9781915672469
360 pp
PB 216 x 135 mm
Mono
£12.99/$19.95
Cultural Studies / Philosophy
World rights available
How can science fiction imagine forms of life that are plausible, and yet different from anything that we already know?
Fluid Futures is about how science fiction imagines an open future. Science fiction does not claim to predict what will actually happen in times to come. But it offers pictures of potential developments; it narrates the unfolding of possibilities for change that are already implicit, or incipient, in the present moment.
Analysing the work of H.P. Lovecraft, William Gibson, Kim Stanley Robinson, Ursula Le Guin, Jeff VanderMeer and many more, Fluid Futures shows us how science fiction can help us imagine and build alternative worlds and escape from capitalism.
STEVEN SHAVIRO is the DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University in Detroit, and a recipient of the Science Fiction Research Association’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in Science Fiction Scholarship.
9781915672513
300 pp
PB 197 x 130 mm
Mono
£10.99/$14.95
Philosophy / Politics
World rights available excluding Italian, Spanish and Dutch
According to many reports, depression is spreading amongst the young generation. But what if this isn’t depression as we know it, but instead a reaction to the chaos and collapse of a seemingly unchanegable and unliveable future?
In Quit Everything, Franco Berardi argues that this “depression” is a conscious or unconscious withdrawal of psychological energy and a dis-investment of desire that he defines instead as “desertion”. A desertion from political participation, from the daily grind of capitalism, and from a society which offers nothing but brutality and pain.
In this book, Berardi analyses why this desertion is on the rise and why more people are quitting everything in our age of political impotence, the rise of the far-right, and climate collapse.
FRANCO BIFO BERARDI is an Italian Marxist philosopher, theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition. He is the of author of over 24 books, including After the Future, Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide and Futurability.