Beyond Digital Capitalism · New Ways of Living

Essays that explore new ways of living with technological change

Every year since 1964, the Socialist Register has offered a fascinating survey of movements and ideas

from the independent new left. This year's edition asks readers to explore just how we need to live with

new technologies. Essays in this 57th Socialist Register reveal the contradictions and dislocations of

technological change in the twenty-first century. And they explore alternative ways of living: from

artificial intelligence (AI) to the arts, from transportation to fashion, from environmental science to

economic planning.

Greg Albo - Post-capitalism: Alternatives or detours?

Nicole Aschoff and Pankaj Mahta - AI-deology: Science, capitalism and the dream of a 'people's AI'

Hugo Radice - There is nothing artificial about AI: Labour, class, utopia, socialism

Larry Lohman - Interpretation machines: Contradictions of digital mechanization in twenty-first century

capitalism

Robin Hahnel - Democratic socialist planning: Against, with and beyond the new technologies

Tanner Mirrlees - Platform socialists in the age of digital capitalism

Derek Hrynyshyn - Imagining information socialism

Bryan Palmer - Capitalism and the clock: Time's meaning in the struggle for socialism

Sean Sweeney and John Treat - Shifting gears: Labour strategies for low-carbon public transit mobility

Adam Greenfield - Smart cities, technological traps, democratic possibilities

Christoph Hermann - The consequences of commodification: Contours of a post-capitalist society

Joan Sangster - The surveillance of service labour: Conditions and possibilities of resistance

Jeronimo Montero Bressan - Beyond neoliberal fashion: Imagining clothing production as a human need

Massimiliano Mollona - Art/Commons: Art collectives and the post-capitalist imagination

Ingar Solty - The world of tomorrow: Scenarios for our future between demise and hope