ACFM: What Happened to Our Dreams of the Future?
A weird-left explanation of how the future lost its shine, with ideas from Max Weber, Kate Raworth and Jonathan White.
Tag: future
Opinion: The Dune Films Are the Most Important of the 2020s. But Not for the Reasons You Think
Aaron Bastani
The Dune films show that humans have the power to decide how technology shapes our future, writes Aaron Bastani - and nothing is inevitable.
Downstream: This Man Predicted the Future. Aaron Bastani Meets Peter Turchin
History is not just one thing after another. Historians spend lifetimes figuring out how X event in medieval France impacted Y event in 20th century Polynesia – but none of these historians have truly ‘done the math’ like this week’s guest. Coming from a background in applied mathematics, Peter Turchin has gathered an unprecedented amount […]
Novara FM: In the Cookshops of the Future
Peter Hudis joins James Butler to gaze into the future – and explain why the left must stake a claim to it.
The Bastani Factor: The 21st Century Crisis Nobody Talks About: Demographic Ageing
Humanity is getting older. But while the old outnumbering the young is one of the supreme achievements of our species, it comes with major challenges. Aaron Bastani on a crisis set to re-define societies around the world which, for the 21st century at least, is every bit as disruptive as climate change.
The Fix: #Charlottesville & the Rise of Fascism
Tonight on The Fix we’ll be discussing #Charlottesville & the rise of fascism. Join Eleanor Penny, Aaron Bastani + Ash Sarkar at 8pm
How Croydon Went Red
Julian Jackson
Here's how Tory Gavin Barwell, author of the book 'How to Win a Marginal Seat', saw his majority of just 165 overturned by Labour candidate Sarah Jones with the help of Momentum and some very dedicated campaigners.
Novara FM: Future Proof: Britain in the 2020s
Aaron Bastani and Eleanor Penny are joined by Mathew Lawrence from IPPR, author of Future Proof: Britain in the 2020s.
Exposing London’s Dirty Energy Complex: 5 Companies (and Industries) Causing Climate Change
Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik and Charlie Satow
Climate change is being driven by more than just big name oil and gas firms like BP. A whole network of industries contributes to and relies on environmental destruction. Here are five of the worst offenders based in London.
Knowledge is Power: Lessons from Dystopian Fiction
Ellen Judson
32 years since George Orwell’s predictions of the future failed to come to pass, and our world seems to be getting more dystopian every day - but of all society's dystopian elements, which should worry us most?
IMOBastani: Three Major Reforms to Save the Media in 2016
Traditional daily print news is virtually dead, online news paid for by ads is in crisis - what future is there for a dynamic, independent media? Aaron Bastani lays out three solutions.
Long Read: Tesla, iPad Socialism and the Return of the Future
Aaron Bastani
Sunday Long Read: Over the last year much has been made of the role of technology in the realisation of a left future, but if 'iPad socialism' is to become more than a slogan, it will be public - not private - funding that makes it happen.
IMOBastani: Osborne’s Cocktail of Threats – Crisis 2016?
What are the ingredients of the Cocktail of Threats? Aaron Bastani on why George Osborne is suddenly so keen to ring the alarm about the UK economy.
‘Socialism with an iPad’: Is John McDonnell a Corbo-Futurist?
Callum Cant
As George Osborne’s total failure to meet his own deficit reduction targets was made embarrassingly clear last week, John McDonnell has laid out his vision of an economy of the future.
Novara FM: Inventing the Future
This week Aaron Bastani is joined by Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek, co-editors of "Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a world without work"
Redefining the Battle Lines of the Left
Matthew Panton
Are we succeeding in articulating a post-crisis politics or is the left too hung up on bygone strategies and frameworks? Is it time to redraw the battle lines to adapt to post-crisis political life?
Novara FM: Europe’s Refugee Crisis
On this week's show Ash Sarkar, James Butler and Aaron Bastani discuss Europe and migration: how much will demographic change transform the politics of the continent in coming decades?
A 10-Point Programme for 21st Century Socialism
Jeremy Gilbert
Much of Corbyn’s ten-point plan reads like it dates from 30 or 40 years ago. Can a programme for radical government which makes almost no mention of the massive cultural and technological changes of the past 30 years really be credible?