Poetry from the Future: Why a Global Liberation Movement Is Our Civilisation’s Last Chance [1st ed.] 9780141987705, 0241337321, 9780241337325

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Poetry from the Future: Why a Global Liberation Movement Is Our Civilisation’s Last Chance [1st ed.]
 9780141987705,  0241337321,  9780241337325

Table of contents :

A Letter to the Future
PROLOGUE
The First Sound from Occupied Europe

PART ONE The Sounds of Occupation
1. Summer in Hamburg: Back to the Future
2. The Circle of Machinic Enslavement
3. It’s the End of the World (as We Know It …)
4. The Leftovers in Europe
5. Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again!
INTERLUDE
Auschwitz on the Beach?

PART TWO The Sounds of Liberation
6. Summer in Athens: Hope without Optimism
7. Islands Outside Capitalism?
8. Mamma Mia! There Are No Islands Any More
9. For a Global Liberation Movement
10. Poetry from the Future
Notes
Soundtrack – There Is No Liberation without Music
Acknowledgements – There Is No Book without Comrades
Index

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