Inventing the Future (revised and updated edition): Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

A major new manifesto for the end of capitalism

Neoliberalism isn’t working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite.

Inventing the Future is a bold new manifesto for life after capitalism. Against the confused understanding of our high-tech world by both the right and the left, this book claims that the emancipatory and future-oriented possibilities of our society can be reclaimed. Instead of running from a complex future, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams demand a postcapitalist economy capable of advancing standards, liberating humanity from work and developing technologies that expand our freedoms.

This new edition includes a new chapter where they respond to their various critics.

• Platform Capitalism (Theory Redux)
• Four Futures: Life After Capitalism (Jacobin)
• Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
• Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
• Fully Automated Luxury Communism
• #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader
• K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher
• Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left
• Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
• Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism