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:
Homepage Digital Liberties cooperative:
https://digitalliberties.org.uk/
Homepage "Games for The Many" (who made e.g. CorbynRun):
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):
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):
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):
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:
German campaign for a 4-Day-Week:
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:
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Episode Keywords:
#RichardBarbrook, #Interview, #JanGroos, #FutureHistories, #Cybernetics, #Kybernetik, #Podcast, #CalifornianIdeology, #KalifornischeIdeologie, #Hayek, #Monoskop, #AndyCameron, #CyberCommunism, #Communism, #Technopolitics, #Cybersyn, #StaffordBeer, #DigitalSocialism, #EvgenyMorozov, #ImaginaryFutures, #SiliconValley, #Economy, #TheRegulationOfLiberty, #HypermediaResearch, #NetRevolution, #DotComCapitalism, #algorithm, #Algorithmus, #DasRegierenDerAlgorithmen, #AlgorithmischesRegieren, #FutureHistoriesInternational,
