Economic Science Fictions by Davies, William -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction to Economic Science Fictions

Challenging the Market Wither Utopias? Why ‘Economic Science Fictions’?

I The Science and Fictions of the Economy

1 Economics, Science Fiction, History and Comparative Studies 2 Future Incorporated?

The Social Fiction of the Corporation The Social Science Fiction of the Corporation Beyond Corporations ‘Real Utopias’: Cooperation rather than Corporation Concluding Reflections

II Capitalist Dystopias

Introduction Defining Extraction Extraction and Digital Technology Corporeal Extraction and Social Reproduction Environmental Extraction and Dystopia Conclusion: Extraction and Utopia

6 Pain Camp Economics

Rise of the CorpoNation Holo Accords The Aiholo Pain ©Amp

7 AT392-Red 8 The New Black 9 Fatberg and the Sinkholes: A Report on the Findings of a Journey into the United Regions of England by PostRational

Foreword Objectives and Methodology Prototypical Hypothesis Absorbism The Infrastructural The Architectural The Personal Return from the URE

III Design for a Different Future

10 Prefabricating Communism: Mass Production and the Soviet City

The Elimination of Excess Automating the Ideal Communist City Out of Monumentality, Standardisation: Cheryomushki Standardising Nonconformity: Belyayevo Standardising Individuality: Chertanovo

Introduction Megastructures: Definitions and Depictions Megastructures in Games Economies and Imaginations Games and the Architectural Imaginary

12 Economic Design Fictions: Finding the Human Scale

Designing Fictions and Frictions Why Design Fiction Matters for Economics

Everydayness Ambiguity Discussion

A Blueprint for Economic Design Fictions

Looking at the Extremes: Scarcity and Post-Scarcity Contexts The Speculative Context Canvas

Resources and Products Political Set-Up and Orientation Modes of Production, Distribution and Revenue Externalities

The Speculative Product Canvas

Case Study: Data, in Scarcity and Post-Scarcity Worlds

Thoughts on the Limits of Economic Design Fictions

A Slider for the Uncanny An Ecosystem of Design Fictions Reframing Discussions

Better to Play with Futures than to Struggle with Them

13 Valuing Utopia in Speculative and Critical Design

Documentarians and Archivists Prefiguration and Performance Speculative Proposition Conclusion

IV Fumbling for Utopia

Overview

Leadership of General Ned Ludd and Origin of the Term ‘Luddite’ Takeover of Factories Luddite Ceremonial Hammers Response to the Luddites

Tides Turn towards the Luddites, and Their Ultimate Victory

Textile Factories under Early Luddite Rule Resulting Peace and the Economic Power of the Cadres Establishment of the Luddite Councils Role of Lyanna Ludd and Continued Development of the Luddite Councils Advances of the Luddite Councils Worldwide Effects of the Luddite Councils Automatisation of Manufacturing Luddite Philosophy Rebellion against Luddism: the Asteroid Revolt Sustainomics

17 Public Money and Democracy

Part I: The Comedy of the Commons Part II: Data as Demos

Figures Contributors Index