Future Histories

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 & material for further reading:

• Richard on Monoskop

  https://monoskop.org/Richard_Barbrook
  

• Homepage "Imaginary Futures"

  http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/

• Homepage "Class Wargames"

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

• Essay "The Californian Ideology" by Richard Barbrook & Andy Cameron

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

• Essay "Cyber Communism" by Richard Barbrook

  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/

• Richard on Twitter

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

• Homepage Technopolitics Research Group

  http://www.technopolitics.info/
  

• Article on the "Preston Model" (municipal socialism)

  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/

• "Grundrisse" by Karl Marx

  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/

• Book "Civilization at the Crossroads" by Radovan Richta

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

• Book "The People’s Republic of Walmart" by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski

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

• Book "Cybernetic Revolutionaries" by Eden Medina

  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

• Book "Fully Automated Luxury Communism"by Aaron Bastani

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

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

  https://novaramedia.com/

• Essay "Digital Socialism" by Evgeny Morozov

  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

• Essay "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren" (1930) by John Maynard Keynes

  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

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