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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Episode Keywords:


#RichardBarbrook, #Interview, #JanGroos, #FutureHistories,
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#KalifornischeIdeologie, #Hayek, #Monoskop, #AndyCameron,
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#StaffordBeer, #DigitalSocialism, #EvgenyMorozov,
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