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youtubeReview: Kim Stanley Robinson, Ministry For the Future (2020)
This book would be a good companion read either with Andreas Malm’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline, or with Robinson’s other books Red Moon and New York 2140. The story, written in 2020, begins in 2025. Climate change has progressed to the point that heat domes in the Global South reach deadly wet bulb…
The Ethics of Limit
by Tommaso Biagi Independent scholar of moral and political philosophy “I do not rule you, and you do not rule me.” ⸻ The Quiet Contradiction of Every Civilization Every civilization—flawless, perfect in composition and intention—exists atop a quiet contradiction: We love freedom. We suffer domination. We justify it as “necessary authority,” “the public order,” “the…
A Half-Built Garden, by Ruthanna Emrys (Tor 2022)
A Half-Built Garden is a well thought out first contact story, with an engaging plot — things which would make it well worth reading on its own. But as anyone familiar with my previous reviews will be aware, when I review near-future sci-fi stories about liberatory postcapitalist utopias, that’s not my primary concern. I review…
Liberal Socialism
Liberal Socialism By Kevin A. Carson A new C4SS study by Kevin Carson (online pdf).
