Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy

Name: Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy
Brand: Chelsea Green Publishing Co
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By (author): David Fleming Shaun Chamberlin

Surviving the Future is a story drawn from the fertile ground of the late David Flemings extraordinary Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It. That hardback consists of four hundred and four interlinked dictionary entries, inviting readers to choose their own path through its radical vision.

Recognizing that Lean Logics sheer size and unusual structure can be daunting, Flemings long-time collaborator Shaun Chamberlin has selected and edited one of these potential narratives to create Surviving the Future. The content, rare insights, and uniquely enjoyable writing style remain Flemings, but are presented here at a more accessible paperback-length and in conventional read-it-front-to-back format.

The subtitleCulture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economyhints at Flemings vision. He believed that the market economy will not survive its inherent flaws beyond the early decades of this century, and that its failure will bring great challenges, but he did not dwell on this: We know what we need to do. We need to build the sequel, to draw on inspiration which has lain dormant, like the seed beneath the snow.

Surviving the Future lays out a compelling and powerfully different new economics for a post-growth world. One that relies not on taut competitiveness and eternally increasing productivityputting the grim into realitybut on the play, humor, conversation, and reciprocal obligations of a rich culture. Building on a remarkable breadth of intellectual and cultural heritagefrom Keynes to Kumar, Homer to Huxley, Mumford to MacIntyre, Scruton to Shiva, Shakespeare to SchumacherFleming describes a world in which, as he says, there will be time for music.

This is the world that many of us want to live in, yet we are told it is idealistic and unrealistic. With an evident mastery of both economic theory and historical precedent, Fleming shows that it is not only desirable, but actually the only system with a realistic claim to longevity. With friendliness, humor, and charm, Surviving the Future plucks this vision out of our daydreams and shows us how to make it real.

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Weight: 454g
Dimensions: 153 x 229mm
Publication Date: 28 Jul 2016
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Co
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781603586467

About David FlemingShaun Chamberlin

Dr. David Fleming (1940 2010) was a visionary thinker and writer who played significant roles in the genesis of the UK Green Party the Transition Towns movement and the New Economics Foundation as well as chairing the Soil Association. He was also one of the early whistle-blowers on oil depletion and designer of the influential TEQs carbon/energy rationing system. He read Modern History at Trinity College Oxford and later earned an MBA and then an MSc and PhD in economics (in 1988). These enabled him to better engage with and confound the mainstream in support of his true passion and genius: understanding that diverse and mysterious thing community. Lean Logic was the work of over thirty years. Shaun Chamberlin has been involved with the Transition Network since its inception co-founding Transition Town Kingston and authoring the movements second book The Transition Timeline. He was also one of Extinction Rebellions first arrestees chair of the Ecological Land Co-operative and has spoken at venues ranging from Occupy camps to national parliaments. In exploring the cultural narratives charting societys course he has written and edited diverse publications including bringing his late mentor David Fleming's lifework Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It to posthumous publication and creating from it the paperback Surviving the Future: Culture Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy. He is also a consulting scholar at Sterling College and lead writer of the film The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? His website is www.darkoptimism.org. Rob Hopkins is a cofounder of Transition Town Totnes and Transition Network and the author of From What Is to What If? The Power of Just Doing Stuff The Transition Handbook and The Transition Companion. In 2012 he was voted one of the Independents top 100 environmentalists and was on Nesta and the Observers list of Britains 50 New Radicals. Hopkins has also appeared on BBC Radio 4s Four Thought and A Good Read in the French film phenomenon Demain and its sequel Apres Demain and has spoken at TEDGlobal and three TEDx events. An Ashoka Fellow Hopkins also holds a doctorate degree from the University of Plymouth and has received two honorary doctorates from the University of the West of England and the University of Namur. He is a keen gardener a founder of New Lion Brewery in Totnes and a director of Totnes Community Development Society the group behind Atmos Totnes an ambitious community-led development project. He blogs at transtionnetwork.org and robhopkins.net and you can find him on Twitter at @robintransition.