S01E16 - Richard Barbrook on Imaginary Futures

What could desirable imaginary futures look like? Richard Barbrook brings up some very interesting ideas on this question and explores past and present futures in order to work towards different worlds to come.

Shownotes

Richard on Monoskop:

https://monoskop.org/Richard_Barbrook

Richard on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/richardbarbrook?lang=de

Homepage "Imaginary Futures":

http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/

Homepage "Class Wargames":

https://www.classwargames.net/?tag=richard-barbrook

Barbrook, Richard und Andy Cameron. 1995. "The Californian Ideology". In Science as Culture 6(1). 44-72:

http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/2007/04/17/the-californian-ideology-2/

Barbrook, Richard. 2000. "Cyber Communism". In Science as Culture 9(1). 5-40:

http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/2007/04/17/cyber-communism-how-the-americans-are-superseding-capitalism-in-cyberspace/

Homepage Digital Liberties cooperative:

https://digitalliberties.org.uk/

Homepage "Games for The Many" (who made e.g. CorbynRun):

http://gamesforthemany.org/

Homepage Technopolitics Research Group:

http://www.technopolitics.info/

Hanna, Thomas und Joe Bilsborough. 2018. "The ‘Preston Model’ and the modern politics of municipal socialism". In openDemocracy 12(2018):

https://www.academia.edu/39696129/The_Preston_Model_and_the_modern_politics_of_municipal_socialism?email_work_card=view-paper

Wiki on "Austro Marxism":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austromarxism

Report "Alternative Models of Ownership":

https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Alternative-Models-of-Ownership.pdf

Homepage "The World Transformed" Festival:

https://theworldtransformed.org/

Newspeak House (group of political technologists):

https://www.nwspk.com/

Marx, Karl. 2015. Grundrisse. marxists.org:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/grundrisse.pdf

Wiki about Robert Owen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Owen

Archive of the American Society for Cybernetics:

http://asc-cybernetics.org/online-library/

Homepage "Virtual Futures":

http://www.virtualfutures.co.uk/

Richta, Radovan. 1969. Civilization at the Crossroads. New York: Routledge:

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315177663

Phillips, Leigh und Michal Rozworski. 2019. The People’s Republic of Walmart. London: Verso:

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2822-the-people-s-republic-of-walmart

Medina, Eden. 2011. Cybernetic Revolutionaries. Cambridge: MIT Press:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-revolutionaries

Stafford Beer on Monoskop (with short video on Project Cybersyn):

https://monoskop.org/Stafford_Beer

Wiki "Project Cybersyn" (socialist cybernetics in Chile):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn

Bastani, Aaron. 2020. Fully Automated Luxury Communism. London: Verso:

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2757-fully-automated-luxury-communism

Homepage Novara Media (of which Aaron Bastani is a co-founder):

https://novaramedia.com/

Morozov, Evgeny. 2019. “Digital Socialism". In New Left Review 116/117:

https://newleftreview.org/issues/II116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialism

Campaign for a 4-Day-Week:

https://www.4dayweek.co.uk/

German campaign for a 4-Day-Week:

https://www.4tagewoche.de/

Exhibition "Red Vienna" at the MUSA in Vienna:

https://www.wienmuseum.at/en/exhibitions/upcoming/detail/das-rote-wien-1919-1934.html

Keynes, John Maynard. 1930. “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren”. In Essays in Persuasion. New York: Harcourt Brace. 358-373:

https://assets.aspeninstitute.org/content/uploads/files/content/upload/Intro_and_Section_I.pdf

Wiki Charles Fourier:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fourier

Wiki ARPANET:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET

Wiki RAND Corporation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND_Corporation

Wiki "Austrian School of Economics":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_School

Wiki Friedrich Hayek:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek

Wiki "Road to Serfdom" by Hayek:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Serfdom

Thematisch angrenzende Future Histories Episoden:

Was ist die Kalifornische Ideologie? Future Histories Kurzvideo:

https://youtu.be/LedG4UgG3t8

 

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