The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence
by Sebastian Mallaby; · 30 Mar 2026 · 607pp · 161,998 words
to watch over DeepMind’s progress. With that attempt at oversight stillborn, Suleyman in particular resolved to create an alternative arrangement. He imagined a novel, post-capitalist form of governance: one that might balance the drastic tensions in the era of AI, when the imperatives of profit, existential risk, and social justice
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a global interest company. Nobody would profit from this enterprise. The global interest company would be managed with capitalist intensity but its impact would be post-capitalist. Hoffman had recently sold LinkedIn to Microsoft: His personal net worth stood at $3.8 billion. He was an unabashed idealist, proclaiming that he aimed
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wrap nonprofit governance around powerful AI. OpenAI existed as a nonprofit but needed some capitalist machinery to raise money. Both saw salvation in a capitalist/post-capitalist hybrid. Like Hassabis and Suleyman, OpenAI’s leaders were discovering that restructuring talks led quickly to quarrels. A month or so into the discussions, OpenAI
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Google absorbed DeepMind Health, it shuttered the Independent Review Panel that had watched over its work. After less than three years, Suleyman’s experiment in post-capitalist transparency had been consigned to the dustbin of history. The dispiriting truth was that Pichai had good reason to close the review panel. Even though
Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
by Adam Greenfield · 29 May 2017 · 410pp · 119,823 words
been picked up and extended in recent years by authors like Rifkin, Mason, Srnicek and Williams, in their reflections on the shape of an emergent post-capitalist order. From the shadowy Satoshi Nakamoto to Nick Szabo to Vitalik Buterin, the inventors of the blockchain overtly intended to erode statism and central administration
Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion
by Gareth Stedman Jones · 24 Aug 2016 · 964pp · 296,182 words
resolutely modernist and anti-Romantic in tone. They were of a piece with his critique of political economy, and his identification of socialism with a post-capitalist future, which would be heralded by a revolt of the new industrial working class. But in the 1868 letter he modified his judgement: ‘The first
Let them eat junk: how capitalism creates hunger and obesity
by Robert Albritton · 31 Mar 2009 · 273pp · 93,419 words
of capital. I am not suggesting doing away with markets and corporations, but rather with making them democratically accountable in ways that some might consider post-capitalist. Further, given that food is a basic necessity and that its production brings us into close contact with the earth, failures in this sector may
Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia
by Dariusz Jemielniak · 13 May 2014 · 312pp · 93,504 words
, 362–373. Dreyfus, H. L., & Rabinow, P. (1983). Michel Foucault: Beyond structuralism and hermeneutics (2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Drucker, P. F. (1993). Post-capitalist society (1st ed.). New York: Harper Business. Du Gay, P. (2007). Organizing identity: Persons and organizations “after theory.” Los Angeles: Sage. Du Gay, P. (Ed
Alternatives to Capitalism
by Robin Hahnel and Erik Olin Wright · 167pp · 50,652 words
history, achieves a rare degree of depth and thoroughness. Important points of disagreement emerge. These concern, among other things, the level of detail to which post-capitalist visions should aspire, the future of markets, and whether a revolutionary strategy has a credible role to play in anti-capitalist politics. Readers will have
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economy—could exist in which markets have been completely replaced by participatory planning. While he acknowledges that the actual design of economic institutions in a post-capitalist participatory economy will evolve through experimentation and democratic deliberation, he nevertheless argues that the goal should be the complete elimination of markets, and his hypothesis
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, formulation of plans for specific projects, etc. Participatory planning of public goods—at the neighborhood level and beyond—will be a critical feature of a post-capitalist, democratic-egalitarian economy, especially because it is likely that the balance between private and public consumption will shift considerably in the public direction. Planning such
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disagreement. In particular we share a common critique of capitalism, a common understanding of the central values we would like to see realised in a post-capitalist society, and a common commitment to progressive reform within capitalism as a necessary part of the (possible) transformation beyond capitalism. Within this context of such
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of “new games” rooted in cooperative values and some of these in fact were reasonably enjoyable, at least to some people.5 Perhaps in a post-capitalist world with a participatory economy, people will abandon competitive sports just as Robin hopes that they will completely abandon markets. But it is also possible
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from justice in the name of efficiency (see my discussion below of the problem of innovation). 3Contrary to what some people argue, sustainability of a post-capitalist democratic-egalitarian economic system of the sort proposed by Robin would not require that it generate high rates of economic growth (unless, of course, it
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, could be “non-reformist.” Either it “heightens” some internal contradiction and thereby undermines the system, or it “prefigures” a solution that is part of a post-capitalist system. I think any who believes in non-reformist reforms for the first reason is chasing a myth. On the other hand, I think the
Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World
by Matt Alt · 14 Apr 2020
any one lesson to learn from the heroes of the stories that unfolded in these pages, it is that the way out of the strange post-capitalist techno-political hellscape we find ourselves in is to create. Take the COVID-19 epidemic, which profoundly disrupted public life beginning in early 2020. As
The Problem With Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
by Kathi Weeks · 8 Sep 2011 · 350pp · 110,764 words
work and reiteration of its traditional values have yet to be fully reckoned with. SOCIALIST MODERNIZATION The utopia of modernization constitutes the characterization of a post-capitalist alternative most popularly ascribed to Marxism. In this vision, communism is equated with the full realization of the productive potential of the forces of production
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shaped by it. As another autonomist theorist, Harry Cleaver, reads Marx, “to speak of postcapitalist ‘useful labour’ is as problematic as to speak of the post-capitalist state” (2000, 129).5 Again, the problem is that this affirmation of labor—in this case, the useful work of particular individuals—reinforces one of
Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead
by Kenneth Rogoff · 27 Feb 2025 · 330pp · 127,791 words
bancor has come to realization is in the United Federation of Planets’ “credits” in Gene Rodenberry’s television series Star Trek. The series paints a post-capitalist, utopian socialist future; for the series’ intensely committed fan base, the world of Star Trek is almost reality.4 And before one of them writes
Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
by Wolfgang Streeck · 1 Jan 2013 · 353pp · 81,436 words
had mutated into a politically regulated and essentially crisis-free economic machinery. Under fascism and state socialism as well as the New Deal, the three post-capitalist economic systems, the primacy of politics had succeeded the old primacy of economics and had thereby overcome the crisis tendencies inherent in the original, chaotically
The Cold War: A World History
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Speaking Code: Coding as Aesthetic and Political Expression
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An Optimist's Tour of the Future
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Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
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The Global Auction: The Broken Promises of Education, Jobs, and Incomes
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Mythology of Work: How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself
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The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-First Century
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Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy
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Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
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Masters of Management: How the Business Gurus and Their Ideas Have Changed the World—for Better and for Worse
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The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything
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Where We Are: The State of Britain Now
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Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life
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Ayn Rand Cult
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The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
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Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
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Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America
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