Futures Beyond Dystopia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Futures Beyond Dystopia write by Richard Slaughter. This book was released on 2004. Futures Beyond Dystopia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How can dystopian futures help provide the motivation to change the ways we operate day to day? This book raises and tackles a number of important questions about the future and the lessons we can learn for the present.
Beyond Dystopia!
Beyond Dystopia! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Dystopia! write by James Thomas Lukasavage. This book was released on 2018-05. Beyond Dystopia! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Beyond Dystopia! is a polemic, a prognosis, and a prescription based on historical (and current) fact, and what I am seeking is nothing less than humanity's apotheosis, or as Voltaire's Candide had it, "le meilleur des mondes possibles," which does not have to be a world without humans, only a world with a limited number of humans, doing less. Centrally at issue in Beyond Dystopia! is how the global corporate state systematically classifies, racializes, and as necessary, marginalizes people through social engineering in order to convert them into a compliant, fungible, collective resource in the furtherance of maximal, infinite economic growth, even to the demise of life on Earth. But there is perhaps another way! In Beyond Dystopia! we will look back from our current dystopian state, deep into humanity's prehistory, and then to one of two possible futures; one that holds total, global annihilation through overpopulation, hyper-development, and environmental collapse, or a future in which humans have learned to exist in equipoise with nature, and with one another, through transcendental, collective asceticism, and responsible, economic degrowth.
Facing Our Futures
Facing Our Futures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Facing Our Futures write by Nikolas Badminton. This book was released on 2023-02-16. Facing Our Futures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fascinating insight into how professionals and businesses can develop their foresight and strategy to ensure that they are prepared for an unpredictable future. Businesses, organizations and society-at-large are all subject to unforeseeable events and incidents that often have a dramatic impact upon prosperity and profit. Due to their unpredictable nature, business leaders and executive teams are unable to prepare for these specific events. But, through innovation, strategizing and an open-minded approach, they can restructure their organization and practices in order to mitigate (or even take advantage of) the impact of such events. In Facing Our Futures, Nikolas Badminton draws upon his decades of experience as a consultant and futurist to provide readers with the skillset and outlook they need to prepare their organization, team and themselves for whatever obstacles the future may hold. CEOs, executive teams, government leaders and policy makers need to gain a broader perspective and a firmer grasp on how their relevant industry, society or community is evolving and changing. Once they have acquired this foresight, they need to then discover how to fully harness it – by strengthening their foundations, forecasting and establishing a resilient and adaptable strategy. Facing Our Futures acts as a primer on the value of seeing how bad things can get and the power in imagining these futures. It also provides a proven strategic planning and foresight methodology - the Positive Dystopia Canvas (PDC) - that allows leaders to supercharge their teams to build evocative visions of futures that strengthen planning today.
Bypassing Dystopia
Bypassing Dystopia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bypassing Dystopia write by Joyce Nelson. This book was released on 2018-04. Bypassing Dystopia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Utopia/Dystopia
Utopia/Dystopia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Utopia/Dystopia write by Michael D. Gordin. This book was released on 2010-08-23. Utopia/Dystopia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal future: large-scale social, political, ethical, and religious spaces that have yet to be realized. Utopia/Dystopia offers a fresh approach to these ideas. Rather than locate utopias in grandiose programs of future totality, the book treats these concepts as historically grounded categories and examines how individuals and groups throughout time have interpreted utopian visions in their daily present, with an eye toward the future. From colonial and postcolonial Africa to pre-Marxist and Stalinist Eastern Europe, from the social life of fossil fuels to dreams of nuclear power, and from everyday politics in contemporary India to imagined architectures of postwar Britain, this interdisciplinary collection provides new understandings of the utopian/dystopian experience. The essays look at such issues as imaginary utopian perspectives leading to the 1856-57 Xhosa Cattle Killing in South Africa, the functioning racist utopia behind the Rhodesian independence movement, the utopia of the peaceful atom and its global dissemination in the mid-1950s, the possibilities for an everyday utopia in modern cities, and how the Stalinist purges of the 1930s served as an extension of the utopian/dystopian relationship. The contributors are Dipesh Chakrabarty, Igal Halfin, Fredric Jameson, John Krige, Timothy Mitchell, Aditya Nigam, David Pinder, Marci Shore, Jennifer Wenzel, and Luise White.
