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

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