[P2P-F] [NetworkedLabour] Fwd: [historicalmaterialism] NEW FROM VERSO: INVENTING THE FUTURE BY NICK SRNICEK AND ALEX WILLIAMS

Thu Oct 29 04:23:23 CET 2015

you can, perhaps with a note asking people to support the authors if they
can,

Michel

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 5:28 PM, peter waterman <peterwaterman1936 at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Just bought the e-book version and note that it is DRM-free. Does this
> mean I can send it to all my friends?
>
> P
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> From: peter waterman <peterwaterman1936 at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:25 AM
> Subject: Fwd: [historicalmaterialism] NEW FROM VERSO: INVENTING THE FUTURE
> BY NICK SRNICEK AND ALEX WILLIAMS
> To: Danny <huasquero at mac.com>, Dan Gallin <gli at iprolink.ch>, Asbjørn Wahl
> <Asbjorn.Wahl at velferdsstaten.no>
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> Subject: [historicalmaterialism] NEW FROM VERSO: INVENTING THE FUTURE BY
> NICK SRNICEK AND ALEX WILLIAMS
> To: historicalmaterialism at yahoogroups.com
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> OUT NOW:
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> INVENTING THE FUTURE
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> By Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams
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> A major new manifesto for a high-tech future free from work
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> ‘A powerful book: it not only shows us how the postcapitalist world of
> rapidly improving technology could make us free, but it also shows us how
> we can organise to get there. This is a must-read.’ PAUL MASON, author of
> Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
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> “Most important book of 2015” Aaron Bastani, co-founder of Novara Media
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> http://www.versobooks.com/books/1989-inventing-the-future
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> LONDON EVENT: Inventing the Future: Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams in
> conversation with Emma Dowling
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> Tuesday 3rd November 2015 7pm - 8pm, at Foyles Charing Cross Road
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> http://www.foyles.co.uk/Public/Events/Detail.aspx?eventId=2674
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> Neoliberalism isn’t working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty
> and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in
> stagnant political practices that offer no respite.
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> Inventing the Future is a bold new manifest0 for life after capitalism.
> Against the confused understanding of our high-tech world by both the right
> and the left, this book claims that the emancipatory and future-oriented
> possibilities of our society can be reclaimed. Instead of running from a
> complex future, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams demand a postcapitalist
> economy capable of advancing standards, liberating humanity from work and
> developing technologies that expand our freedoms.
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> NICK SRNICEK is the author of Postcapitalist Technologies (Polity,
> forthcoming) and the co-editor of The Speculative Turn (Re.press, 2011 with
> Levi Bryant and Graham Harman).
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> ALEX WILLIAMS is a PhD student at the University of East London working on
> a thesis entitled Complexity & Hegemony.
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> “Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams' project dares to propose a different way
> of thinking and acting. Given the fizzling of the Occupy moment, a radical
> rethinking of the anarchic approach is badly needed but just not happening.
> This book could do a lot of work in getting that rethink going.” DOUG
> HENWOOD author of Wall Street
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> “Srnicek and Williams demonstrate how a sustainable economic future is
> less a question of means than of imagination. The postcapitalist world they
> envision is utterly attainable, if we can remember that we have been
> inventing the economy all along.” DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF, author of Present
> Shock: When Everything Happens Now
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> “Inventing the Future is exactly what we need right now. With immense
> patience and care, it sets out a clear and compelling vision of a
> postcapitalist society. Equally importantly, it lays out a plausible
> programme which can take us from 24/7 capitalist immiseration to a world
> free of work.” MARK FISHER, author of Capitalist Realism: Is There No
> Alternative?
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> “A conceptual launch pad for a new socialist imagination…”  Mike Davis,
> author of Planet of Slums
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> PAPERBACK: SEPTEMBER 2015 / 256 pages / ISBN 9781784780968 / $19.95 /
> £12.99 / $23.95 (CAN)
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> AVAILABLE AS AN E-BOOK FROM 13TH OCTOBER 2015
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> INVENTING THE FUTURE is 30% off at the moment:
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> http://www.versobooks.com/books/1989-inventing-the-future
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