S02E27
Nick Dyer-Witheford on Biocommunism

Nick Dyer-Witheford on biocommunism, "a communism emerging from the catastrophes capital now inflicts throughout the bios, the realm of life itself".

 

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Shownotes

Nick Dyer-Witheford (University of Western Ontario):

https://www.fims.uwo.ca/people/profiles/nick_dyer-witheford.html

Dyer-Witheford, Nick. 2022. Biocommie: Power and Catastrophe.:

https://projectpppr.org/populisms/biocommie-power-and-catastrophe

PPPR - Platforms, Populisms, Pandemics and Riots (Research Project):

https://projectpppr.org/

Dyer-Witheford, Nick. 2013. Red plenty platforms. Culture Machine 14 (PDF).:

http://svr91.edns1.com/~culturem/index.php/cm/article/view/511/526

Dyer-Witheford, Nick. 2007. Commonism. Turbulence 1:

http://www.turbulence.org.uk/turbulence-1/commonism/index.html

Dyer-Witheford, Nick. 1999. Cyber-Marx: Cycles and circuits of struggle in high-technology capitalism. University of Illinois Press.:

https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p067952

Dyer-Witheford, Nick. 2015. Cyber-proletariat: Global labour in the digital vortex. London: Pluto Press. (PDF available):

http://digamo.free.fr/dyerwith.pdf

Dyer-Witheford, Nick, Atle Mikkola Kjøsen, and James Steinhoff. 2019. Inhuman power. Artificial intelligence and the future of capitalism. London: Pluto Press.:

https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745338606/inhuman-power/

 

Further Shownotes

Bastani, Aaron. 2019. Fully Automated Luxury Communism. London: Verso.:

https://www.versobooks.com/books/3156-fully-automated-luxury-communism

Helen Hester:

https://www.uwl.ac.uk/staff/helen-hester

Laboria Cuboniks Collective. 2018. The Xenofeminist Manifesto: A Politics for Alienation. London: Verso:

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2887-the-xenofeminist-manifesto

Srnicek, Nick und Alex Williams. 2016. Inventing the Future. London: Verso:

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2315-inventing-the-future

Tooze, Adam. 2021. Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World Economy. New York: Viking.:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/669575/shutdown-by-adam-tooze/

The New Age of Catastrophe - Alex Callinicos's Farewell Lecture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-DTifOGfM4

Negri, Antonio. 2005. Crisis of the Crisis State. Libcom:

https://libcom.org/library/crisis-state-antonio-negri

Terranova, Tiziana. 2009. Another Life: The Nature of Political Economy in Foucault’s Genealogy of Biopolitics., Theory, Culture & Society, 26(6), 234–65.:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0263276409352193

Fraser, Nancy. 2016. Contradictions of Capital and Care. New Left Review 100, 99-117.:

https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii100/articles/nancy-fraser-contradictions-of-capital-and-care

Klein, Naomi. 2008. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. New York: Picador.:

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/55595/the-shock-doctrine-by-naomi-klein/9780141024530

Buck, Holly Jean. 2021. Ending fossil fuels: Why net zero is not enough. Verso.:

https://www.versobooks.com/books/3879-ending-fossil-fuels

Cox, Stan. 2013. Any way you slice it: the past, present, and future of rationing. The New Press.:

https://thenewpress.com/books/any-way-you-slice-it

Benanav, Aaron. 2020. Automation and the Future of Work. London: Verso.:

https://www.versobooks.com/books/4029-automation-and-the-future-of-work

Jameson, Fredric. 2016. An American utopia. Dual Power and the Universal Army. London: Verso, 1-96.:

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2118-an-american-utopia

Doctorow, Cory. 2020. Full Employment. Locus Magazine:

https://locusmag.com/2020/07/cory-doctorow-full-employment/

Out of the Woods. 2018. The Uses of Disaster. Commune Magazine: https://communemag.com/the-uses-of-disaster/ 

Out of the Woods. 2020. Hope Against Hope: Writings on Ecological Crisis. New York: Common Notions.:

https://libcom.org/article/hope-against-hope-out-woods-book-coming-soon

Foucault, Michel, & Michel Senellart (transl.). 2008. The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-79. Palgrave Macmillan:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312203412/thebirthofbiopolitics

[German] Sutterlütti, Simon & Meretz, Stefan. 2018. Kapitalismus aufheben. Hamburg: VSA Verlag. (PDF verfügbar):

https://www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rls_uploads/pdfs/sonst_publikationen/VSA_Sutterluetti_Meretz.pdf

Malm, Andreas. 2020. Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century. London: Verso.:

https://www.versobooks.com/books/3704-corona-climate-chronic-emergency

Nunes, Rodrigo. 2021. Neither vertical nor horizontal: A theory of political organization. London: Verso.:

https://www.versobooks.com/books/3810-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal

Excerpt from Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization (Verso 2021):

https://projectpppr.org/platforms/the-traumas-of-organization

Interview by Nick Dyer-Witheford with Rodrigo Nunes:

https://projectpppr.org/platforms/neither-vertical-nor-horizontal-interview-with-rodrigo-nunes

Diane DiPrima:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_DiPrima 

Regarding scarcity in liberalism see the Future Histories Episode with Ute Tellman as well as:

Tellmann, Ute. 2017. Life and money: The genealogy of the liberal economy and the displacement of politics. Columbia University Press.:

http://cup.columbia.edu/book/life-and-money/9780231182263

 

Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics

S02E10 | Aaron Benanav on Associational Socialism and Democratic Planning:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e10-aaron-benanav-on-associational-socialism-and-democratic-planning/

[German] S01E47 | Stefan Meretz zu Commonismus:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e47-stefan-meretz-zu-commonismus/

S01E31 | 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/

 

(German) Episoden zum Thema alternative Regierungskünste

S02E25 | Bini Adamczak zu Beziehungsweisen:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e25-bini-adamczak-zu-beziehungsweisen/

S02E24 | Gabriel Kuhn zu anarchistischer Regierungskunst:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e24-gabriel-kuhn-zu-anarchistischer-regierungskunst/

S02E08 | Thomas Biebricher zu neoliberaler Regierungskunst:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e08-thomas-biebricher-zu-neoliberaler-regierungskunst/

S02E06 | Alexander Kluge zu Zukünften der Kooperation:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e06-alexander-kluge-zu-zukuenften-der-kooperation/

S02E03 | Ute Tellmann zu Ökonomie als Kultur:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e03-ute-tellmann-zu-oekonomie-als-kultur/

S01E53 | Kalle Kunkel zu Herrschaftstechnologien in der Krise:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e53-kalle-kunkel-zu-herrschaftstechnologien-in-der-krise/

S01E25 | Joseph Vogl zur Krise des Regierens:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e25-joseph-vogl-zur-krise-des-regierens/

S01E11 | Frieder Vogelmann zu alternativen Regierungskünsten:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e11-frieder-vogelmann-zu-alternativen-regierungskuensten/

 

Find a collection of Future Histories episodes related to democratic economic planning here:

https://www.listennotes.com/playlists/zeitgen%C3%B6ssische-planwirtschaft-in-future-S9jTkXfb-gp/episodes/

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#FutureHistories, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #Podcast, #JanGroos, #Interview, #Biocommunism, #Dyer-Witheford, #Commonism, #Platforms, #Biocommie, #HelenHester, #NickSrnicek, #AlexWilliams, #Accelerationism, #Ecosocialism, #Rationing, #PowerandCatastrophe, #Capitalism, #AaronBenanav, #Postcapitalism, #Polycrisis, #EconomicPlanning, #Crisis, #Capital, #Rationing, #Hegemony, #Governmentality, #Foucault, #RadicalTransformation, #SocialTransformation, #Democracy, #Socialism, #DesasterCapitalism, #PoliticalEconomy, #Scarcity, #Communism

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