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“Stars of the international left-wing literary circuit feature prominently including Noam Chomsky, Slavok Zizek, Shoshana Zuboff and Yanis Varoufakis.

The cultural figures include British musician Brian Eno, former Pink Floyd front man Roger Waters and Mexican actor and director Gael García Bernal.

Covid-19 permeates all of the conversations with contributors discussing the impact the lockdown is having on their lives, work and world views. Some of the most interesting conversations – with Saskai Sassen, Richard Sennett, Stephanie Keaton – are those that focus on how the pandemic has forced us to rethink how we reorganise our cities, economies and societies.”

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“The author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism believes the expanding empire of technology behemoths poses an existential risk.”

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“I’d like to think that being an artist was, in itself, some form of activism—that it impacted the world in a way that made it better. There’s very little explicit, good political music made. It always comes out as propaganda. I think art works in a much more subtle, organic and holistic way.”

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“In an essay penned shortly before his death, David Graeber argued that post-pandemic, we can’t slip back into a reality where the way our society is organized — to serve every whim of a small handful of rich people while debasing and degrading the vast majority of us — is seen as sensible or reasonable.”

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“Student-loan debt is an enormous, damaging problem in the U.S. The data is staggering: 40 million people are in the hole for $1.6 trillion. Loans are so massive and incongruous with what college graduates actually make that repayment plans stretch into adulthood and beyond. Three million senior citizens are still paying them off. Student-loan debt follows people through life, making it hard for them to buy homes and cars and to start businesses. For people of color, it has helped contribute to the racial wealth gap by keeping families from holding on to their money. Joe Biden knows this. He campaigned on canceling “at least” $10,000 worth of debt for borrowers as soon as he got into office, and on canceling debt totally for borrowers at historic Black colleges and universities — but now that he is actually in the executive seat, Biden is dashing hopes that he will enact the policies that will truly fix the issue.”

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“There is no shortage of books plotting a path out of the pandemic, but what appeals about this collection of essays is its eclecticism, radicalism and readiness to think incautiously. With contributions from writers such as Noam Chomsky, Gael Garcia Bernal, Ece Temelkuran, Slavoj Zizek and Shoshana Zuboff, the anthology is a pick’n’mix of intellectual stimulation, provocation and inquiry – and all the better for it. ”

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“A gathering of influential voices from around the world to weigh in on the progressive possibilities in the wake of COVID-19.”

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“We can have democracy, or we can have a surveillance society, but we cannot have both.”

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“On Building an Internet That Lets Democracy Flourish”

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“Against a return to the normal and, indeed, the notion that there ever was such a thing, these conversations insist that urgent, systemic change is needed to tackle not only the pandemics arising from the human destruction of nature, but also the ceaseless debilitations of contemporary global capitalism.”

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“Conversations featuring the likes of Noam Chomsky, Brian Eno and Slavoj Žižek imagine a more communal world after Covid.”

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