Glasgow Human Rights Network

Friday 4th December, 5.00pm

Sir Charles Wilson Building Lecture Theatre, University of Glasgow

You can listen to this public talk and discussion in our Event recordings section.

We are pleased to invite you to join us for a public seminar with Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams to talk about ideas and demands in their new book, Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work (Verso, 2015).

We live in an era where the greatest mobilisation of people leads to the smallest increment of change, where the future appears to have been cancelled. What is the source of this situation? And what can be done? This talk will analyse the recent cycle of struggles stretching from the anti-globalisation movement to the Occupy movements in order to uncover a common limitation. In its place, this talk will put forth an alternative path forward: one which liberates us from work and which constructs new modes of freedom.

The event is hosted by the Glasgow Human Rights Network with the support of the Socialist Theory and Movements Research Network and the Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies

The event is free and will be followed by a reception.  If you would like to attend, please register on the Eventbrite site.

For more information on the book, visit http://www.versobooks.com/books/1989-inventing-the-future.

 

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First published: 13 November 2014