William Davies-Economic Science Fictions

Cover
 Half-title
 Series information
 Title page
 Copyright information
 Dedication
 Table of 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. 3 Currencies of Social Organisation4 Automating Economic Revolution
 II Capitalist Dystopias
 5 'Feeding Like a Parasite'
 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
 Fatberg
 Sinkhole
 Foreword. To the United Regions of EnglandObjectives and Methodology
 Why?
 What?
 When?
 Where?
 How?
 Prototypical Hypothesis
 1 London's insatiable capacity for growth pushed against the constraints of the system
 2 London was kicked out, and the URE was formed, as a reaction to its insatiability
 3 The URE has set out, driven by necessity and opportunity, to do things differently
 In short, we think this
 Welcome to Absorbism
 Absorbism
 Absorbism, Wrung Out...
 Components of exchange in the new regionalism
 Redundancies of exchange
 Exchanges with people
 Exchanges of transparency. The InfrastructuralThe Physical
 The (Formerly) Invisible
 Form through Function and Back Again
 The Arbiters
 Three Arbiter Types
 The Architectural
 New Communality
 Sites of Parties
 The Personal
 Capitalism --
the You-You
 Absorbism --
the We-Saw
 Return from the URE
 III Design for a Different Future
 10 Prefabricating Communism
 The Elimination of Excess
 Automating the Ideal Communist City
 Out of Monumentality, Standardisation: Cheryomushki
 Standardising Nonconformity: Belyayevo
 Standardising Individuality: Chertanovo. 11 Megastructures, Superweapons and Global Architectures in Science Fiction Computer GamesIntroduction
 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.