Mark Blyth – P2P Foundation https://blog.p2pfoundation.net Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Fri, 07 Apr 2017 07:18:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 62076519 Inventing the Future: a Documentary Adaptation https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/inventing-future-documentary-adaptation/2017/04/06 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/inventing-future-documentary-adaptation/2017/04/06#respond Thu, 06 Apr 2017 11:55:00 +0000 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=64720 Continuing our ongoing conversation on post-capitalism, Universal Basic Income and other trends, here’s an early look at a documentary version of Nick Srnicek’s and Alex Williams’s Inventing the Future ​The highly successful book Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams is being adapted into a documentary called Inventing the... Continue reading →

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​The highly successful book Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams is being adapted into a documentary called Inventing the Future.

The project is currently in the process of being crowdfunded, and you can find details on how to support it here.

With the rise of what Mark Blyth has called “Global Trumpism,” the historical moment beckons for answers that are novel and transformative. In light of this, elaborating on ideas established in the book, this film will be a unique glimpse into a post-work world. Not merely a talking-heads piece, ItF will also be an expression of life after capitalism and its discontents.

The future is already but not yet. This film will palpate the surface of art, culture, and politics, releasing the flows of imaginative creation to provoke thought and action towards possible futures that are not yet realized. Automation. Universal Basic Income. Post-Work. Collective Subjectivity. Human Flourishing. These are concepts that Inventing the Future will express and explore.

At the helm is Director Isiah Medina, whose debut feature 88:88 was hailed as a “masterpiece” and an “avant-garde sensation” after it played Locarno, TIFF, and NYFF (among others). Original authors Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams are co-crafting the script.

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]]> https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/inventing-future-documentary-adaptation/2017/04/06/feed 0 64720 Understanding the current blocked ‘world conjuncture’, and why it produces ‘global Trumpism’ https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/understanding-current-blocked-world-conjuncture-produces-global-trumpism/2017/01/25 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/understanding-current-blocked-world-conjuncture-produces-global-trumpism/2017/01/25#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2017 06:12:52 +0000 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=63077 This is one of the most clear-eyed analyses of I have seen on the state of global empire to date, and why it produces populist reactions on both the left (Syriza/Podemos) and the right (Trump, etc ..). We recommend watching at least the first fifty minutes of this stellar presentation by Mark Blyth. At the... Continue reading →

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]]> This is one of the most clear-eyed analyses of I have seen on the state of global empire to date, and why it produces populist reactions on both the left (Syriza/Podemos) and the right (Trump, etc ..).

We recommend watching at least the first fifty minutes of this stellar presentation by Mark Blyth. At the end of his lecture, he notes both of these reactions to the current crisis, for which no clear escape seems at hand, are in fact about a return to local control by national governments. What is missing therefore is a new global outlook that is not neoliberal globalization, nor simple localism. This is I believe, what the analysis of the P2P Foundation actually provides, which keeps global cooperation intact, while aiming for the ‘subsidiarity of material production’. You’ll here much more about this in the course of this year.

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