Four Futures: Life After Capitalism (Jacobin)

Frase, Peter

ISBN 10: 1781688133 / ISBN 13: 9781781688137

Published by Verso, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Four Futures: Life After Capitalism (Jacobin)
• Publisher: Verso
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1781688133
• ISBN 13: 9781781688137
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

An “invigorating” vision of four post-capitalist futures that consider the intersections of technology, the environment, and modern politics (The Guardian)

Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down. In Four Futures, Frase imagines how this post-capitalist world might look, deploying the tools of both social science and speculative fiction to explore what communism, rentism, socialism and exterminism might actually entail.

Could the current rise of real-life robocops usher in a world that resembles Ender’s Game? And sure, communism will bring an end to material scarcities and inequalities of wealth—but there’s no guarantee that social hierarchies, governed by an economy of “likes,” wouldn’t rise to take their place. A whirlwind tour through science fiction, social theory and the new technologies already shaping our lives, Four Futures is a balance sheet of the socialisms we may reach if a resurgent Left is successful, and the barbarisms we may be consigned to if those movements fail.

About the Author

Peter Frase is an editor at Jacobin magazine, a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center, and has written for In These Times and Al Jazeera. He lives in New York City.