A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse – David Graeber
Frase argues that we are facing a paradoxical crisis of both scarcity (ecological catastrophe) and abundance (AI & automation) at the very same time. Under these twin pressures, he argues, capitalism is going to end. The question is what will replace it. On intersecting axes of scarcity/ abundance and hierarchy/equality, he maps out a 2 × 2 gri
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What if we treat people, from the beginning, as imaginative, intelligent, playful creatures who deserve to be understood as such? What if, instead of telling a story about how our species fell from some idyllic state of equality, we ask how we came to be trapped in such tight conceptual shackles that we can no longer even imagine the possibility of
... See moreDavid Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Ours is a finite world marked by constraints. To a large extent, these constraints define the five crises set to radically shape the course of the coming century. Together, these crises – encompassing climate change, resource scarcity, ever-larger surplus populations, ageing and technological unemployment as a result of automation – are set to unde
... See moreAaron Bastani • Fully Automated Luxury Communism
a disaster is a lot like a revolution when it comes to disruption and improvisation, to new roles and an unnerving or exhilarating sense that now anything is possible.