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 Bandcamp, Facebook and the Free Music Archive.
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
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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