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When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface he is forced to …
In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and our value is determined by …
Makes me think what is the fundamental difference between work and play. Responsibility? Necessity?
In his first book, leading political commentator Aaron Bastani conjures a new politics: a vision …
The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play.
Arthur C. Clarke
— Fully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani (Page 50)
In his first book, leading political commentator Aaron Bastani conjures a new politics: a vision …
As we shall see, information is the basis of value under modern capitalism - far more than we think. And yet technologies under that same economic system now paradoxically tend towards destroying the scarcity of information, and therefore its value. [...] But by the middle of this century it will be increasingly clear that this also extends to labour, energy and resources too.
— Fully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani (Page 49)
In his first book, leading political commentator Aaron Bastani conjures a new politics: a vision …
Because capitalist realism has no offer of a better future - especially so over the course of the last decade - its default logic is one of anti-utopianism. Flat wages, falling home ownership and a warming planet might be bad, granted, but at least we have iPhones. And, yes, you may not be able to access the things your parents took for granted, like affordable homes or free higher education, but you should still be grateful - at least it's not the sixteenth century.
— Fully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani (Page 18)
In his first book, leading political commentator Aaron Bastani conjures a new politics: a vision of a world of unimaginable …
