Tag: fully automated luxury communism
Opinion: Grimes is Right About Communism and AI – Kind Of
Aaron Bastani
Grimes took to TikTok last week with a 'proposition for the communists': drop enforced farming, adopt AI. While she's right to claim technology could recast our world for the better, she's wrong to think it can do so on its own.
The Bastani Factor: Will Amazon Fresh Kill the High Street? | the Bastani Factor
Amazon already dominates online retail, but is it set to take over the high street? Last month, Jeff Bezos’ trillion-dollar company opened the UK’s first Amazon Fresh store, stocked with own brand groceries, including milk and meat, and cashiers replaced by an entirely automated process. Aaron Bastani visited the store in Ealing, West London, to […]
Long Read: Fully Automated Green Communism
Aaron Bastani
How can we secure luxury for all without careering even faster towards climate catastrophe? Aaron Bastani discusses.
Novara FM: Exponential Technologies: What Do They Mean?
On #NovaraFM, Aaron Bastani and James Butler discuss the exponential trends behind a range of disruptive technologies which, some claim, pose a threat to market capitalism and the society of work.
Novara FM: Peter Frase: Life After Capitalism
On #NovaraFM, James Butler speaks to Peter Frase of Jacobin, author of Four Futures, about life after capitalism and the politics of the future.
6 Things André Gorz Can Teach Us About Building a Post-Work Society
Wanda Vrasti
With notions of a 'post-work politics' becoming prominent among anti-capitalists, Wanda Vrasti argues it's time to revisit the work of the André Gorz to provide a corrective to automation-centred ambitions.
The Fix: The Fix: Brexit Britain, a Three Day Weekend and Elections in France
Michael Walker is joined by Maya Goodfellow and Tom Mills for this week's episode of the Fix.
Novara FM: Shadow Channels~
On #NovaraFM Ash Sarkar is joined by Juha van't Zelfde, Jay Owens and Liv Wynter to discuss art, digital platforms, and potentials for a new counter-culture.