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Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
by Peter Frase
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.
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.