S01E16
Richard Barbrook on Imaginary Futures
What could desirable imaginary futures look like? Richard Barbrook brings up some very interesting ideas on this question and explores past and present futures in order to work towards different worlds to come.
Info & material for further reading:
- Richard on Monoskop
https://monoskop.org/Richard_Barbrook - Homepage "Imaginary Futures"
http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/ - Homepage "Class Wargames"
https://www.classwargames.net/?tag=richard-barbrook - Essay "The Californian Ideology" by Richard Barbrook & Andy Cameron
http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/2007/04/17/the-californian-ideology-2/ - Essay "Cyber Communism" by Richard Barbrook
http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/2007/04/17/cyber-communism-how-the-americans-are-superseding-capitalism-in-cyberspace/ - Homepage Digital Liberties cooperative
https://digitalliberties.org.uk/ - Homepage "Games for The Many" (who made e.g. CorbynRun)
http://gamesforthemany.org/ - Richard on Twitter
https://twitter.com/richardbarbrook?lang=de - Homepage Technopolitics Research Group
http://www.technopolitics.info/ - Article on the "Preston Model" (municipal socialism)
https://www.academia.edu/39696129/The_Preston_Model_and_the_modern_politics_of_municipal_socialism?email_work_card=view-paper - Wiki on "Austro Marxism"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austromarxism - Report "Alternative Models of Ownership"
https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Alternative-Models-of-Ownership.pdf - Homepage "The World Transformed" Festival
https://theworldtransformed.org/ - "Grundrisse" by Karl Marx
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/grundrisse.pdf - Wiki about Robert Owen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Owen - Archive of the American Society for Cybernetics
http://asc-cybernetics.org/online-library/ - Homepage "Virtual Futures"
http://www.virtualfutures.co.uk/ - Book "Civilization at the Crossroads" by Radovan Richta
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315177663 - Book "The People’s Republic of Walmart" by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2822-the-people-s-republic-of-walmart - Book "Cybernetic Revolutionaries" by Eden Medina
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-revolutionaries - Stafford Beer on Monoskop (with short video on Project Cybersyn)
https://monoskop.org/Stafford_Beer - Wiki "Project Cybersyn" (socialist cybernetics in Chile)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn
Book "Fully Automated Luxury Communism"by Aaron Bastani
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2757-fully-automated-luxury-communism - Homepage Novara Media (of which Aaron Bastani is a co-founder)
https://novaramedia.com/ - Essay "Digital Socialism" by Evgeny Morozov
https://newleftreview.org/issues/II116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialism - Campaign for a 4-Day-Week
https://www.4dayweek.co.uk/ - German campaign for a 4-Day-Week
https://www.4tagewoche.de/ - Exhibition "Red Vienna" at the MUSA in Vienna
https://www.wienmuseum.at/en/exhibitions/upcoming/detail/das-rote-wien-1919-1934.html - Essay "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren" (1930) by John Maynard Keynes
https://assets.aspeninstitute.org/content/uploads/files/content/upload/Intro_and_Section_I.pdf - Wiki Charles Fourier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fourier - Wiki ARPANET
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET - Wiki RAND Corporation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND_Corporation - Wiki "Austrian School of Economics"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_School - Wiki Friedrich Hayek
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek - Wiki "Road to Serfdom" by Hayek
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Serfdom