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Inventing the future : postcapitalism and a world without work /

By: Srnicek, Nick [author.].
Contributor(s): Williams, Alex, 1981- [author.].
Publisher: London : Verso, 2016Edition: Revised and updated edition.Description: 263 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781784786229; 9781784786229:; 1784786225.Subject(s): Radicalism | Progress | Populism | Common good | Employment forecasting | Technology -- Social aspects -- Forecasting | Capitalism | Work | Technological unemployment | Basic income | NeoliberalismDDC classification: 331.137042 SRN
Contents:
Our political common sense: introducing folk politics -- Why aren't we winning? A critique of today's left -- Why are they winning? The making of neoliberal hegemony -- Left modernity -- The future isn't working -- Post-work imaginaries -- A new common sense -- Building power -- Conclusion -- Afterword: reinventing the future.
Summary: Despite the profound crisis of capitalism and the mass mobilisations of people around the world in response, there has been no successful contestation of neoliberalism's hegemony. 'Inventing the Future' argues for a novel set of alternatives for the future - alternatives which seek to rekindle a popular modernity. Against the confused understanding of the high-tech and neoliberal world by both the right and the left, this book claims that the emancipatory and future-oriented possibilities of our society can be reclaimed.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-257) and index.

Our political common sense: introducing folk politics -- Why aren't we winning? A critique of today's left -- Why are they winning? The making of neoliberal hegemony -- Left modernity -- The future isn't working -- Post-work imaginaries -- A new common sense -- Building power -- Conclusion -- Afterword: reinventing the future.

Despite the profound crisis of capitalism and the mass mobilisations of people around the world in response, there has been no successful contestation of neoliberalism's hegemony. 'Inventing the Future' argues for a novel set of alternatives for the future - alternatives which seek to rekindle a popular modernity. Against the confused understanding of the high-tech and neoliberal world by both the right and the left, this book claims that the emancipatory and future-oriented possibilities of our society can be reclaimed.

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