Inventing the Future: 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)
• Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
• Four Futures: Life After Capitalism (Jacobin)
• #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader
• Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?
• Fully Automated Luxury Communism
• The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
• Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism
• Xenofeminism (Theory Redux)
• The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work