Beyond Digital Capitalism: New Ways of Living: Socialist Register 2021

Essays that explore new ways of living with technological changeEvery year since 1964, the Socialist Register has offered a fascinating survey of movements and ideasfrom the independent new left. This year's edition asks readers to explore just how we need to live withnew technologies. Essays in this 57th Socialist Register reveal the contradictions and dislocations oftechnological change in the twenty-first century. And they explore alternative ways of living: fromartificial intelligence (AI) to the arts, from transportation to fashion, from environmental science toeconomic 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, socialismLarry Lohman - Interpretation machines: Contradictions of digital mechanization in twenty-first centurycapitalismRobin Hahnel - Democratic socialist planning: Against, with and beyond the new technologiesTanner Mirrlees - Platform socialists in the age of digital capitalismDerek Hrynyshyn - Imagining information socialismBryan Palmer - Capitalism and the clock: Time's meaning in the struggle for socialismSean Sweeney and John Treat - Shifting gears: Labour strategies for low-carbon public transit mobilityAdam Greenfield - Smart cities, technological traps, democratic possibilitiesChristoph Hermann - The consequences of commodification: Contours of a post-capitalist societyJoan Sangster - The surveillance of service labour: Conditions and possibilities of resistanceJeronimo Montero Bressan - Beyond neoliberal fashion: Imagining clothing production as a human needMassimiliano Mollona - Art/Commons: Art collectives and the post-capitalist imaginationIngar Solty - The world of tomorrow: Scenarios for our future between demise and hope