Sergio reviewed Postcapitalist Futures by Adam Fishwick
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3 stars
A fascinating and insightful book on what the end(ing(s)) of capitalism look like from our current state and from the perspective of experts and scholars. As someone who's definitely not equipped to understand the totality of what this series of essays covers, I found some chapters more engaging and easier to grasp than others; I was particularly fond of chapter 2 on barbarism and capitalism, chapter 3 on feminist perspectives on post-capitalist futures, chapter 9 on movements generated from exclusion and chapter 10 which is a fascinating writeup on the language used to describe the spaces of opportunity from which liberative movements can emerge and how they are co-opted and repressed through the lens of recent Ecuadorian history. As someone in the technology area I was interested in chapter's 6 concept of FALC ("Fully Automated Luxury Communism") for which it seemed to advocate but I didn't feel like it made …
A fascinating and insightful book on what the end(ing(s)) of capitalism look like from our current state and from the perspective of experts and scholars. As someone who's definitely not equipped to understand the totality of what this series of essays covers, I found some chapters more engaging and easier to grasp than others; I was particularly fond of chapter 2 on barbarism and capitalism, chapter 3 on feminist perspectives on post-capitalist futures, chapter 9 on movements generated from exclusion and chapter 10 which is a fascinating writeup on the language used to describe the spaces of opportunity from which liberative movements can emerge and how they are co-opted and repressed through the lens of recent Ecuadorian history. As someone in the technology area I was interested in chapter's 6 concept of FALC ("Fully Automated Luxury Communism") for which it seemed to advocate but I didn't feel like it made a complete argument and I didn't come away from it with as much of an understanding as I would have liked.