arrangements, our expectations and our cities. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose doctoral work focused on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
Does it ever feel like you have no free time? You come home after work and instead of finding a space of rest and relaxation, you're confronted by a pile of new tasks to complete – cooking, cleaning, looking after the kids, and so on. In After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time (Verso, 2023), Dr. Helen Hester and Dr. Nick Srnicek lay out how unpaid work in our homes has come to take up an ever-increasing portion of our lives – how the vacuum of free time has been taken up by vacuuming. Examining the history of the home over the past century – from running water to white goods to smart homes – they show how repeated efforts to reduce the burden of this work have faced a variety of barriers, challenges, and reversals. Charting the trajectory of our domestic spaces over the past century, Dr. Hester and Dr. Srnicek consider new possibilities for the future, uncovering the abandoned ideas of anti-housework visionaries and sketching out a path towards real free time for all, where everyone is at liberty to pursue their passions, or do nothing at all. It will require rethinking our living arrangements, our expectations and our cities. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose doctoral work focused on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history
Does it ever feel like you have no free time? You come home after work and instead of finding a space of rest and relaxation, you're confronted by a pile of new tasks to complete – cooking, cleaning, looking after the kids, and so on. In After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time (Verso, 2023), Dr. Helen Hester and Dr. Nick Srnicek lay out how unpaid work in our homes has come to take up an ever-increasing portion of our lives – how the vacuum of free time has been taken up by vacuuming. Examining the history of the home over the past century – from running water to white goods to smart homes – they show how repeated efforts to reduce the burden of this work have faced a variety of barriers, challenges, and reversals. Charting the trajectory of our domestic spaces over the past century, Dr. Hester and Dr. Srnicek consider new possibilities for the future, uncovering the abandoned ideas of anti-housework visionaries and sketching out a path towards real free time for all, where everyone is at liberty to pursue their passions, or do nothing at all. It will require rethinking our living arrangements, our expectations and our cities. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose doctoral work focused on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies
Does it ever feel like you have no free time? You come home after work and instead of finding a space of rest and relaxation, you're confronted by a pile of new tasks to complete – cooking, cleaning, looking after the kids, and so on. In After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time (Verso, 2023), Dr. Helen Hester and Dr. Nick Srnicek lay out how unpaid work in our homes has come to take up an ever-increasing portion of our lives – how the vacuum of free time has been taken up by vacuuming. Examining the history of the home over the past century – from running water to white goods to smart homes – they show how repeated efforts to reduce the burden of this work have faced a variety of barriers, challenges, and reversals. Charting the trajectory of our domestic spaces over the past century, Dr. Hester and Dr. Srnicek consider new possibilities for the future, uncovering the abandoned ideas of anti-housework visionaries and sketching out a path towards real free time for all, where everyone is at liberty to pursue their passions, or do nothing at all. It will require rethinking our living arrangements, our expectations and our cities. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose doctoral work focused on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory
Does it ever feel like you have no free time? You come home after work and instead of finding a space of rest and relaxation, you're confronted by a pile of new tasks to complete – cooking, cleaning, looking after the kids, and so on. In After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time (Verso, 2023), Dr. Helen Hester and Dr. Nick Srnicek lay out how unpaid work in our homes has come to take up an ever-increasing portion of our lives – how the vacuum of free time has been taken up by vacuuming. Examining the history of the home over the past century – from running water to white goods to smart homes – they show how repeated efforts to reduce the burden of this work have faced a variety of barriers, challenges, and reversals. Charting the trajectory of our domestic spaces over the past century, Dr. Hester and Dr. Srnicek consider new possibilities for the future, uncovering the abandoned ideas of anti-housework visionaries and sketching out a path towards real free time for all, where everyone is at liberty to pursue their passions, or do nothing at all. It will require rethinking our living arrangements, our expectations and our cities. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose doctoral work focused on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/architecture
Does it ever feel like you have no free time? You come home after work and instead of finding a space of rest and relaxation, you're confronted by a pile of new tasks to complete – cooking, cleaning, looking after the kids, and so on. In After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time (Verso, 2023), Dr. Helen Hester and Dr. Nick Srnicek lay out how unpaid work in our homes has come to take up an ever-increasing portion of our lives – how the vacuum of free time has been taken up by vacuuming. Examining the history of the home over the past century – from running water to white goods to smart homes – they show how repeated efforts to reduce the burden of this work have faced a variety of barriers, challenges, and reversals. Charting the trajectory of our domestic spaces over the past century, Dr. Hester and Dr. Srnicek consider new possibilities for the future, uncovering the abandoned ideas of anti-housework visionaries and sketching out a path towards real free time for all, where everyone is at liberty to pursue their passions, or do nothing at all. It will require rethinking our living arrangements, our expectations and our cities. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose doctoral work focused on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology
Does it ever feel like you have no free time? You come home after work and instead of finding a space of rest and relaxation, you're confronted by a pile of new tasks to complete – cooking, cleaning, looking after the kids, and so on. In After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time (Verso, 2023), Dr. Helen Hester and Dr. Nick Srnicek lay out how unpaid work in our homes has come to take up an ever-increasing portion of our lives – how the vacuum of free time has been taken up by vacuuming. Examining the history of the home over the past century – from running water to white goods to smart homes – they show how repeated efforts to reduce the burden of this work have faced a variety of barriers, challenges, and reversals. Charting the trajectory of our domestic spaces over the past century, Dr. Hester and Dr. Srnicek consider new possibilities for the future, uncovering the abandoned ideas of anti-housework visionaries and sketching out a path towards real free time for all, where everyone is at liberty to pursue their passions, or do nothing at all. It will require rethinking our living arrangements, our expectations and our cities. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose doctoral work focused on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Does it ever feel like you have no free time? You come home after work and instead of finding a space of rest and relaxation, you're confronted by a pile of new tasks to complete – cooking, cleaning, looking after the kids, and so on. In After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time (Verso, 2023), Dr. Helen Hester and Dr. Nick Srnicek lay out how unpaid work in our homes has come to take up an ever-increasing portion of our lives – how the vacuum of free time has been taken up by vacuuming. Examining the history of the home over the past century – from running water to white goods to smart homes – they show how repeated efforts to reduce the burden of this work have faced a variety of barriers, challenges, and reversals. Charting the trajectory of our domestic spaces over the past century, Dr. Hester and Dr. Srnicek consider new possibilities for the future, uncovering the abandoned ideas of anti-housework visionaries and sketching out a path towards real free time for all, where everyone is at liberty to pursue their passions, or do nothing at all. It will require rethinking our living arrangements, our expectations and our cities. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose doctoral work focused on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/politics-and-polemics
Does it ever feel like you have no free time? You come home after work and instead of finding a space of rest and relaxation, you're confronted by a pile of new tasks to complete – cooking, cleaning, looking after the kids, and so on. In After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time (Verso, 2023), Dr. Helen Hester and Dr. Nick Srnicek lay out how unpaid work in our homes has come to take up an ever-increasing portion of our lives – how the vacuum of free time has been taken up by vacuuming. Examining the history of the home over the past century – from running water to white goods to smart homes – they show how repeated efforts to reduce the burden of this work have faced a variety of barriers, challenges, and reversals. Charting the trajectory of our domestic spaces over the past century, Dr. Hester and Dr. Srnicek consider new possibilities for the future, uncovering the abandoned ideas of anti-housework visionaries and sketching out a path towards real free time for all, where everyone is at liberty to pursue their passions, or do nothing at all. It will require rethinking our living arrangements, our expectations and our cities. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose doctoral work focused on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society
Rudy joins authors Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek to explore their latest book, After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time. The conversation commences with a clear definition of domestic work, setting the stage for the book's unique perspective on this issue in contrast to other theoretical frameworks. The dialogue delves into 20th-century trends in household labor within the global North, with a special focus on Cowan's paradox. Additionally, the episode explores the realm of electronic smart homes and introduces the "maids over machines" principle, highlighting regional variations in caregiving from the global North to the global South. The discussion culminates in an examination of alternative paradigms for addressing household labor, including historical collective infrastructure initiatives from the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as contemporary endeavors like those found in Cuba.
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
Featuring Amna Akbar, Gabriel Winant, and Thea Riofrancos on the American conjuncture. Did an era that began with Occupy and Ferguson—marked by teachers strikes, two Bernie campaigns, the explosive growth of DSA, Standing Rock, and summer 2020 rebellions—just end? What social, political, and economic terrain is emerging in the wake of the pandemic, and how should the left navigate it? The first of a two-part and wide-ranging interview. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDigAll Haymarket books are 40% off! Shop at haymarketbooks.orgBuy After Work by Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek versobooks.com/products/496-after-work Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Featuring Amna Akbar, Gabriel Winant, and Thea Riofrancos on the American conjuncture. Did an era that began with Occupy and Ferguson—marked by teachers strikes, two Bernie campaigns, the explosive growth of DSA, Standing Rock, and summer 2020 rebellions—just end? What social, political, and economic terrain is emerging in the wake of the pandemic, and how should the left navigate it? The first of a two-part and wide-ranging interview. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig All Haymarket books are 40% off! Shop at haymarketbooks.org Buy After Work by Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek versobooks.com/products/496-after-work
Once upon a time we dreamed of a world free from household drudgery, helped by robot butlers, self-cleaning appliances and “smart” homes that saved energy and tidied after themselves. Yet despite decades of high-tech innovation in the home, we’ve barely reduced our workload – and no one’s managed to automate the folding of laundry. So why […]
Professor Étienne Balibar joins Charles Smith and Giselle Williams of Columbia's WKCR for a conversation on the critical theoretic foundations for concrete utopias. This conversation is part of the Utopia 13/13 seminars at the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought. Professor Balibar joined us for Utopia 1/13 at the Maison Française on September 28, 2022. You can find the full recording from the seminar and additional resources on the Utopia 1/13 page here: https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/utopia1313/1-13/ At the seminar, Professor Balibar presented a new paper, “Uncovering lines of escape: towards a concept of concrete utopia in the age of catastrophes." You can read the full paper in English here: https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/utopia1313/etienne-balibar-uncovering-lines-of-escape-towards-a-concept-of-concrete-utopia-in-the-age-of-catastrophes/ In his lecture, “Uncovering lines of escape: towards a concept of concrete utopia in the age of catastrophes,” the philosopher Étienne Balibar develops three dimensions of the urgency of rethinking concrete utopias in these times of crises: first, Balibar discusses the dilemmas surrounding the concept of utopia and utopian thinking, without which there could be no “radical” politics, but at a time and in an age of at least three major catastrophes (the climate, the nuclear, and the digital); second, Balibar explores “real” or “concrete” utopias in light of the Foucauldian distinction between “utopias” and “heterotopias,” which could also be interpreted as a conversion of utopia into heterotopias; third, Balibar concludes on the transcendental problems of the different modalities of the “possible,” the “impossible,” the “necessary,” the “inevitable,” in their relationship to a concept of time (e.g. Bloch's time of “not-yet”), as displaced by the questioning of “utopia” in today's catastrophic circumstances. At the seminar, Professors Balibar and Harcourt discussed Ernst Bloch, The Spirit of Utopia (1918); Michel Foucault, “Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias” (1967/1984); Fredric Jameson, Archaeologies of the Future (2005); Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1847; Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek, Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics (2013; Erik Olin Wright, Envisioning Real Utopias (Verso 2010); and Zapatista Army of National Liberation, Sixth Declaration of the Selva Lacandonia (2005).
Viele Linke sehnen sich nach den "goldenen Jahrzehnten" des Nachkriegs-Keynesianismus zurück, andere wünschen sich eine Postwachstumsgesellschaft, die durch Verzicht und Sparsamkeit sowie von einer Rückabwicklung technologischer Fortschritte gekennzeichnet ist. Dagegen stellt sich eine linke theoretische Strömung, die zum ersten Mal vor knapp zehn Jahren in Deutschland populär wurde. Der Akzelerationismus will den Kapitalismus nicht bremsen, sondern gewissermaßen beschleunigen, um ihn auf diese Weise zu überwinden. Die technischen Fortschritte, die mit dem Aufstieg des Kapitalismus einhergingen, seien notwendig, um eine andere Gesellschaft, in der mehr Freiheit und Wohlstand herrschen, zu errichten. Nicht technik- und fortschrittskritisch sollen Linke sein, auch sollte man keine Furcht vor Digitalisierung und Automatisierung haben, stattdessen liegen genau darin große Chancen, um auf Dauer eine Welt ohne Arbeit zu errichten. Aber ist das wirklich eine realistische Perspektive? Ist eine Gesellschaft denkbar, in der nicht mehr Menschen, sondern nur noch Maschinen die notwendige Arbeit verrichten? In der neuen Folge von „Wohlstand für Alle“ setzen sich Ole Nymoen und Wolfgang M. Schmitt kritisch mit den Akzelerationisten auseinander. Literatur: Armen Avanessian (Hrsg.): Akzeleration, Merve. Armen Avanessian, Robin Mackay (Hrsg.): Akzeleration 2, Merve. Nick Srnicek, Alex Williams: Die Zukunft erfinden. Postkapitalismus und eine Welt ohne Arbeit. Edition Tiamat. Ihr könnt uns unterstützen - herzlichen Dank! Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/oleundwolfgang Konto: Wolfgang M. Schmitt, Ole Nymoen Betreff: Wohlstand fuer Alle IBAN: DE67 5745 0120 0130 7996 12 BIC: MALADE51NWD Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oleundwolfgang Steady: https://steadyhq.com/de/oleundwolfgang/about Twitter: Ole: twitter.com/nymoen_ole Wolfgang: twitter.com/SchmittJunior Die gesamte WfA-Literaturliste: https://wohlstand-fuer-alle.netlify.app
Is Capitalism dead? Are we in what Yanis Varoufakis calls "Techno-Feudalism" ? Or are just moving to a new stage of neoliberal capitalism, such as "Platform Capitalism" (a term coined by Nick Srnicek in his book Platform Capitalism)? In this episode of the 1DIme Radio podcast, I am joined by Ed from the Podcast called "A New Conversation" which you can find linked below. Ed and I have done multiple podcast together related to Political Economy and in this episode, we analyze Yanis Varoufakis's bold claim we are no longer in Capitalism, but a new system called "TechnoFeudalism.' Varoufakis made this claim in his viral speech with Slavoj Žižek. You can find the link to a clip of it below: https://youtu.be/Ghx0sq_gXK4 In this podcast, we also discuss the book "Capital is Dead' by Mckenzie Wark and ponder if Marx's analysis of capitalism is still relevant in today's age of platform capitalism. Check out Ed's Podcast A New Conversation here: https://www.youtube.com/c/ANewConversation/featured Support 1Dime on Patreon and get exclusive podcast episodes at https://www.patreon.com/OneDime Be sure to give 1Dime Radio a 5 Star Rating on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts!
Všimli jste si, jak často se používá sousloví “dávat práci”? Jakoby se jednalo o dar a něco, bez čeho nelze být. A taky že ne. Naše společnosti zatím nepřišly na to, jak se zbavit nutnosti pracovat v době, kdy je práce čím dál méně potřeba, a zároveň se uživit. Kanadský politolog Nick Srnicek prozkoumává absurdní světy zbytečné práce v období robotizace, automatizace a digitálních platforem, a hledá způsoby, jak ji nahradit smysluplnějšími činnostmi. V podcastu Nicka Srniceka provází publicista Petr Bittner, který do češtiny přeložil bestseller Vynalézání budoucnosti (2020), již Srnicek napsal s Alexem Williamsem.Nick Srnicek přednáší digitální ekonomiku na King's College v Londýně. Jeho nejnovější kniha Platform Capitalism nabízí klíč k pochopení inovací v oblasti velkých digitálních společností, jako jsou Google, Amazon a Alibaba. Popisuje rovněž nové trendy v současné ekonomice v důsledku rozvoje digitálních platforem. Ve svém díle se významně zabývá i dlouhou tradicí protipracovní politiky. Jeho první kniha Inventing the Future, kterou napsal společně s Alexem Williamsem, představuje pokus o zpracování protipracovní politiky v kontextu moderních technologických změn. Ve své připravované knize After Work, jejíž spoluautorkou je Helen Hester, se snaží rozšířit protipracovní politiku i do oblasti sociální reprodukce, jelikož zkoumá možnosti uznání, přerozdělení a omezení často neplacené práce jako je úklid, vaření a péče o rodinu.Sledujte nás na sociálních sítích Facebook, Instagram a Twitter.Pozn.: V epizodě je citován text: Nick Srnicek, Alex Williams, Vezmou vám roboti práci?, překlad Martin Vrba (a2larm, 10.09.16): https://a2larm.cz/2016/09/vezmou-vam-roboti-praci/.
Nick Srnicek is a lecturer in Digital Economy at King's College London. He is the author of Platform Capitalism (2016) and Inventing the Future (2015) with co-author Alex Williams. @n_srnck twitter.com/n_srnck
#112 - How future-proof is your job? What effect will the rise in automation have on your industry? How will the gig economy and globalisation affect your chosen career?Researcher and writer Tristram Hooley shares how you can anticipate changes in the labour market and stay employable for the future.What you'll learn[4:23] How career opportunities shift over time and the difficulties in predicting the future of work.[8:21] How automation will change the nature of work but will not threaten individual jobs.[11:36] Indicators that change is beginning to happen in your industry.[15:09] The importance of recognising your transferable skills.[17:32] The difference between technological and political changes, and when you should resist change.[22:48] How Covid has changed the future of work, and how these changes can be both good and bad.[28:30] How different firms are responding to employees working from home.[31:45] The likelihood of companies offshoring work overseas and what individuals can do about this.[35:44] What you can do to stop yourself from becoming obsolete.Resources mentioned in this episode (some of these are affiliate links and we may get a commission in the event that you make a purchase - this helps us to cover our expenses and is at no additional cost to you):Stand Firm, Svend BrinkmannInventing the Future, Nick Srnicek and Alex WilliamsFor the show notes for this episode, including a full transcript and links to all the resources mentioned, visit:https://changeworklife.com/the-future-of-work-and-how-to-stay-employable/Re-assessing your career? Know you need a change but don't really know where to start? Check out these two exercises to start the journey of working out what career is right for you!Take me to the exercises!Also, make sure to join the Change Work Life Facebook group and check out the ways you can support the podcast on the Change Work Life Support page.Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
En esta nueva emisión de #LasVocesDelLibroUR estuvimos hablando con Ezequiel Fanego, co-fundador y editor de Caja Negra Editora, una de las editoriales independientes de habla hispana más reconocidas. Durante la primera parte del programa hablamos un poco sobre los inicios y la apuesta editorial de Caja Negra Editora, así como de sus colecciones de libros: “Numancia”, “Synesthesia” y “Futuros próximos”. En la segunda parte del programa hablamos sobre algunos de los autores de esta editorial argentina, como Simon Reynolds y Nick Srnicek; y de un par de libros publicados por Caja Negra Editora: “Mala noche y otras aventuras ilegales” de Walt Curtis, y “Realismo capitalista. ¿No hay alternativa?” de Mark Fisher. Conduce: Laura Ballesteros Chitiva.Panelistas: Felipe Grismaldo y Luis E. Izquierdo.Produce: Diego A Garzon-Forero, Juan Carlos Ruíz Hurtado y Laura Ballesteros Chitiva.Editorial Universidad del Rosario.Podcast en alianza con Siglo del Hombre Editores.
Derzeit gibt es viele Zeitdiagnosen, in was für einem Kapitalismus wir leben. Shoshana Zuboff spricht von Überwachungskapitalismus, Aaron Sahr von Keystroke-Kapitalismus, Nick Srnicek von Plattform-Kapitalismus. Der Politikwissenschaftler Joscha Wullweber hingegen sagt: Wir leben im Zeitalter des Zentralbankkapitalismus – denn ohne die ständige Intervention der Notenbanken würde das Finanzsystem in kürzester Zeit zusammenbrechen. Über die neue Rolle der Zentralbanken, die Macht der Schattenbanken und die Aufgabe der Regierungen spricht Ole Nymoen im 18. WfA-Spezial mit Joscha Wullweber. Literatur: Joscha Wullweber: Zentralbankkapitalismus. Transformationen des globalen Finanzsystems in Krisenzeiten, Suhrkamp. Ihr könnt uns unterstützen - herzlichen Dank! Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/oleundwolfgang Wolfgang M. Schmitt, Ole Nymoen Betreff: Wohlstand fuer Alle IBAN: DE67 5745 0120 0130 7996 12 BIC: MALADE51NWD Twitter: Ole: twitter.com/nymoen_ole Wolfgang: twitter.com/SchmittJunior Die gesamte WfA-Literaturliste: https://wohlstand-fuer-alle.netlify.app
Sie haben großen Einfluss auf uns, bleiben aber für die meisten von uns unsichtbar: Nahezu jeden Tag begegnen wir Algorithmen, ob es uns bewusst ist oder nicht. Doch wie weit reicht die Macht der Algorithmen? Sind wir auf dem Weg in einen digitalen Monopolkapitalismus? Und was passiert, wenn die KI nicht mehr nur für logische, sondern auch für kreative Prozesse genutzt wird? Ole Nymoen und Wolfgang M. Schmitt analysieren in ihrem gleichnamigen Buch das Phänomen der »Influencer« und zeigen, warum sie als Sozialfiguren symptomatisch für Abstiegsgesellschaft und Spätkapitalismus sind, für welche Ideologien die Werbekörper stehen, wie Influencer rückwärtsgewandte Rollenbilder, Konsumismus und rigide Körpernormen propagieren – und damit einem konservativen Backlash Vorschub leisten. Adrian Daub ist Professor für Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft an der Stanford University und kennt das Silicon Valley aus nächster Nähe. In seinem Essay Was das Valley denken nennt gibt er einen aufschlussreichen Einblick in die Ideengeschichte eines Orts, der gerne so tut, als hätten seine Ideen keine Geschichte. Hanno Rauterberg nimmt in seinem Essay Die Kunst der Zukunft die Kreativität im Zeitalter ihrer technischen Reproduzierbarkeit in den Blick. Dabei geht es weniger darum, wie kreativ künstliche Intelligenz ist, als darum, was es über uns Menschen aussagt, dass wir von einer kreativen künstlichen Intelligenz träumen. In seinem Buch Plattform-Kapitalismus, das 2018 in der Hamburger Edition auf Deutsch erschien, thematisiert Nick Srnicek aus US-amerikanischer Sicht die digitale Transformation des Kapitalismus und die durch monopolistische Unternehmen vorangetriebene Entwicklung von digitalen Plattformen als neues Geschäftsmodell. Die Bücher zur Folge: • »Influencer« von Ole Nymoen und Wolfgang M. Schmitt: http://shrk.vg/Influencer-P • »Was das Valley denken nennt« von Adrian Daub: http://shrk.vg/Valley-P • »Die Kunst der Zukunft« von Hanno Rauterberg: http://shrk.vg/KunstZukunft-P • »Plattform-Kapitalismus« von Nick Srnicek: http://shrk.vg/Srnicek-P
PERSONAJE: Nik Srnicek ENTREVISTADORA: María Jesús Espinosa de los Monteros (periodista) Acogemos en nuestro auditorio virtual el último encuentro del 2020 del programa Tech & Society que realizamos en colaboración de Aspen Institute España. En esta ocasión invitamos al economista Nick Srnicek y a la periodista María Jesús Espinosa de los Monteros. Juntos recorrerán varias de las cuestiones que el economista ha tratado a los largo de sus publicaciones, que se centran en impacto y la relación entre las nuevas tecnologías y los sistemas económicos. Más información en: https://espacio.fundaciontelefonica.com/evento/tech-society-nick-snircek/ Un nuevo espacio para una nueva cultura: visita el Espacio Fundación Telefónica en pleno corazón de Madrid, en la calle Fuencarral 3. Visítanos y síguenos en: Web: http://www.fundaciontelefonica.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fundaciontef Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fundaciontef Instagram: http://instagram.com/fundaciontef YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/CulturaSiglo21
Polarisation is seen as a threat to democracy - and social media is seen as a cause. But what can be done? Does the blame really lie with tech alone? And what could the virtual public square look like if we dared to hit "reset" and redesigned our apps from scratch? A radical and counter-intuitive conversation between Chris Bail, head of the Polarization Lab at Duke University, and Samira Shackle, editor of New Humanist magazine, on tribalism, extremism, and not logging off. For fans of Azeem Azhar, Jonathan Haidt, Nick Srnicek and Shoshana Zuboff.Podcast listeners can get a year's subscription to New Humanist magazine for just £13.50. Head to newhumanist.org.uk/subscribe and enter the code WITHREASONHosts: Samira Shackle and Niki Seth-SmithExecutive producer: Alice BlochSound engineer: David CracklesMusic: DanosongsFurther Reading:"Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing" (2021) Chris Bailwww.polarizationlab.com"Terrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream" (2014) Chris Bail"The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion" (2012), Jonathan Haidt"The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" (2018) Shoshana Zuboff"Platform Capitalism" (2016) Nick Srnicek"Does the Left Have a Problem with Empathy?" (2020) Nicola Cutcher, New Humanist Magazine
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
Part two of the episode with Benjamin Bratton one of the most interesting contemporary thinkers. In his work he bridges the gap between political theory and the techno-social realities and possibilities of our time. On the format: This Future Histories LIVE event came together as part of an invitation to hold a guest lecture at the Goldsmiths College in London. I proposed a format in which I would hold a short presentation on podcasting as a form of extended research and then record an episode live in front of the students. My warmest thanks go out to Mattia Paganelli for the invitation to hold the guest lecture, to Benjamin Bratton for taking part in the interview and discussion and to the students of the Goldsmiths' seminar on Computational Arts for their participation. Shownotes Benjamin Bratton's Homepage: http://www.bratton.info/ Benjamin Bratton on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bratton Website of the Center for Design and Geopolitics: http://www.designgeopolitics.org/ "The Stack. On Software and Sovereignty" (2016) by Benjamin Bratton: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/stack The Terraforming (experimental postgraduate urban design research program at the Strelka Institute in Moscow) Website: https://theterraforming.strelka.com/ "The Terraforming" (2019) by Benjamin Bratton: https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/strelka.storage/2020/4/8100070b-5651-4409-bc4c-cac813e51124/the_terraforming_fin.epub (epub, full book) Introduction Lecture by Benjamin Bratton on "The Terraforming": https://youtu.be/nIStg6jsmQQ Titles, names and concepts mentioned in this episode: Wiki on Stafford Beer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Beer Wiki on Project Cybersyn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn "Cybernetic Revolutionaries" (2011) by Eden Medina: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-revolutionaries "Platform Capitalism" (2016) by Nick Srnicek: https://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509504862 (German) Schadenspiegel: Das Magazin für Schadenmanager, Ausgabe 1/2016, "Man-Made-Katastrophen": https://docplayer.org/37275834-Topics-schadenspiegel-man-made-katastrophen-das-magazin-fuer-schadenmanager-ausgabe-1-2016.html "Digital Socialism? The Calculation Debate in the Age of Big Data" by Evgeny Morozov: https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialism (full article online) "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" (2019) by Shoshana Zuboff: https://profilebooks.com/work/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/ Wiki on Catallaxy and Catallactics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catallactics; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catallaxy Wiki on Friedrich Hayek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek "The Use of Knowledge in Society" (1945) by Friedrich Hayek: https://learn.canvas.net/courses/1446/files/549519/download?download_frd=1 (pdf, full article) Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics: Episode 31 with Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 1): https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e31-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-1/ Episode 32 with Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 2): https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e32-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-2/ (German) Episode 14 mit Harald Welzer zu Kapitalismus, Planwirtschaft & liberaler Demokratie: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e14-interview-mit-harald-welzer-zu-kapitalismus-planwirtschaft-amp-liberaler-demokratie/ (German) Episode 19 mit Jan Philipp Dapprich zu sozialistischer Planwirtschaft: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e19-jan-philipp-dapprich-zu-sozialistischer-planwirtschaft/ (German) Episode 30 mit Paul Feigelfeld zu alternativen Zukünften, Unvollständigkeit & dem Sein in der Technik: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e30-paul-feigelfeld-zu-alternativen-zukuenften-unvollstaendigkeit-amp-dem-sein-in-der-technik/ (German) Episode 38 mit Ulrike Hermann zu kapitalistischer Planwirtschaft: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e38-ulrike-herrmann-zu-kapitalistischer-planwirtschaft/ (German) Episode 39 mit Jens Schröter zur Gesellschaft nach dem Geld: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e39-jens-schroeter-zur-gesellschaft-nach-dem-geld/ If you like Future Histories, you can help with your support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories? Write me at office@futurehistories.today and join the discussion on Twitter (#FutureHistories): https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcast or on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/ www.futurehistories.today Episode Keywords: #FutureHistories, #Podcast, #DataPolitics, #BenjaminBratton, #Interview, #Society, #SyntheticCatallaxy, #Catallaxy, #PlannedEconomy, #Planwirtschaft, #DesignAndGeopolitics, #Terraforming, #Strelka, #CyberneticRevolutionaries, #PlatformCapitalism, #NickSrnicek, #EdenMedina, #Democracy, #SurveillanceCapitalism, #Überwachungskapitalismus, #ShoshanaZuboff, #ProjectCybersyn, #StaffordBeer, #BigData, #EvgenyMorozov, #DigitalSocialism, #SocialistCyberneticPlanning, #Cybernetics, #Cybersyn, #Kybernetik, #SocialistCalculation, #sozialePlanwirtschaft, #kybernetischeGovernance, #OpsRoom, #digitalePlanwirtschaft, #Hayek, #User, #TheStack, #Platform, #PlatformOfPlatforms, #RedPlenty
Benjamin Bratton is one of the most interesting thinkers of our time. In his work he bridges the gap between political theory and the techno-social realities and possibilities of our time. On the format: This Future Histories LIVE event came together as part of an invitation to hold a guest lecture at the Goldsmiths College in London. I proposed a format in which I would hold a short presentation on podcasting as a form of extended research and then record an episode live in front of the students. My warmest thanks go out to Mattia Paganelli for the invitation to hold the guest lecture, to Benjamin Bratton for taking part in the interview and discussion and to the students of the Goldsmiths' seminar on Computational Arts for their participation. Shownotes Benjamin Bratton's Homepage: http://www.bratton.info/ Benjamin Bratton on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bratton Website of the Center for Design and Geopolitics: http://www.designgeopolitics.org/ "The Stack. On Software and Sovereignty" (2016) by Benjamin Bratton: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/stack The Terraforming (experimental postgraduate urban design research program at the Strelka Institute in Moscow) Website: https://theterraforming.strelka.com/ "The Terraforming" (2019) by Benjamin Bratton: https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/strelka.storage/2020/4/8100070b-5651-4409-bc4c-cac813e51124/the_terraforming_fin.epub (epub, full book) Introduction Lecture by Benjamin Bratton on "The Terraforming": https://youtu.be/nIStg6jsmQQ Titles, names and concepts mentioned in this episode: Wiki on Stafford Beer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Beer Wiki on Project Cybersyn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn "Cybernetic Revolutionaries" (2011) by Eden Medina: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-revolutionaries "Platform Capitalism" (2016) by Nick Srnicek: https://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509504862 (German) Schadenspiegel: Das Magazin für Schadenmanager, Ausgabe 1/2016, "Man-Made-Katastrophen": https://docplayer.org/37275834-Topics-schadenspiegel-man-made-katastrophen-das-magazin-fuer-schadenmanager-ausgabe-1-2016.html "Digital Socialism? The Calculation Debate in the Age of Big Data" by Evgeny Morozov: https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialism (full article online) "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" (2019) by Shoshana Zuboff: https://profilebooks.com/work/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/ Wiki on Catallaxy and Catallactics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catallactics; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catallaxy Wiki on Friedrich Hayek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek "The Use of Knowledge in Society" (1945) by Friedrich Hayek: https://learn.canvas.net/courses/1446/files/549519/download?download_frd=1 (pdf, full article) Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics: Episode 31 with Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 1): https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e31-daniel-saros Episode 32 with Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 2): https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/daniel-saros-part-2 (German) Episode 14 mit Harald Welzer zu Kapitalismus, Planwirtschaft & liberaler Demokratie: https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e14-harald-welzer (German) Episode 19 mit Jan Philipp Dapprich zu sozialistischer Planwirtschaft: https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e19-jan-philipp-dapprich (German) Episode 30 mit Paul Feigelfeld zu alternativen Zukünften, Unvollständigkeit & dem Sein in der Technik: https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e30-paul-feigelfeld (German) Episode 38 mit Ulrike Hermann zu kapitalistischer Planwirtschaft: https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e38-ulrike-hermann (German) Episode 39 mit Jens Schröter zur Gesellschaft nach dem Geld: https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e39-jens-schroeter If you like Future Histories, you can help with your support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories? Write me at office@futurehistories.today and join the discussion on Twitter (#FutureHistories): https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcast or on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/ www.futurehistories.today Episode Keywords: #FutureHistories, #Podcast, #DataPolitics, #BenjaminBratton, #Interview, #Society, #SyntheticCatallaxy, #Catallaxy, #PlannedEconomy, #Planwirtschaft, #DesignAndGeopolitics, #Terraforming, #Strelka, #CyberneticRevolutionaries, #PlatformCapitalism, #NickSrnicek, #EdenMedina, #Democracy, #SurveillanceCapitalism, #Überwachungskapitalismus, #ShoshanaZuboff, #ProjectCybersyn, #StaffordBeer, #BigData, #EvgenyMorozov, #DigitalSocialism, #SocialistCyberneticPlanning, #Cybernetics, #Cybersyn, #Kybernetik, #SocialistCalculation, #sozialePlanwirtschaft, #kybernetischeGovernance, #OpsRoom, #digitalePlanwirtschaft, #Hayek, #User, #TheStack, #Platform, #PlatformOfPlatforms, #RedPlenty
Nick Srnicek is a Canadian writer, academic, lecturer in digital economy at King's College London, and The Terraforming expert at Strelka. He is the author of Platform Capitalism (Polity, 2016) and co-author of Inventing the Future (Verso, 2015 with Alex Williams). In this episode, Nick is interviewed by Valentin Diaconov, a Moscow-based curator and art critic. They sit down to talk about the future of work, wage labor, and the most successful experiments with basic income. There is just one day left to join The Terraforming design research program! Find out more and apply: https://theterraforming.strelka.com
On this edition of Parallax Views, Austin Hayden of the co-host of Owls at Dawn and Show Me the Meaning podcasts joins us to discuss Isiah Medina's Inventing the Future: A Cinematic Adaptation, an experimental, avante-garde documentary that Austin helped produce. Based on the book of the same name by scholar Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams, Inventing the Future explores the possibilities of a post-capitalist. future. Srnicek and Williams' critique the limits of leftist movements confining themselves to what they call the "folk politics" of the 1960s, and argue for going through capitalism as a means to reach news modes of being and an eventual post-capitalist society. Isiah's documentary details this premise as well as dealing with Nick and Alex's demands for full automation, universal basic income, and a rejection of the traditional Protestant work ethic. Austin and I discuss all of this as well as the cinematic aspects of the documentary, German filmmaker Werner Herzog's idea of capturing an "ecstatic truth" in the cinematic form, Jean Luc Goddard, the meaning of freedom and liberty, Japan and neoliberalism, and much, much more. All that and much more on this edition of Parallax Views. SUPPORT PARALLAX VIEWSON PATREON! FORBONUS CONTENTANDARCHIVED EPISODES! ANDCHECK OUT OUR SPONSOR: FAILED STATE UPDATEANEW PODCASTFROMJOURNALISTJOSEPH FLATLEY
Was ist neu am digitalen Kapitalismus? Philipp Staab zu proprietären Märkten, Plattformmacht und der Extraktion von Renten im digitalen Zeitalter. Nützliche Informationen & Links: Buch "Digitaler Kapitalismus" von Philipp Staab: https://www.suhrkamp.de/buecher/digitaler_kapitalismus-philipp_staab_7515.html Homepages des Lehrstuhls: https://www.sowi.hu-berlin.de/de/lehrbereiche/zukunftarbeit/mitarbeiter_innen/pstaab Mariana Mazzucato "Das Kapital des Staates": https://marianamazzucato.com/entrepreneurial-state/es-d/ empfehlenswerte Dokumentation über "Quants" von Vpro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed2FWNWwE3I Begriffsdefinition "säkulare Stagnation" im Gabler Wirtschaftslexikon: https://wirtschaftslexikon.gabler.de/definition/saekulare-stagnation-44621 Buch "Platform Capitalism" von Nick Srnicek: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32999998-platform-capitalism Artikel "Digital Socialism" Evgeny Morozov: https://newleftreview.org/issues/II116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialism Future Histories S01E18 mit Simon Schaupp zu Kybernetik und radikaler Demokratie: https://castbox.fm/episode/S01E18---Simon-Schaupp-zu-Kybernetik-und-radikaler-Demokratie-id2228584-id215085737?country=de Future Histories S01E25 mit Joseph Vogl zur Krise des Regierens: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01e25-joseph-vogl Uni-Homepage von Aaron Sahr (Philipp erwähnt ihn in Bezug auf Modern Monetary Theory): https://www.his-online.de/personen/personen-detail/person/aaron-sahr/ Wiki zu Peter Thiel (wird in Zusammenhang mit Monopolen erwähnt): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel Wiki zu Modern Monetary Theory (MMT): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory Artikel in Jacobin zu MMT: https://jacobinmag.com/2019/02/modern-monetary-theory-isnt-helping Wiki zu Joseph Schumpeter: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Schumpeter Paper "Die Steuerungswende" von Simon Schaupp und Georg Jochum: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333642071_Die_Steuerungswende_Zur_Moglichkeit_einer_nachhaltigen_und_demokratischen_Wirtschaftsplanung_im_digitalen_Zeitalter "Cybernetic Revolutionaries" von Eden Medina (Philipp erwähnt das chilenische Project Cybersyn): https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-revolutionaries Wiki Larry Summers (wird in Zusammenhang mit säkularer Stagnation erwähnt): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Summers Wenn euch Future Histories gefällt, dann erwägt doch bitte eine Unterstützung auf Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories? Schreibt mir unter office@futurehistories.today und diskutiert mit auf Twitter (#FutureHistories): https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcast oder auf Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/ www.futurehistories.today
Befinden wir uns in einer Krise des Regieren? Und wenn ja, was macht diese aus und wie kann ihr begegnet werden? Nützliche Informationen & Links: "Das Gespenst des Kapitals" von Joseph Vogl: https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/das-gespenst-des-kapitals-198 "Der Souveränitätseffekt" von Joseph Vogl: https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/der-souveraenitaetseffekt-1717 Zitat in Anmod gefunden in "Gouvernementalität der Gegenwart" Hrsg. Lemke/Bröckling/Krasmann (Suhrkamp): https://www.suhrkamp.de/buecher/gouvernementalitaet_der_gegenwart-_29090.html Zitat in Anmod ursprünglich aus "Der Mensch ist ein Erfahrungstier - Gespräch mit Ducio Trombadori" Michel Foucault (Suhrkamp): https://www.suhrkamp.de/buecher/der_mensch_ist_ein_erfahrungstier-michel_foucault_28874.html spätere Zitate aus Michel Foucault "Kritik des Regierens - Schriften zur Politik" (Suhrkamp): https://www.suhrkamp.de/buecher/kritik_des_regierens-michel_foucault_29533.html Gilles Deleuze "Postskriptum über die Kontrollgesellschaften": https://www.nadir.org/nadir/archiv/netzkritik/postskriptum.html Wiki zu Bretton Woods Abkommen: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton-Woods-System Buch "Digitaler Kapitalismus" von Philipp Staab: https://www.suhrkamp.de/buecher/digitaler_kapitalismus-philipp_staab_7515.html Buch "Platform Capitalism" von Nick Srnicek: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32999998-platform-capitalism Artikel "Digital Socialism" Evgeny Morozov: https://newleftreview.org/issues/II116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialism Wiki zu Karl Polanyi: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Polanyi Communications Decency Act, 47 U.S.C. §230: http://www.columbia.edu/~mr2651/ecommerce3/2nd/statutes/CommunicationsDecencyAct.pdf Wiki zur Eurogruppe: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro-Gruppe Adam Smith "Wealth of Nations" beim Project Gutenberg (kostenloser Download) http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3300 Future Histories S01E11 mit Frieder Vogelmann zu alternativen Regierungskünsten: https://castbox.fm/episode/S01E11---Frieder-Vogelmann-zu-alternativen-Regierungsk%C3%BCnsten-id2228584-id187608520?country=de Wiki zu Oskar Morgenstern (im Zusammenhang mit ergodischer Wahrscheinlichkeit erwähnt): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Morgenstern Wenn euch Future Histories gefällt, dann erwägt doch bitte eine Unterstützung auf Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories? Schreibt mir unter office@futurehistories.today und diskutiert mit auf Twitter (#FutureHistories): https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcast oder auf Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/ www.futurehistories.today
What is accelerationism ?Accelerationism is a radical school of thought, seeking to bring about a postcapitalist society. Accelerationists believe that this aim can be achieved by pushing capitalism past its limits, mainly through technological advances.Contemporary accelerationists include Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams, who created their accelerationist manifesto in 2013. This publication generated a lot of attention and debate in political spheres. In 2015, Srnicek and Williams expanded their manifesto into a monograph entitled “Inventing the Future”. So what makes this new theory any different from other leftist philosophies?Accelerationists believe that traditional left-wing parties are going down the wrong path, continuing to advocate increases to the welfare state. They say the economy is not able to sustain such a policy in the long term. Accelerationists also oppose the ideas of the degrowth movement, which is all about downscaling production and consumption. As the name suggests, accelerationism is about accelerating. Accelerating and going faster than capitalism, in order to overtake it.The theory puts technological advances a t the heart of its political project. We’re talking about artificial intelligence which can limit pollution, robots enabling humans to reduce their time spent working and therefore become emancipated. Technology should therefore not be left in the hands of capitalists, but appropriated and used to increase social justice.Accelerationists therefore don’t see new technologies as being inherently bad. Big data, algorithms and robots can all be adapted to create a new postcapitalist society. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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
A gente não sabe, mas nossa rotina é cheia de exemplos de softwares livres. Eles estão nas catracas do transporte público, na Wikipedia de pesquisa, no software de criptografia e nas bibliotecas de arquivos que podem ser utilizados livremente… O movimento surgiu em 1983, quando Richard Stallman desenvolveu um software chamado GNU e fundou a Free Software Foundation. O objetivo principal é difundir conhecimento e existem requisitos para que uma aplicação possa ser classificada como “livre”. E vale destacar: não é a mesma coisa que Open Source! Conversamos com Ricardo Brazileiro, Sérgio Amadeu da Silveira e Rodrigo Troian para entender muito desse universo e dessas comunidades. Então pluga o seu pen-drive Tails, dá o play e confira o #infocast 61! Links do episódio Free Software Foundation: https://www.fsf.org/pt-br Creative Commons: https://br.creativecommons.org/ GNU/ GPL: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.pt-br.html Free Cad: https://www.freecadweb.org/ Algoritmo RSA: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(sistema_criptogr%C3%A1fico) Livro "Platform Capitalism", de Nick Srnicek http://bit.ly/livro_platformcapitalism Linux: https://www.linux.org/ Calibri: https://calibre-ebook.com/ Arch Linux: https://www.archlinux.org/art/ Open WRT: https://openwrt.org/ Mozilla Firefox: https://www.mozilla.org/pt-BR/ Chromium: https://www.chromium.org/ Thunderbird: https://www.thunderbird.net/pt-BR/ Paranoid Android: http://paranoidandroid.co/ Linage OS: https://lineageos.org/ Enigmail: https://www.enigmail.net/index.php/en/ Tails: https://tails.boum.org/index.pt.html Tor: https://www.torproject.org/ Opera: https://www.opera.com/pt-br Equipe Técnica Produção: Clarissa Viana Responsável técnico: Mario Filho Edição: Maremo.to Sonoplastia: Murillo Prestes
Like&Money, la vita digitale degli utenti di Facebook stretta sempre di più nell'ecosistema di Mark Zuckerberg. Presentata ieri Libra, la criptomoneta che circolerà a partire dal 2020. Dopo i dati sulle preferenze, i gusti, le opinioni, la cassaforte di Zuckerberg custodirà anche i dati sulle nostre transazioni finanziarie. Il capitalismo delle piattaforme (come concepito dallo studioso canadese Nick Srnicek), e della sorveglianza (come teorizzato dalla sociologa statunitense Shoshana Zuboff) fa un passo avanti nella direzione di un maggiore controllo sugli utenti-cittadini (vedi anche Evgeny Morozov, Repubblica 19.6.19). Memos ne ha parlato con due economisti: Luca Fantacci, che insegna storia economica e del pensiero economico all'Università Bocconi; e Stefano Lucarelli, politica economica all'Università di Bergamo. Chiude la puntata il messaggio di Dino Amenduni, docente di comunicazione politica all'Università di Bari.
Like&Money, la vita digitale degli utenti di Facebook stretta sempre di più nell’ecosistema di Mark Zuckerberg. Presentata ieri Libra, la criptomoneta che circolerà a partire dal 2020. Dopo i dati sulle preferenze, i gusti, le opinioni, la cassaforte di Zuckerberg custodirà anche i dati sulle nostre transazioni finanziarie. Il capitalismo delle piattaforme (come concepito dallo studioso canadese Nick Srnicek), e della sorveglianza (come teorizzato dalla sociologa statunitense Shoshana Zuboff) fa un passo avanti nella direzione di un maggiore controllo sugli utenti-cittadini (vedi anche Evgeny Morozov, Repubblica 19.6.19). Memos ne ha parlato con due economisti: Luca Fantacci, che insegna storia economica e del pensiero economico all’Università Bocconi; e Stefano Lucarelli, politica economica all’Università di Bergamo. Chiude la puntata il messaggio di Dino Amenduni, docente di comunicazione politica all’Università di Bari.
Like&Money, la vita digitale degli utenti di Facebook stretta sempre di più nell’ecosistema di Mark Zuckerberg. Presentata ieri Libra, la criptomoneta che circolerà a partire dal 2020. Dopo i dati sulle preferenze, i gusti, le opinioni, la cassaforte di Zuckerberg custodirà anche i dati sulle nostre transazioni finanziarie. Il capitalismo delle piattaforme (come concepito dallo studioso canadese Nick Srnicek), e della sorveglianza (come teorizzato dalla sociologa statunitense Shoshana Zuboff) fa un passo avanti nella direzione di un maggiore controllo sugli utenti-cittadini (vedi anche Evgeny Morozov, Repubblica 19.6.19). Memos ne ha parlato con due economisti: Luca Fantacci, che insegna storia economica e del pensiero economico all’Università Bocconi; e Stefano Lucarelli, politica economica all’Università di Bergamo. Chiude la puntata il messaggio di Dino Amenduni, docente di comunicazione politica all’Università di Bari.
Was bringt uns die allgegenwärtige Beschleunigung? Nicht nur Schlechtes, sagt Armen Avanessian in dieser Folge zu Akzelerationismus und Ethnofuturismen. Nützliche Links: Diese Bücher aus dem Merve Verlag kommen vor: - Ethnofuturismen - #Akzeleration - #Akzeleration 2 (aus diesem Buch ist auch das Zitat zu Beginn der Folge) Andere Literatur: - Das akzelerationistische Manifest von Nick Srnicek und Alex Williams - weiterführend das gemeinsame Buch der Autoren des akzelerationistischen Manifests: Inventing the Future - Benjamin Noys Malign Velocities Diese Personen werden erwähnt: - Aria Dean, die hier eine Link-Sammlung zum Thema Blaccelerationism führt - Kodwo Eshun, Theoretiker & Filmemacher -Sun Ra, Musiker - Nick Land, Vertreter des “rechten” Akzelerationismus und des Dark Enlightenment Wikis zu Themen, die angesprochen werden: - Transhumanismus - Posthumanismus - Minority Report von Philip K. Dick - Afrofuturismus Wenn euch Future Histories gefällt, dann erwägt doch bitte eine Unterstützung auf Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories? Schreibt mir unter future_histories@protonmail.com und diskutiert mit auf Twitter (#FutureHistories): https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcast
In which we are joined by Bob Neubauer to discuss Nick Srnicek's 2016 book "Platform Capitalism" If you like the show, consider supporting us on Patreon. Links: Platform Capitalism on politybooks.com General Intellect Unit on iTunes http://generalintellectunit.net Support the show on Patreon https://twitter.com/giunitpod General Intellect Unit on Facebook General Intellect Unit on archive.org
Dags att återuppfinna framtiden. En vänster utan en vision om framtiden, vart den strävar, kommer aldrig bli en politisk kraft att räkna med. Vad finns det i kapitalismen som leder till ett bortom, till en värld där allting inte längre dikteras av si många procents ökning i en kvartalsrapport. 2013 kom Alex Williams och Nick Srnicek med "Manifestet för en accelerationistisk politik", ett manifest som gav upphov till en hel genre böcker på temat postkapitalism. Manifestet utvecklades 2015 vidare i boken "Inventing the future: Postcapitalism and a world without work". I det här avsnittet av Apans anatomi tar vi oss an något som brukar gå under det lite svåruttalade begreppet vänsteraccelerationism och dess torgförares idéer om vad som borde göras. Läs mer: Alex Williams & Nick Srnicek: Det accelerationistiska manifestet https://paletten.net/journal/2014/01/28/295-2014 Alex Williams & Nick Srnicek: Inventing the future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work https://www.versobooks.com/books/2315-inventing-the-future Novara media: Inventing the future (intervju) https://soundcloud.com/novaramedia/inventing-the-future David Graeber: Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit. https://thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flying-cars-and-the-declining-rate-of-profit Antoni Negri: Reflections on the Manifesto http://www.euronomade.info/?p=1864 McKenzie Wark: #Celerity: A Critique of the Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics https://speculativeheresy.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/wark-mckenzie-celerity.pdf Nina Power: Decapitalism, Left Scarcity, and the State https://fillip.ca/content/decapitalism-left-scarcity-and-the-state
They say “don’t judge a book by its cover”. So in case you were withholding judgment: yes, this bright red book covered with left-wing slogans is, in fact, communist. Inventing The Future isn’t technically Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams’ manifesto – that would be the equally-striking-looking Accelerate Manifesto. But it’s a manifesto-ish description of their plan for achieving a postcapitalist world. S&W start with a critique of what they call “folk politics”, eg every stereotype you have of lazy left-wing activists. Protesters who march out and wave signs and then go home with no follow-up plan. Groups that avoid having any internal organization, because organization implies hierarchy and hierarchy is bad. The People’s Front of Judaea wasting all their energy warring with the Judaean People’s Front. An emphasis on spectacle and performance over results. We’ve probably all heard stories like this, but some of S&W’s are especially good, like one from an activist at a trade summit: On April 20, the first day of the demonstrations, we marched in our thousands toward the fence, behind which 34 heads of state had gathered to hammer out a hemispheric trade deal. Under a hail of catapult-launched teddy bears, activists dressed in black quickly removed the fence’s support with bolt cutters and pulled it down with grapples as onlookers cheered them on. For a brief moment, nothing stood between us and the convention centre. We scrambled atop the toppled fence, but for the most part we went no further, as if our intention all along had been simply to replace the state’s chain-link and concrete barrier with a human one of our own making. S&W comment: We see here the symbolic and ritualistic nature of the actions, combined with the thrill of having done something – but with a deep uncertainty that appears at the first break with the expected narrative. The role of dutiful protester had given these activists no indication of what to do when the barriers fell. Spectacular political confrontations like the Stop the War marches, the now familiar melees against G20 or World Trade Organization and the rousing scenes of democracy in Occupy Wall Street all give the appearance of being highly significant, as if something were genuinely at stake. Yet nothing has changed, and long-term victories were traded for a simple registration of discontent. To outside observers, it is often not even clear what the movements want, beyond expressing a generalized discontent with the world…in more recent struggles, the very idea of making demands has been questioned. The Occupy movement infamously struggled to articulate meaningful goals, worried that anything too substantial would be divisive. And a broad range of student occupations across the Western world has taken up the mantra of “no demands” under the misguided belief that demanding nothing is a radical act.
Jake and Phil discuss several accelerationist manifestos along with the video American Reflexxx, by Alli Coates and Signe Pierce. Works referenced: Nick Land, A Quick and Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism https://jacobitemag.com/2017/05/25/a-quick-and-dirty-introduction-to-accelerationism/ Joseph Lawrence, “A Fable” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/01/25/a-fable-poems-lawrence-joseph Lewis Thomas, “On Societies as Organisms” https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJM197107082850207 Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek, #accelerate Manifesto http://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/05/14/accelerate-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/ William James, “The Will to Believe” https://www.mnsu.edu/philosophy/THEWILLTOBELIEVEbyJames.pdf Ethan Kapstein, “Workers and the World Economy: Breaking the Post-War Bargain” https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/1996-05-01/workers-and-world-economy-breaking-postwar-bargain Jacob Siegel, “Fully Automated Culture War” https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/279430/fully-automated-culture-war Adam Curtis, HyperNormalization https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04b183c Friedrich Hayek, “The Use of Knowledge in Society” https://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw.html The Economist, “Slowbalisation” https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/01/24/the-steam-has-gone-out-of-globalisation Karl Bunker, “They Have All One Breath” (this is the Clarkesworld story whose title Phil couldn’t recall) http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio0119f/ Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy https://www.amazon.com/Capitalism-Socialism-Democracy-Perennial-Thought/dp/0061561614 AltWoke Manifesto http://tripleampersand.org/alt-woke-manifesto/ Aria Dean, Notes on Blacceleration https://www.e-flux.com/journal/87/169402/notes-on-blacceleration/ Toure Reed, “Between Obama and Coates” https://catalyst-journal.com/vol1/no4/between-obama-and-coates Jacob Siegel, “Send Anarchists, Guns, and Money” https://thebaffler.com/salvos/anarchists-guns-and-money-siegel Alli Coates and Signe Pierce, American Reflexxx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXn1xavynj8 Helen Andrews, “Shame Storm” https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/01/shame-storm Video Clips Hail, Caesar! https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/b1cfd96f-c637-4005-a42b-b3a108e67306 Christina Aguilera, “Accelerate” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSRSgMp5X1w 3D Printed Guns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DconsfGsXyA&t=917s Robert Pinsky reciting "Shirt" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI8DvfM0VCs
George speaks to Alex Williams about his book Inventing the Future - Postcapitalism and a World Without Work, co-authored with Nick Srnicek.
You get it, it's all about labour, we make today's episode in one day, scripted, recorded and edited - straight from the Royal Geographic Society + 70 guests… we work for work! Wth Stella Creasy, Wilson Oryema, Nick Srnicek, Nanu Al-Hamad, Beatriz Colomina, and more.
In which we talk about Accelerationism, it's bizarre history, and it's recent Left-wing manifestations. We read from three articles: "Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in" by Andy Beckett, "Terminator vs. Avatar: Notes on Accelerationism" by Mark Fisher, and "#Accelerate, Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics" by Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek. (PS: We will never miss an opportunity to dunk on Nick Land.) If you like the show, consider supporting us on Patreon. Links: Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in Terminator vs. Avatar: Notes on Accelerationism #Accelerate, Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics General Intellect Unit on iTunes http://generalintellectunit.net Support the show on Patreon https://twitter.com/giunitpod General Intellect Unit on Facebook General Intellect Unit on archive.org
It’s the difficult second episode of the difficult second season. But Dan and Tom style it out with the help of Nick Srnicek and Laurie Laybourn-Langton. The learned guests discuss the political economy of platform capitalism, the evils of advertising and algorithms and the scope for the development of new public platforms. Music by Makaih Beats.
Hello! Ready for episode two of Reasons to be Cheerful? In this edition, we'll explore the dominance of the high-tech giants like Uber, Google, Amazon and Facebook, whether we should curb their power and how with our guest Nick Srnicek. We also discuss Nick the Flying Brick, Quiz Master Ed, and terrible dancing. AND Comedian Bec Hill brings us her ideas to make the world that little bit better. Beds, school discipline for those naughty MPs, harassment, and being muted by Elon Musk. FURTHER READINGThis, written by Nick Srnicek, in The GuardianOwn your social-media dataAnd this in the Financial TimesOh... and Bec Hill & Jay Foreman's song about Elon Musk CONTACT USEmail us on - reasons@cheerfulpodcast.comLike us on FacebookFollow us on twitterLeave us a voicemail on skype - search for "Cheerful Podcast" CONTACT OUR GUESTSNick Srnicek on TwitterBec Hill on Twitter See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Speaker Julian Waters-Lynch Type Live Conversation About this conversation How should we think about the future? What are some of the most disruptive trends when it comes to work practices and organisational life? And what will this mean for work, learning and social organisation? In this podcast, Julian explores the different technologies disrupting how we work, and the effect they will have on organisational life. Conversation notes - How should we think about the future in general? - Different ways of looking at the future. Preferences, values, and biases. - ‘We’ve been here before’ versus ‘This time it’s really different’. - What are the megatrends that will shape the future of work? - What do they mean? What are the possible consequences? - What are the social implications of these trends? - How should we respond to this individually, organisationally, and institutionally? Books mentioned - Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital, by Carlota Perez - The inevitable: understanding the 12 great forces that will shape our future, by Kevin Kelly - Capital in the 21st century, by Thomas Piketty - Postcapitalism: a guide to our future, by Paul Mason - Inventing the future: post capitalism and a world of work, by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams - The time well spent movement, by Tristan Harris - Deep work: rules for focused success in a distracted world, by Cal Newport More about Julian Julian is an industry fellow in enterprise and innovation at RMIT University where he researches emerging forms of work and organising and their relationship with existing organisational and social theory. His PhD research was an ethnography of the early phase of Coworking in Melbourne. Over the past fifteen years he has found himself getting paid to play piano, translate Spanish, teach classes in primary, secondary and tertiary education institutions, mentor social entrepreneurs, run a startup accelerator, make coffee, design leadership programs, and host talks on work futures (not in that order). Julian's Linkedin: Julian Waters-Lynch Julian's Twitter: @jwaterslynch Spark the Change: sparkthechange.com.au Quote “The future is a series of disruptive trends. There are seeds in the present that we can look at and follow along an innovation and option curve that will grow to be big opportunities or issues in the future. We go back 20 years and see Steve Jobs coming back to Apple or Sergey and Larry forgoing their PhD program and starting Google … We would expect certain seeds in the present, like bitcoin and blockchain, to expand in the future.” Join Us Did you enjoy the conversation? If so, make sure to subscribe! To join us at Work Club Sydney or Melbourne for our speaker conversations, email us at events@workclubglobal.com. For more information on Work Club, visit workclubglobal.com
For this episode of The Future Is A Mixtape, Jesse & Matt have a discussion with Matt Bruenig--a lawyer, blogger, political analyst and Twitter-dynamo who's got your back when you're kettled by Roaming Hillbots and Randian Regressives. More importantly though, Matt has just started the first grassroots, people-powered think tank called The People's Policy Project (3P). Funded by small donations from $5 to $15 dollars, 3P is an attempt to actually make Think Tanks “think” again, but for the purpose of actually benefitting the 80% Americans who now own only 20% of the nation's wealth, and are increasingly living lives of quiet desperation. We will discuss Bruenig's childhood, his educational experiences and awareness-path toward political change, his history as a blogger for the think tank Demos, and his surprising success at crowd-funding 3P via Patreon. We will also talk about where Matt plans to take this new and enterprising venture in the years ahead.Mentioned In This Episode: The World of Mattness: The People's History of Matt Bruenig Matt's Official Website and Blog Page Matt's Twitter Page & Wrecking Tweets (@MattBruenig) The People's Policy Project (3P) The People's Policy Project on Twitter (@PplPolicyProj) Some Notable Essays by Matt Bruenig: Here, Here and Here Some Notable Podcasts Where Matt Appears: The Jacobin's The Dig with Danvir: “Bruenig on Why Welfare Is Great and Need More of It” The Katie Halper Show: “Matt Bruenig on Liberals Who Are Actually Conservative + Get Out!” Delete Your Account Podcast: “The Welfare State” Why Snyder Was a Good Last Name (While It Lasted): Gary Snyder as Featured in The New Yorker: “Zen Master” . . . Then “Snyder” Found Bad Luck in the 21st Century: Fallen Marine, Matthew Snyder Heckled by Westboro Church Members as Seen in the SCOTUS case Snyder v. Phelps and in The New York Times: “Justices Rule for Protesters at Military Funerals” Zack Snyder (Awful Director of More Noble Comic Book Heroes) as Explored in The Guardian: “From Suicide Squad to Batman v. Superman, Why Are DC's Films So Bad?” Rick Snyder (Awful Governor of Michigan) Being Roasted and Cross-Examined in The Washington Post: “The Flint Disaster is Rick Snyder's Fault” Do Boys and Girls Like Trucks and Buses or Barbies and Conversation? Or Both? Simon Baron-Cohen in The Guardian: “They Just Can't Help It.” Here Is an Excerpt:"How early are such sex differences in empathy evident? Certainly, by 12 months , girls make more eye contact than boys. But a new study carried out in my lab at Cambridge University shows that at birth, girls look longer at a face, and boys look longer at a suspended mechanical mobile. Furthermore, the Cambridge team found that how much eye contact children make is in part determined by a biological factor: prenatal testosterone. This has been demonstrated by measuring this hormone in amniotic fluid." Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Generation X and the Millennials: A Generation Differences Chart Sarah Stankorb in Vogue Magazine: “Xennials, or 30-Something Millennials, a Micro-Generation With a Writer to Thank” Reality Bites - Metaphor and Symbol of the Grunge Age? Or Is It, as Expressed in Jezebel, Lindy West Writes “I Rewatched Reality Bites and It's Basically a Manual for Shitheads” Jim Puzzanghera in The Los Angeles Times: “Economy Has Recovered 8.7 Million Jobs Lost in Great Recession” 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 Savior America's Low-Morale Car Industry and the Comeback King in the 1990s Is Explored in Autotrader: “A Look Back at the Ford Taurus” John Bellamy Foster in The Monthly Review: “The Financialization of Capital and the Crisis” When Contrasting Presidential Terms, 22 Million Jobs Were Created During Clinton Regime Versus Bush 2 Million During His Eight Years in Office: “Job Creation by President: Number and Percent” Sara McClanahan in The American Prospect: “The Consequences of Single Motherhood” Michael Morris in The Huffington Post: “The Earned Income Tax Credit: A Pathway Out of Poverty for Millions of Americans with Disabilities” The Podcast Radiolab Provides A Moving and Deeply Thoughtful Exploration About the History of U.S. High School Debates & What Happens When A Black Queer Student Challenges This Culture as an Institutional Force: “Debatable” The School of Life Explores John Rawls' Life and His Most Important Contribution, The Veil of Ignorance: “POLITICAL THEORY - John Rawls” Lance Weiler in The World Economic Forum: “How Storytelling Has Changed in the Digital Age” Peter Guber in Psychology Today: “The Inside Story” Excerpt: “Telling stories is not just the oldest form of entertainment, it's the highest form of consciousness. The need for narrative is embedded deep in our brains. Increasingly, success in the information age demands that we harness the hidden power of stories.” Sociology - Relight the Mechanisms That Justify Your Life Story: Social Construction of Reality and Dramaturgy Owen Jones in The Guardian: “The Iraq War Was Not A Blunder or a Mistake. It Was a Crime.” Theresa Amato in Vox: “I Ran Ralph Nader's Campaigns. A Political Revolution Is Vital — and Much Harder Than You Think.” Quinn Norton in Wired: “Beyond the Rhetoric: The Complicated, Brief Life of Occupy Boston” Occupy Riverside Still Exists on Facebook (At Least) The San Bernardino Sun: “Occupy Movements from Inland Empire Meet Together” The Dangers Found in Call-Out-Culture as Explored in Kristian Williams' Long Essay in Toward Freedom: “The Politics of Denunciation” Mark Fisher in The North Star: “Exiting the Vampire Castle” Yamiche Alcindor in The New York Times: “Black Lives Matter Coalition Makes Demands as Campaign Heats Up” “Folk Politics” as Explored by Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek in The Disorder of Things: “Inventing the Future”Classical Definition of “Prefigurative Politics” Samuel Farber in the International Socialist Review: “Reflections on ‘Prefigurative Politics” Jo Freeman's Massively Influential and Famous Essay (Among Activists): “The Tyranny of Structurelessness” Jason Stahl in Jacobin: “Do We Need a Socialist Think Tank?” Nicole Gaudiano in USA Today: “‘The Sanders Institute:' Jane Sanders Launches New Think Tank” Alex Shephard and Clio Chang in The New Republic: “How Neera Tanden Works: Emails released by WikiLeaks reveal the maneuverings of a liberal think-tank president and member of Hillary Clinton's inner circle.” The Spoils System Dino Grandoni in The Atlantic: “Obama Likes the Spoils System as Much as Any President” TINA: There Is No Alternative Adam Curtis' Blog Post About the Origins of the First Think Tank in Britain: “The Curse of Tina” An Excerpt from His Survey About The International Policy Network: “Think Tanks surround politics today and are the very things that are supposed to generate new ideas. But if you go back and look at how they rose up - at who invented them and why - you discover they are not quite what they seem. That in reality they may have nothing to do with genuinely developing new ideas, but have become a branch of the PR industry whose aim is to do the very opposite - to endlessly prop up and reinforce today's accepted political wisdom. So successful have they been in this task that many Think Tanks have actually become serious obstacles to really thinking about new and inspiring visions of how to change society for the better.” Tom Liacas in Mashable: “How Online Activist Groups Are Raising Millions to Keep Corporations in Line” Cesar Chavez's United Food Workers (UFW) Was Successfully Committed and Focused Because It Relied Upon A Large, Balanced Ring of Small-to-Medium Donations; Now as Recorded in Miriam Powell's Article in The Los Angeles Times, “Farmerworkers Reap Little as Union Strays From Its Roots” A History of the National Labor Review Board (NLRB) J.K Trotter in Gawker: “Liberal Think Tank Fires Blogger for Rude Tweets”Michelle Goldberg in Slate Magazine: “Is Matt Bruenig a Populist Martyr?” Sam Levine in The Huffington Post: “Pro-Bernie Blogger Raises $25,000 After Getting Fired For Attacking Clinton Backers” “Scumbag Neera [Tanden]” Was a Play and Meme Allusion on “Scumbag Steve” Deadline Hollywood: “Reza Aslan Out At CNN On Heels Of Trump ‘Piece of Sh*t' Tweet” Matthew's Local Union from UC-AFT (University of California & American Federation of Teachers): 1966! The National Labor Review Board's Position on Social Media Matt Bruenig's GoFundMe Account After Demos Fired Him After Bruenig Raised More Than He Needed, He Asked Supporter to Donate to Eric Harwood's GoFundMe Page. You Can Read About the Story of Harwood in One of Bruenig's Blog Posts Here. Terry Gilliam's Famous Sendup to 1984, Kafka & Bureaucracy with Brazil George Zimmerman ($100,000!): Don't Look Like Him, Matt! “George Zimmerman Auctioning Off Gun He Used to Kill Trayvon Martin” The People's Policy Project (3P): Here Are Some Supporting Writers That Have Contributed to the Think Tank Thus Far . . . Peter Gowan and Mio Tastas Viktorsson's “Tackling Wealth Inequality Like A Swede” Peter Gowan's “Models For Worker Codetermination In Europe” Michelle Styczynski's “What Does The Stock Market Do For Workers' Wages? Nothing” Matthijs Krul's “Does The Dutch Healthcare System Show The Way?” The “About” Page for 3P & an Excerpt:“Unlike most think tanks, which are financed by large corporations and foundations, 3P is funded by small donors pledging $5 to $15 per month on the Patreon platform. This unique funding source enables us to publish policy insights untainted by the compromises typically demanded by monied interests. We are, as the name suggests, the People's Policy Project, not Walmart's Policy Project and not the Gates Foundation's Policy Project. The work of 3P aims to fill the holes left by the current think tank landscape with a special focus on socialist and social democratic economic ideas.” Gus Bagakis in Truthout: “Faith in Charity Is Hopeless: Philanthrocapitalism Has Failed Us” Instead of Philanthrocapitalism How About Givedirectly.org? As One Princeton Study Details, Direct Donations Are Far More Effective than NGOs Matt Bruenig's Policyshop (Blog) at Demos: “How Much Money Would It Take to Eliminate U.S. Poverty?” Alex Emmons in The Intercept: “The Senate's Military Spending Increase Alone Is Enough to Make Public College Free”CNBC News: “A $1,000 Per Month Cash Handout Would Grow the Economy by $2.5 Trillion, New Study Says” Reading the Fine Print, From the Roosevelt Institute, Which Is Glorious to Behold: “Modeling the Macroeconomic Effects of a Universal Basic Income” Matt Bruenig in Medium: “The UBI already exists for the 1%” A Counterattack from Tim Worstall in Forbes Magazine: “Matt Bruenig Says The 1% Already Gets A Universal Basic Income - So Why Not One For All?” Hillary Clinton invented UBI? Did She? Or Is This Matt Snyder's Fib? Dylan Matthews in Vox: “Hillary Clinton Almost Ran for President on a Universal Basic Income” Matt Bruenig's Vision For Changing Society with a Better Understanding of Transforming the Use of Capital: 1: Enlarge Our Welfare System to Something Akin to the Nordic System 2: Expand Labor/Union Rates Via Legal Protections 3: Develop Capital Social Fund Dividends as Seen in Norway Jesse Herring's Suggestion for 7-Point Platform, “The Slingshot Seven”: Healthcare for All Renewable Energy Plan Toward 100% Usage Universal Basic Income (UBI) for All Demilitarization: Both Domestic & Foreign Tuition-Free Education Getting Money Out of Politics $15-Hour Minimum Wage (Adjusted to Inflation) David Levinthal on the Koch Brothers Funding of Colleges in The Atlantic: “Spreading the Free-Market Gospel” Draft Bernie for a People's Party Matt Bruenig in the People's Policy Project: “The Contents Of The New Medicare-For-All Bill” Catherine Rampell's Inflammatory Op-Ed in The Washington Post: “Sanderscare Is All Cheap Politics and Magic Math” Michael Sainato in The Observer: “Recall Campaign for California Democrat Takes Big Step Forward” Physicians for a National Healthcare System: (PNHP): “California Speaker Anthony Rendon Calls for Hearings on Universal Health Care” Elana Schor in Politico: “Chris Murphy's Stealthy Single-Payer Pitch” Ryan Skolnick in Medium: “Rendon is Wrong: SB 562 is Not ‘Woefully Incomplete'” Frantz Pierre's Los Angeles - Basic Income Project on Indiegogo On Patreon: “Scott Santens Is Creating Support for Unconditional Basic Income” The Guardian: “What Makes Norway Is the World's Happiest Country” (2017) CNN's Travel: The Top-Ten Rankings for the Happiest Places on Earth for 2017 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, 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
Politolog Nick Srnicek na sebe poprvé výrazně upozornil v roce 2013, když spolu s kolegou Alexem Williamsem publikovali Akceleracionistický manifest. V něm nastínili vizi budoucnosti, kde mají lidé díky nepodmíněnému základnímu přijmu spoustu volného času a práci za ně dělají roboti. Srnicek od té doby patří k nejvlivnějším levicovým akademikům. „Musíme se ptát: naplnil kapitalismus svoji historickou úlohu? Já myslím, že bychom se měli poohlížet po něčem dalším,“ poodhaluje svoji vizi budoucnosti, kdy se podle jeho slov musí zásadně změnit náš přístup k práci. Měli bychom pracovat méně a mít víc času na vlastní život.
Silvio Lorusso According to Guy Standing, "the global precariat is not yet a class in the Marxian sense, being internally divided and only united in fears and insecurities. But it is a class in the making, approaching a consciousness of common vulnerability". Similarly, the entreprecariat is a category under construction. And, as such, it can and should be oriented. The entreprecariat can reclaim pleasure and foster solidarity. It can rediscover empathy and protect conviviality. It can reappropriate time and differentiate it. It can pivot identity out of career and reduce the burden of work ethic. It can and should enlarge our short intention spans to build a common understanding of what stability might mean today. How to do so? The short-term objective is externalization: entreprecarity is first and foremost a worldview, an interpretation of reality that orients our behaviors. This worldview, that is at once embedded in the technological apparatus and incorporated by individuals, should be externalized. Precarity is hidden and disguised. It's not a label people use to define themselves. While in the Netherlands "the precariat" is mostly an academic term, in Italy the term is constantly used by news media with a not-so-veiled negative emphasis. You don't hear people say "I'm a proud member of the precariat". In order to tackle precarity, openness and social cohesion are necessary. The term "precariat" doesn't work because it doesn't produce a gratifying sense of belonging. We need 'ironic attachment' to recombine our collective understanding of precarious conditions. Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams maintain that "changing the cultural consensus about the work ethic will mean taking actions at an everyday level, translating these medium-term goals into slogans, memes and chants." Mocking the daily grinds of self-entrepreneurship and bitingly diagnosing the miseries of precarity, the entreprecariat must produce its own slogan, memes and chants.
Based upon interviews with working artists in all stages of their careers, Precariat Content uses documentary and experiments in sound art to discuss the economic, cultural, and political conditions that produce and plague the career artist and her work. This episode includes two collage essays that respectively contextualize and preview the work to come. The following voices speak: Essay 1: Precarious Workers Brigade. Jeremy Bailey. Eleanor Heartney. David Graeber. Brian Eno. Suhail Malik. Adam Curtis. John Berger. Tim Heidecker. Adam Phillips. Slavoj Žižek. Nick Srnicek. David Harvey. Mark Blyth. Nancy Pelos. Ruth Catlow. Donna Harraway. bell hooks. Essay 2: Victoria Cheong. Star Amerasu. Jordan Tannahill. Jacob Wren. Adrienne Crossman. Jon Pham McCurley. Amy Lam. Alex Mackenzie. Jonathan Carroll. Cat Bluemke LINKS Mayworks: http://www.mayworks.ca/ Alan Lomax: http://research.culturalequity.org/home-audio.jsp R. Murray Schafer: https://www.sfu.ca/~truax/wsp.html Photo: Cat Bluemke
Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams, authors of Inventing the Future, on getting beyond folk politics to a world where robots work more and people (supported by a universal basic income) work less.
The Challenge of Climate Change: What Can and Can’t Be Fixed? A Roundtable discussion and reception launching the MSc in Global Environmental Politics and Policy, organised by the Birkbeck Population, Environment and Resources Group. Free event open to all: Book your place As we approach the 25th anniversary of the Rio Earth Summit in 2017, climate change continues to pose a formidable global socio-economic, political and environmental challenge. The latest Conference of Participants in Paris culminated with a multilateral commitment to keep global temperature rise this century below 2 degrees Celsius, promising an agreement with a ‘long-term vision’ that was also to act as an ‘engine of safe growth’. In this panel, we consider whether these aspirations to reconcile economic growth with control over global warming are realistic, feasible or even desirable. What are the prospects of enforcing these objectives? What kind of policies and political mobilisations might help to secure them? Can and does technology help in addressing climate change? And what are the implications of all this for an increasingly ‘crowded, complex and coastal’ planet? Four specialists on these subjects will discuss these and other related questions in an accessible and conversational format. Panelists: Aideen Foley, Lecturer in Physical and Environmental Geography Birkbeck College. Diane Horn, Reader in Coastal Geomorphology Birkbeck College. Eric Kaufmann, Professor of Politics, Birkbeck College. Nick Srnicek, co-author of Inventing the Future. Chair: Alex Colás, Reader in International Relations, Birkbeck College
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.
In this episode, we have part 2 of the Derick Varn interview, where we discuss the history and theories of Cultural Marxism in great detail. This bumper episode, also veers off into a long discussion on Black Lives Matter, how we need more than just culture wars - how’s about some class wars! Class wars where we call the shots, for a change. Speaking of all this, we start the conversation with myself and Derick talking about Accelerationism and previous guest Nick Srnicek’s new book - ‘Reinventing The Future’. This is a long one people, as it was a pretty unstructured conversation, and I was suffering from a flu at the time of recording. My powers of conversation dipped in the middle, so I let Derick do his thing, but I rally back with some counter-punches of my own, in the later rounds. You can find Derick’s blog here: https://symptomaticcommentary.wordpress.com/ You can find Derick’s and Amogh’s Podcast here: http://sympthomaticredness.libsyn.com/ The music on this episode was: 'The Order of the Pharaonic Jesters' by Sun Ra and his Arkestra 'Holy Moly' by Matthew E. White
Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams, authors of Inventing the Future, join Kirsty to discuss the possibility of a future without work. NEF on Twitter: www.twitter.com/nef Weekly Economics Podcast on Twitter: www.twitter.com/weeklyeconpod Kirsty Styles on Twitter: www.twitter.com/kirstystyles1 Nick Srnicek on Twitter: www.twitter.com/n_srnck Alex Williams on Twitter: www.twitter.com/lemonbloodycola Produced by James Shield. Programme editor for NEF: Huw Jordan. Help the show by leaving a review: www.getpodcast.reviews/id/970353148 Brought to you by the New Economics Foundation – the independent think tank and charity campaigning for a fairer, sustainable economy. Find out more at www.neweconomics.org. Music by Quiet Music for Tiny Robots, Podington Bear and David Hilowitz.
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
Published by Verso, 'Inventing the Future: Folk Politics and the Left' is a bold new manifesto for life after capitalism which, following the wave of left-populism across the continent, offers concrete alternatives to the cycle of debt and austerity and the drudgeries of work. From Jeremy Corbyn’s landmark victory in the Labour leadership election to the rise of Podemos in Spain and Syriza in Greece, the European left is once more resurgent. Interrogating how ideas that long seemed marginalised and discredited have recently captured the imaginations of millions, authors Williams and Srnicek ask how these ideas might be used to create a more sustainable and equitable world. Demanding a high-tech economy capable of advancing living standards, liberating us from work and developing technologies which expand our freedom, Williams and Srnicek join us to present their new blueprint for a new world—one of full automation, unconditional universal basic income, media reform, full unemployment and freedom from work. Williams and Srnicek talk to Emma Dowling, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Middlesex University.
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