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BOOK LAUNCH: Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century, edited by Chris Spannos. Rhizome Cafe. Sunday, November 23, 5:30 pm
Come celebrate the launch of Chris Spannos’ book, Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century (AK Press). We’ll have music and dancing, there’s food and drinks, and of course we’ll hear from Chris as well as other contributors to the book. Find out what exactly a participatory economy and society is, hear proposals on how we can get from here to there, and find out what projects and experiments are already in the works. We hope to see you there!
Event details:
A celebration of "Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century" Sunday November 23rd, starting at 5:30pm.
Rhizome Cafe, 317 East Broadway,
Sponsored by: The
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About the book:
Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century, AK Press, 2008. Edited by Chris Spannos, with more than 30 other contributors from around the world, including Michael Albert, Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich Robin Hahnel, Steve Shalom, and Justin Podur, among others.
The book chronicles developments with the participatory economics movement throughout the world. The book asks what if we had direct control over our daily lives? What if society’s defining institutions—those encompassing economics, politics, kinship, culture, community, and ecology—were based not on competition, individual ownership, and coercion, but on self-management, equity, solidarity, and diversity? Real Utopia identifies and obliterates the barriers to an egalitarian, bottom-up society, while convincingly outlining how to build it.
Instead of simply declaring "another world is possible," the writers in this collection engage with what that world would look like, how it would function, and how our commitments to just outcomes is related to the sort of institutions we maintain.
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