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???? some wheatpasted posters spotted in South Philly
Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
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An exploration of the utopias and dystopias that could develop from present society…
Book signing and discussion with Peter Frase, author of Four Futures: Life After Capitalism.
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 and extermininsm might actually entail.
Could the current rise of the 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 are 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.
[October 19 from 7pm to 9pm at Wooden Shoe Books 704 South St]
The ZAD: an anti-capitalist occupation in France
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The ZAD is a large scale land occupation near Notre-Dame-des-Landes, France. It was squatted in 2009 at the invitation of local citizen and farming associations, who had been resisting the imposition of an airport, highway, high speed train, and tram line since 1972. Since then, the anti-airport movement has depassed traditional limitations of “issue-based struggles” with a strong critique of capitalist and hierarchical systems (including and especially the State), and links and shared projects with a wide diversity of people, to the point where the divisions between squatter, farmer, punk, local… have become blurred.
After a massive police operation in 2012, “Operation Cesar”, this zone of 8 miles square has been free of State intervention, and has become known as a “zone outside the law”. We have (re)created our own infrastructures and are autonomous in many ways. Some things work less well, like conflict resolution, but overall the occupation is settled into the territory and is planning for the long term, together with the “locals” and “farmers” involved in the struggle and those living close by.
In this talk hosted by someone who lives on the ZAD, there will be a bit of history and context on the land, information about various projects, a discussion of what’s going on now, on the occupiers’ side and also on the government’s side, and the state of emergency.
Read more about it in this zine, Against the Airport and Its World: https://ia800507.us.archive.org/27/items/anarchomex2011/Againsttheairport-print.pdf
This event is free and handicap-accessilbe, (though the bathroom is not very accessible.)
[January 15 at 7pm at Wooden Shoe Books 704 South St]
