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Economic Science Fictions /
An innovative new anthology exploring how science fiction can motivate new approaches to economics.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Goldsmiths Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction to Economic Science Fictions; Challenging the Market; Wither Utopias?; Why 'Economic Science Fictions'?; I The Science and Fictions of the Economy; 1 Economics, Science Fiction, History and Comparative Studies; 2 Future Incorporated?; The Social Fiction of the Corporation; The Social Science Fiction of the Corporation; Beyond Corporations; 'Real Utopias': Cooperation rather than Corporation; Concluding Reflections.
- 3 Currencies of Social Organisation4 Automating Economic Revolution; II Capitalist Dystopias; 5 'Feeding Like a Parasite'; Introduction; Defining Extraction; Extraction and Digital Technology; Corporeal Extraction and Social Reproduction; Environmental Extraction and Dystopia; Conclusion: Extraction and Utopia; 6 Pain Camp Economics; Rise of the CorpoNation; Holo Accords; The Aiholo; Pain Amp; 7 AT392-Red; 8 The New Black; 9 Fatberg and the Sinkholes: A Report on the Findings of a Journey into the United Regions of England by PostRational; Fatberg; Sinkhole; Foreword.
- To the United Regions of EnglandObjectives and Methodology; Why?; What?; When?; Where?; How?; Prototypical Hypothesis; 1 London's insatiable capacity for growth pushed against the constraints of the system; 2 London was kicked out, and the URE was formed, as a reaction to its insatiability; 3 The URE has set out, driven by necessity and opportunity, to do things differently; In short, we think this; Welcome to Absorbism; Absorbism; Absorbism, Wrung Out ... ; Components of exchange in the new regionalism; Redundancies of exchange; Exchanges with people; Exchanges of transparency.
- The InfrastructuralThe Physical; The (Formerly) Invisible; Form through Function and Back Again; The Arbiters; Three Arbiter Types; The Architectural; New Communality; Sites of Parties; The Personal; Capitalism
- the You-You; Absorbism
- the We-Saw; Return from the URE; III Design for a Different Future; 10 Prefabricating Communism; The Elimination of Excess; Automating the Ideal Communist City; Out of Monumentality, Standardisation: Cheryomushki; Standardising Nonconformity: Belyayevo; Standardising Individuality: Chertanovo.
- 11 Megastructures, Superweapons and Global Architectures in Science Fiction Computer GamesIntroduction; Megastructures: Definitions and Depictions; Megastructures in Games; Economies and Imaginations; Games and the Architectural Imaginary; 12 Economic Design Fictions: Finding the Human Scale; Designing Fictions and Frictions; Why Design Fiction Matters for Economics; Everydayness; Ambiguity; Discussion; A Blueprint for Economic Design Fictions; Looking at the Extremes: Scarcity and Post-Scarcity Contexts; The Speculative Context Canvas; Resources and Products; Political Set-Up and Orientation.