Partially Automated Comfort Communism, In Conversation with Paris Marx

The Androids and Assets team sits down with journalist Paris Marx of Tech Won’t Save Us to talk about the ongoing struggle for the future of technology and by extension the future of humanity.

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Errata

Paris has written articles on this topic and a few are collected here for you.

Aaron Bastani’s ‘luxury communism’ is a false future

Jeff Bezos and His Billionaire Space Fantasy

Jeff Bezos’s Vision of the Future Is Basically Blade Runner

Elon Musk Is Planning for Climate Apocalypse

Paris mentioned a whole bunch of great things to read and we’ve done our best to list them all here for you.

I Can’t Bring Myself to Stand in Line for Food Again by Mirta Ojito

Utopia, not futurism: Why doing the impossible is the most rational thing we can do by Murray Bookchin

Eco-Socialism or Bust by Thea Riofrancos, Robert Shaw, Will Speck

A Path to Democratic Socialism Means a Path To Climate Justice by Thea Riofrancos

PACTO ECOSOCIAL DEL SUR

The Green New Deal as proposed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin and also everything else she ever wrote.

Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

Algorithms and Apocalypse, In conversation with Louis Evans

A conversation with author Louis Evans, in which we discuss his recent short story Flash Crash, published by the good people at Escape Pod. We talk commerce, nuclear war, and the nature of value.

If you want to read/hear Flash Crash follow this link: https://escapepod.org/2019/06/06/escape-pod-683-flash-crash/

In this interview Louis Recomends the following texts:

Fondly Fahrenheit by Alfred Bester

China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh

The Sorcerer Of The Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson