Nick Dyer-Witheford on biocommunism, "a communism emerging from the catastrophes capital now inflicts throughout the bios, the realm of life itself".
 
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Shownotes
Nick Dyer-Witheford (University of Western Ontario):
https://www.fims.uwo.ca/people/profiles/nick_dyer-witheford.html

Dyer-Witheford, Nick. 2022. Biocommie: Power and Catastrophe.:
https://projectpppr.org/populisms/biocommie-power-and-catastrophe

PPPR - Platforms, Populisms, Pandemics and Riots (Research Project):
https://projectpppr.org/

Dyer-Witheford, Nick. 2013. Red plenty platforms. Culture Machine 14 (PDF).:
http://svr91.edns1.com/~culturem/index.php/cm/article/view/511/526

Dyer-Witheford, Nick. 2007. Commonism. Turbulence 1:
http://www.turbulence.org.uk/turbulence-1/commonism/index.html

Dyer-Witheford, Nick. 1999. Cyber-Marx: Cycles and circuits of struggle in high-technology capitalism. University of Illinois Press.:
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p067952

Dyer-Witheford, Nick. 2015. Cyber-proletariat: Global labour in the digital vortex. London: Pluto Press. (PDF available):
http://digamo.free.fr/dyerwith.pdf

Dyer-Witheford, Nick, Atle Mikkola Kjøsen, and James Steinhoff. 2019. Inhuman power. Artificial intelligence and the future of capitalism. London: Pluto Press.:
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745338606/inhuman-power/
 

Further Shownotes
Bastani, Aaron. 2019. Fully Automated Luxury Communism. London: Verso.:
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3156-fully-automated-luxury-communism

Helen Hester:
https://www.uwl.ac.uk/staff/helen-hester

Laboria Cuboniks Collective. 2018. The Xenofeminist Manifesto: A Politics for Alienation. London: Verso:
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2887-the-xenofeminist-manifesto

Srnicek, Nick und Alex Williams. 2016. Inventing the Future. London: Verso:
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2315-inventing-the-future

Tooze, Adam. 2021. Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World Economy. New York: Viking.:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/669575/shutdown-by-adam-tooze/

The New Age of Catastrophe - Alex Callinicos's Farewell Lecture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-DTifOGfM4

Negri, Antonio. 2005. Crisis of the Crisis State. Libcom:
https://libcom.org/library/crisis-state-antonio-negri

Terranova, Tiziana. 2009. Another Life: The Nature of Political Economy in Foucault’s Genealogy of Biopolitics., Theory, Culture & Society, 26(6), 234–65.:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0263276409352193

Fraser, Nancy. 2016. Contradictions of Capital and Care. New Left Review 100, 99-117.:
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii100/articles/nancy-fraser-contradictions-of-capital-and-care

Klein, Naomi. 2008. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. New York: Picador.:
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/55595/the-shock-doctrine-by-naomi-klein/9780141024530

Buck, Holly Jean. 2021. Ending fossil fuels: Why net zero is not enough. Verso.:
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3879-ending-fossil-fuels

Cox, Stan. 2013. Any way you slice it: the past, present, and future of rationing. The New Press.:
https://thenewpress.com/books/any-way-you-slice-it

Benanav, Aaron. 2020. Automation and the Future of Work. London: Verso.:
https://www.versobooks.com/books/4029-automation-and-the-future-of-work

Jameson, Fredric. 2016. An American utopia. Dual Power and the Universal Army. London: Verso, 1-96.:
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2118-an-american-utopia

Doctorow, Cory. 2020. Full Employment. Locus Magazine:
https://locusmag.com/2020/07/cory-doctorow-full-employment/

Out of the Woods. 2018. The Uses of Disaster. Commune Magazine: https://communemag.com/the-uses-of-disaster/ 

Out of the Woods. 2020. Hope Against Hope: Writings on Ecological Crisis. New York: Common Notions.:
https://libcom.org/article/hope-against-hope-out