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Alternatives to Capitalist Structures (June) #41

Closed Frijol closed 5 years ago

Frijol commented 5 years ago

Exploring this subject/prepping June reading group selections. Suggestions & ideas welcome.

Readings

(Checked means someone has read it & can assess value):

Challenging the status quo

Universal Basic Income

Other strategies

Visions from fiction

Quotes & Notes

dcwalk commented 5 years ago

I'n not sure how to best participate on the comment above, should I check the stuff I've read? (A chunk), how do you want suggestions/additions handled?

My sense is that UBI or specific legislation might be too granular to get at some of the broad themes around labour history and "working with the current system" attempts at reforms.

RE: Co-ops, I'd pair reading the 7 principles with some analysis by a cooperative, the Geo piece is nice: http://www.geo.coop/story/cooperative-principles-common-good-and-solidarity Cooperation Jackson is pretty radical

I think some analysis (besides Capital-- ALSO DEAR GOD CAPITAL) that is approachable might be appropriate to get to the point of understanding a broad swath of critiques to the way things are going from widely left traditions. In this vein:

Otherwise my general thought is I think the lense//framing of "post-capitalist" (and how that isn't anti-capitalist, anarcho-etc..., and more) would be good to use, so maybe a reading that actually sets up these different takes?

Authors that inspire me:

dcwalk commented 5 years ago

Visions from Fiction

Frijol commented 5 years ago

I really like all of your ideas. I want to read all of this stuff! I think you're right that in large part we should lean on selections from analyses in order to make the reading list manageable/dive in on smaller passages of closer-to-primary-source materials.

For stuff I've listed that you've read, checkmarks + annotation would be helpful.

I have a lot of reading to do – I'm very interested in this topic but haven't previously taken an academic approach to it

Frijol commented 5 years ago

Status update, here's what I'm currently thinking for the core reading:

Still looking into:

Not-required but great/fun reading:

dcwalk commented 5 years ago

This looks great! Question... what are you hoping to get at with a potluck/potlach selection? (edit: I should read better, reviewed above!) Maybe we could include chapter from Red Skin, White Masks, I was just reccomended the section on Dene nation and self-determination (maybe too far?)

Also, selection from Designs for the Pluriverse or maybe Anita Say Chan's Decolonial Computing article in Catalyst (verry short but great!)

dcwalk commented 5 years ago

Brainwave ~~ what about adrienne marie brown's Emergent Strategy ~~ I really loved it. Something from the first half would be excellent to think about shaping futures and drawing on Black feminist thought! And SF!

Frijol commented 5 years ago

I just read Emergent Strategy (and I'm gonna go see her next week! She's speaking at the Seattle Library) but not sure what part makes sense for this. Something to do with the community she was living in? It would be great to get something out of Octavia's Brood, length-wise, but also don't have a particular story in mind. Or maybe grab a chapter from Walkaway (the one this excerpt comes from? I really loved Brown's emphasis on the importance of SF/the imaginary as integral to future-building and activism and want to incorporate.

I've been meaning to read Red Skin, White Masks– do you happen to have a copy? It's not in my library's digital collection.

Re potluck/potlatch, springs from a conversation with @lightandluck – he was talking about how when you have a potluck, everybody brings a dish, and then at the end.. there are always leftovers! A community of abundance. That, and you're proud if your dish comes home empty. I wanted to tie back to potlatch (apparently it's not clear-cut whether potluck derives from that or not) b/c the principle is similar: the wealthiest is the one who gives the most away. It's a bit more nuanced than that & I'm hoping some of the oral traditions literature gives an entry point that backs up the impressions I have from my Tlingit aunts.

dcwalk commented 5 years ago

For Emergent Strategy: I was thinking two chapters (~40 pages but fairly fast): resilience and creating more possibilities

Frijol commented 5 years ago

Just read that section of Designs for the Pluriverse you linked (so good! Want to read the whole thing but it's not in my library systems :'( ).

For Emergent Strategy I'm a bit worried about overloading people with reading (though that book is a quick read). I do want to make sure we include the bit on p47 on "unlearning socialization"

Altogether, here's how I see our current reading list:

Core readings

Optional readings

That's a total of 113 pages of core reading– most of it not too dense, but not sure what our benchmark is. What do you think?

dcwalk commented 5 years ago

The selection looks awesome. I think there is probably too much to ask folks to get through, the previous two sessions are around ~60 pages core plus optional. Which I think is us trying to keep it down from the previous round.

What if we make Emergent Strategy optional?

Frijol commented 5 years ago

That makes sense! I'll make the PR.

Frijol commented 5 years ago

Another good section (optional? next semester?): Andy Stern Raising the Floor on labor & UBI & the future of work– p171-183 are probably the most relevant

Frijol commented 4 years ago

Now reading Debt by David Graeber, which speaks directly to original alternatives to money, to corporations, to capitalism, and the inception of each of these institutions. The end of Chapter 10 and transition into Chapter 11 (and especially Chapter 11 after the section on Cortez) is most relevant