Economic Science Fictions

Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction to Economic Science Fictions -- Challenging the Market -- Wither Utopias? -- Why 'Economic Science Fictions'? -- I The Science and Fictions of the Economy -- 1 Economics, Science Fiction, History and Comparative Studies -- 2 Future Incorporated? -- The Social Fiction of the Corporation -- The Social Science Fiction of the Corporation -- Beyond Corporations -- 'Real Utopias': Cooperation rather than Corporation -- Concluding Reflections -- 3 Currencies of Social Organisation -- 4 Automating Economic Revolution -- II Capitalist Dystopias -- 5 'Feeding Like a Parasite' -- Introduction -- Defining Extraction -- Extraction and Digital Technology -- Corporeal Extraction and Social Reproduction -- Environmental Extraction and Dystopia -- Conclusion: Extraction and Utopia -- 6 Pain Camp Economics -- Rise of the CorpoNation -- Holo Accords -- The Aiholo -- Pain ©Amp -- 7 AT392-Red -- 8 The New Black -- 9 Fatberg and the Sinkholes: A Report on the Findings of a Journey into the United Regions of England by PostRational -- Fatberg -- Sinkhole -- Foreword -- To the United Regions of England -- Objectives and Methodology -- Why? -- What? -- When? -- Where? -- How? -- Prototypical Hypothesis -- 1 London's insatiable capacity for growth pushed against the constraints of the system -- 2 London was kicked out, and the URE was formed, as a reaction to its insatiability -- 3 The URE has set out, driven by necessity and opportunity, to do things differently -- In short, we think this -- Welcome to Absorbism -- Absorbism -- Absorbism, Wrung Out… -- Components of exchange in the new regionalism -- Redundancies of exchange -- Exchanges with people -- Exchanges of transparency -- The Infrastructural