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166p. Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down. In Four Futures, Frase imagines how this post-capitalist world might look, deploying the tools of both social science and speculative fiction to explore what communism, rentism, socialism and exterminism might actually entail. Could the current rise of real-life robocops usher in a world that resembles Ender?s Game? And sure, communism will bring an end to material scarcities and inequalities of wealth?but there?s no guarantee that social hierarchies, governed by an economy of ?likes,? wouldn?t rise to take their place. A whirlwind tour through science fiction, social theory and the new technologies already shaping our lives, Four Futures is a balance sheet of the socialisms we may reach if a resurgent Left is successful, and the barbarisms we may be consigned to if those movements fail. Peter Frase International Relation 330 9781781688137 NUML LIBRARY RAWALPINDI (National University of Modern Languages) NUML library is the state of art which equipped “RESEARCH FACILITATION CENTRE” with latest computers for readers to access the digital library of more than 23000 research journals and 130000 online books and E-Library of NUML-Rawalpindi. 330 10001412 20289 2022-07-06 16:02:45 2022-07-06 16:02:45 machine generated