Inventing the future : postcapitalism and a world without work / by Nick Srnicek.
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TextPublisher: London : Verso, 2016Edition: Revised and updated editionDescription: 256 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781784786229 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Common good | Technology -- Social aspects -- Forecasting | CapitalismDDC classification: 320'.011 Summary: Despite the profound crisis of capitalism and the mass mobilizations of people around the world in response, there has been no successful contestation of neoliberalism's hegemony. 'Inventing the Future' argues for a novel set of alternatives for the future - alternatives which seek to rekindle a popular modernity. Against the confused understanding of the high-tech and neoliberal world by both the right and the left, this book claims that the emancipatory and future-oriented possibilities of our society can be reclaimed.
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Despite the profound crisis of capitalism and the mass mobilizations of people around the world in response, there has been no successful contestation of neoliberalism's hegemony. 'Inventing the Future' argues for a novel set of alternatives for the future - alternatives which seek to rekindle a popular modernity. Against the confused understanding of the high-tech and neoliberal world by both the right and the left, this book claims that the emancipatory and future-oriented possibilities of our society can be reclaimed.
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