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2.0

I'm not sure how, exactly, but I wound up with the wrong idea about what this book was.

The summary says that "In Four Futures, Frase imagines how this post-capitalist world might look, deploying the tools of both social science and speculative fiction to explore what communism, rentism, socialism and exterminism might actually entail." And I guess I kind of expected to see something imagined. Some sort of fictional slice-of-life describing what it might be like to live in those four scenarios. But that's not at all what I got.

Instead, Frase just describes how things might work. It feels far more dry and academic than I expected.

But I'm disappointed even from that standpoint... The book is only about 150 pages long, so it's already going to be light on substance. But then the first 20% of the book is introduction, and and another 10% of notes and references at the end. So there's only about 100 pages of actual content.

Ultimately I kind of wish I'd just read or watched some of the fictional examples that Frase cited, instead of reading this book.