Our music is taken from the song “Pourquoi je pas?”, and is kindly provided by Chocolat Billy, a band based in Bordeaux, France. To find out more about them, visit their pages on BandcampFacebook and the Free Music Archive.

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Nick Lawrence teaches literature and ecology, world literature and critical theory at the University of Warwick in the UK.

He is a member of the Warwick Research Collective, and co-author of “Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature”, which was published in 2015. Nick is currently working on “PostCapitalist Aesthetics”, a monograph charting contemporary dystopian landscapes in tandem with cultural prefigurations of a world beyond today’s neoliberal capitalism.

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EPISODE RESOURCES

Debt: The first 5,000 years
by David Graeber
Melville House

Heterotopia
Wikipedia

Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital
by Jason Moore
Verso

Capitalist Realism: is there no alternative
by Mark Fisher
Zer0 Books

‘Back to the Future’ Writer: Biff Tannen Is Based on Donald Trump
by Ben Collins
The Daily Beast

On What Is and Is Not an SF Narration; With a List of 101 Victorian Books That Should Be Excluded From SF Bibliographies
by Darko Suvin
in Science Fiction Studies, # 14, Volume 5, Part 1raphies

 

How The Hunger Games inspired the revolutionary in all of us
by Ben Child
The Guardian

Rebel Without a Cause: The politics of The Hunger Games series aren’t as revolutionary as they’ve been hyped to be
by Marlon Lieber and Daniel Zamora
Jacobin

The Dispossessed
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursulakleguin.com

Woman on the Edge of Time
by Marge Piercy
Margepiercy.com

The Female Man
by Joanna Russ
Penguin Random House

Samuel Delany and the Past and Future of Science Fiction
by Peter Bebergal
The New Yorker

Ernst Bloch and the Principle of Hope
by Peter Thompson
The Guardian

Of Course They Would: On Kim Stanley Robinson’s “The Ministry for the Future”
by Gerry Canavan
Los Angeles Review of Books

New York 2140
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Kimstanleyrobinson.info
kimstanleyrobinson.info/content/new-york-2140

Looking Backward
by Edward Bellamy
Penguin Random House

Creating a utopian future: William Morris’s News from Nowhere
by Marcus Waithe
British Library

Enclosing the land
UK Parliament

Digital commons
WhatIs.com

‘Love And Solidarity’: Amid Coronavirus, Mutual Aid Groups Resurge In New York City
by Elizabeth Lawrence
NPR

Kropotkin-19: A Mutual Aid Response to COVID-19 in Athens
by Penny Travlou
Design & Culture

To Manage Wildfire, California Looks To What Tribes Have Known All Along
by Lauren Sommer
NPR

Apocalypses are more than the stuff of fiction — First Nations Australians survived one
by Claire G Coleman
ABC News Australia

The Great Derangement
by Amitav Ghosh
University of Chicago Press

The Swan Book
by Alexis Wright
Giramondo Publishing Company

 

Hobsbawm’s history
The Guardian

State capitalism
Wikipedia

Post-Capitalist Society
by Peter Drucker
Routledge

Postcapitalism: A guide to our future
by Paul Mason
Macmillan

Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams
Verso

History and Heteronomy: Critical Essays
by Moishe Postone
University of Tokyo

Postmodernism, or the cultural logic of late capitalism
by Fredric Jameson
New Left Review

Wal-Mart as Utopia
by Fredric Jameson
Verso Books

La Via Campesina
Official website

 

MORE BY NICK LAWRENCE

Post-Capitalist Futures: A Report on Imagination, in Ethical Futures and Global Science Fiction
by Zachary Kendal, Aisling Smith, Giulia Champion and Andrew Milner (eds.)
Palgrave

Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature
with Sharae Deckard, Neil Lazarus et al.
Liverpool University Press

Collectivity and Crisis in the Long Twentieth Century
with Rashmi Varma, Sharae Deckard, et al.,
Modern Language Quarterly, Volume 81, Issue 4

Everyday dissent: colonized lifeworlds in twentieth century poetry, in World Literature and Dissent
by Lorna Burns and Katie Muth (eds.)
Routledge

How to Read Adorno and Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment
Pluto Press