Peter Frase
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Smart, thought-provoking look at the political economic paths we might take. The author is a Marxist, and some of his sections make or are based on assumptions I don't share (and sometimes find naive or somewhat inconsistent). But this short, crisp work is very useful for anyone looking for frameworks for better understanding the current moment and where we might be headed.
¿Cómo será la vida después del capitalismo?
Peter Frase imagina cuatro posibles futuros recurriendo a la economía, la sociología y al universo más pop de la ciencia ficción. Y manejando las grandes claves de las que depende todo: ecologismo, trabajo, robotización, lucha de clases. Su idea no es acertar, sino lograr que tomemos conciencia de cómo evitar lo peor de esos cuatro escenarios. De ello depende, sea el que sea, nuestro futuro.
Peter Frase imagina cuatro posibles futuros recurriendo a la economía, la sociología y al universo más pop de la ciencia ficción. Y manejando las grandes claves de las que depende todo: ecologismo, trabajo, robotización, lucha de clases. Su idea no es acertar, sino lograr que tomemos conciencia de cómo evitar lo peor de esos cuatro escenarios. De ello depende, sea el que sea, nuestro futuro.
Filled with disclaimers about not being a work of futurism, this is nevertheless a nice piece of speculative fiction (or "speculative social science," to use the Frase phrase). A simple two axes do the job of postulating future political economies: scarcity v. abundance, hierarchy v. egalitarianism. Combining pairs serve to illustrate everything from a Star Trek-style communist utopia of plenty to an immiserated, "exterminist" world of rich enclaves and mass suffering.
Obviously, this isn't meant to be a comprehensive future analysis, but as a starting point for trying to build a better world, it's pretty good.… (mer)
Obviously, this isn't meant to be a comprehensive future analysis, but as a starting point for trying to build a better world, it's pretty good.… (mer)
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His ample citation provide food for thought, his abstract attempt to comprehensively map society's possible outcomes is a good framework on which to shelve others' predictions; Frase may be wrong about the contents of each quadrant, but no future will escape his map.
Perhaps I am too fickle, but when I started reading this book I was mostly disappointed that it included no whole fictions, then I didn't appreciate the block-quoted pieces when they happened.… (mer)