Description
Featured as the Guardian Book of the Day: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jan/25/everything-must-change-review-avila-horvat-chomsky-zizek-covid-conversations-future Excerpt published on Lit Hub: https://www.orbooks.com/2020/11/do-global-financial-crises-inevitably-reinforce-capitalism-a-conversation-between-maja-kantar-and-the-late-david-graeber-everything-must-change-excerpt-published-on-lit-hub/ Articles with contributors featured in the New York Times, the New Yorker, New York Magazine, TIME, the Nation, the New Republic, the New Statesman, and elsewhere. Interviews with contributors on Morning Joe, Bloomberg, Channel 4 News, Democracy Now!, Useful Idiots with Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper, Under the Skin with Russell Brand, and elsewhere.
About the Author
Renata Avila is a Guatemalan international human rights lawyer and author. She co-founded and is a Council member of the Progressive International and is a member of DiEM25's Coordinating Collective. She also co-founded the Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms. An expert in digital rights, she studies the politics of data, the evolution of transparency, and their implications on trade, democracy, and society, highlighting a phenomenon she describes as digital colonialism. Srecko Horvat is a philosopher born in Croatia (former Yugoslavia) in 1983. He has published over a dozen books, most recently After the Apocalypse (Polity Press, 2021) and Poetry from the Future (Penguin, 2019) and has been active in various social movements. He was one of the founders of the Subversive Festival in Zagreb and is a co-founder of DiEM25.
Reviews
"The left's big beasts tackle a post-pandemic future" - featured as the Observer Book of the Day "A pick'n'mix of intellectual stimulation, provocation and inquiry." - recommended by Matthew d'Ancona in Tortoise "An adventurous proposal to seize the Covid-19 crises as, in the words of Saskia Sassen, 'an invitation to think.'" - reviewed in Modern Times Review "Surveillance capitalism and the role social media plays in disinformation" - contributor Shoshana Zuboff interviewed on Morning Joe "Prominent commentators from around the world weigh progressive possibilities in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic" - featured on Climate & Capitalism's Ecosocialist Bookshelf "An urgent new collection of dialogues" - reviewed by OpEd News
Book Information
ISBN 9781682193051
Author Renata Avila
Format Paperback
Page Count 332
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Publisher OR Books