S02E27 - Nick Dyer-Witheford on Biocommunism

Nick Dyer-Witheford on biocommunism, "a communism emerging from
the catastrophes capital now inflicts throughout the bios, the
realm of life itself".


 


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Shownotes


Nick Dyer-Witheford (University of Western Ontario):


https://www.fims.uwo.ca/people/profiles/nick_dyer-witheford.html


Dyer-Witheford, Nick. 2022. Biocommie: Power and Catastrophe.:


https://projectpppr.org/populisms/biocommie-power-and-catastrophe


PPPR - Platforms, Populisms, Pandemics and Riots (Research
Project):


https://projectpppr.org/


Dyer-Witheford, Nick. 2013. Red plenty platforms. Culture Machine
14 (PDF).:


http://svr91.edns1.com/~culturem/index.php/cm/article/view/511/526


Dyer-Witheford, Nick. 2007. Commonism. Turbulence 1:


http://www.turbulence.org.uk/turbulence-1/commonism/index.html


Dyer-Witheford, Nick. 1999. Cyber-Marx: Cycles and circuits of
struggle in high-technology capitalism. University of Illinois
Press.:


https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p067952


Dyer-Witheford, Nick. 2015. Cyber-proletariat: Global labour in
the digital vortex. London: Pluto Press. (PDF available):


http://digamo.free.fr/dyerwith.pdf


Dyer-Witheford, Nick, Atle Mikkola Kjøsen, and James Steinhoff.
2019. Inhuman power. Artificial intelligence and the future of
capitalism. London: Pluto Press.:


https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745338606/inhuman-power/


 


Further Shownotes


Bastani, Aaron. 2019. Fully Automated Luxury Communism. London:
Verso.:


https://www.versobooks.com/books/3156-fully-automated-luxury-communism


Helen Hester:


https://www.uwl.ac.uk/staff/helen-hester


Laboria Cuboniks Collective. 2018. The Xenofeminist Manifesto: A
Politics for Alienation. London: Verso:


https://www.versobooks.com/books/2887-the-xenofeminist-manifesto


Srnicek, Nick und Alex Williams. 2016. Inventing the Future.
London: Verso:


https://www.versobooks.com/books/2315-inventing-the-future


Tooze, Adam. 2021. Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World Economy.
New York: Viking.:


https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/669575/shutdown-by-adam-tooze/


The New Age of Catastrophe - Alex Callinicos's Farewell Lecture:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-DTifOGfM4


Negri, Antonio. 2005. Crisis of the Crisis State. Libcom:


https://libcom.org/library/crisis-state-antonio-negri


Terranova, Tiziana. 2009. Another Life: The Nature of Political
Economy in Foucault’s Genealogy of Biopolitics., Theory, Culture
& Society, 26(6), 234–65.:


https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0263276409352193


Fraser, Nancy. 2016. Contradictions of Capital and Care. New Left
Review 100, 99-117.:


https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii100/articles/nancy-fraser-contradictions-of-capital-and-care


Klein, Naomi. 2008. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster
Capitalism. New York: Picador.:


https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/55595/the-shock-doctrine-by-naomi-klein/9780141024530


Buck, Holly Jean. 2021. Ending fossil fuels: Why net zero is not
enough. Verso.:


https://www.versobooks.com/books/3879-ending-fossil-fuels


Cox, Stan. 2013. Any way you slice it: the past, present, and
future of rationing. The New Press.:


https://thenewpress.com/books/any-way-you-slice-it


Benanav, Aaron. 2020. Automation and the Future of Work. London:
Verso.:


https://www.versobooks.com/books/4029-automation-and-the-future-of-work


Jameson, Fredric. 2016. An American utopia. Dual Power and the
Universal Army. London: Verso, 1-96.:


https://www.versobooks.com/books/2118-an-american-utopia


Doctorow, Cory. 2020. Full Employment. Locus Magazine:


https://locusmag.com/2020/07/cory-doctorow-full-employment/


Out of the Woods. 2018. The Uses of Disaster. Commune Magazine:
https://communemag.com/the-uses-of-disaster/ 


Out of the Woods. 2020. Hope Against Hope: Writings on Ecological
Crisis. New York: Common Notions.:


https://libcom.org/article/hope-against-hope-out-woods-book-coming-soon


Foucault, Michel, & Michel Senellart (transl.). 2008. The
Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-79.
Palgrave Macmillan:


https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312203412/thebirthofbiopolitics


[German] Sutterlütti, Simon & Meretz, Stefan. 2018.
Kapitalismus aufheben. Hamburg: VSA Verlag. (PDF verfügbar):


https://www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rls_uploads/pdfs/sonst_publikationen/VSA_Sutterluetti_Meretz.pdf


Malm, Andreas. 2020. Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War
Communism in the Twenty-First Century. London: Verso.:


https://www.versobooks.com/books/3704-corona-climate-chronic-emergency


Nunes, Rodrigo. 2021. Neither vertical nor horizontal: A theory
of political organization. London: Verso.:


https://www.versobooks.com/books/3810-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal


Excerpt from Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of
Political Organization (Verso 2021):


https://projectpppr.org/platforms/the-traumas-of-organization


Interview by Nick Dyer-Witheford with Rodrigo Nunes:


https://projectpppr.org/platforms/neither-vertical-nor-horizontal-interview-with-rodrigo-nunes


Diane DiPrima:


https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_DiPrima 


Regarding scarcity in liberalism see the Future Histories Episode
with Ute Tellman as well as:


Tellmann, Ute. 2017. Life and money: The genealogy of the liberal
economy and the displacement of politics. Columbia University
Press.:


http://cup.columbia.edu/book/life-and-money/9780231182263


 


Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics


S02E10 | Aaron Benanav on Associational Socialism and Democratic
Planning:


https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e10-aaron-benanav-on-associational-socialism-and-democratic-planning/


[German] S01E47 | Stefan Meretz zu Commonismus:


https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e47-stefan-meretz-zu-commonismus/


S01E31 | Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition
of Capital (Part 1):


https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e31-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-1/


 


(German) Episoden zum Thema alternative Regierungskünste


S02E25 | Bini Adamczak zu Beziehungsweisen:


https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e25-bini-adamczak-zu-beziehungsweisen/


S02E24 | Gabriel Kuhn zu anarchistischer Regierungskunst:


https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e24-gabriel-kuhn-zu-anarchistischer-regierungskunst/


S02E08 | Thomas Biebricher zu neoliberaler Regierungskunst:


https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e08-thomas-biebricher-zu-neoliberaler-regierungskunst/


S02E06 | Alexander Kluge zu Zukünften der Kooperation:


https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e06-alexander-kluge-zu-zukuenften-der-kooperation/


S02E03 | Ute Tellmann zu Ökonomie als Kultur:


https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e03-ute-tellmann-zu-oekonomie-als-kultur/


S01E53 | Kalle Kunkel zu Herrschaftstechnologien in der Krise:


https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e53-kalle-kunkel-zu-herrschaftstechnologien-in-der-krise/


S01E25 | Joseph Vogl zur Krise des Regierens:


https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e25-joseph-vogl-zur-krise-des-regierens/


S01E11 | Frieder Vogelmann zu alternativen Regierungskünsten:


https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e11-frieder-vogelmann-zu-alternativen-regierungskuensten/


 


Find a collection of Future Histories episodes related to
democratic economic planning here:


https://www.listennotes.com/playlists/zeitgen%C3%B6ssische-planwirtschaft-in-future-S9jTkXfb-gp/episodes/


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