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Day: May 2, 2016

Inventing the future, ignoring the past – a review

Posted on 2 May, 201622 August, 2017 by preorg

There was much that interested me in Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams’ Inventing the Future. The first part of the book constructs a critique of what they call ‘folk politics’. This they define as privileging the local, the small over the large, fetishising horizontalism and direct action, refusing to make demands, and a lack of…

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