Brilliant game designer and friend , working with and , created a role-playing game about climate change and grief, as sea levels rise and coastal towns must make hard choices. Go play it! Information here: edgeryders.eu/t/a-town-by-th
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Great thread on indigenous #sciencefiction. Now all I need is to find its subset with #economics in it.
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Don't wanna watch the colonial glorifying blue people movie? Check out these sci-fi films by actual Indigenous people telling our own stories instead. 
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Beautiful, thoughtful writeup on the world of Octavia Butler with interactive visualizations: nytimes.com/interactive/20 #sciencefiction
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Interesting parallel between Iain Banks's Culture Series and Europe in the 1400s, when the Black Death provoked a labour scarcity and ushered in a golden age of low poverty, abundant free time and plenty of parties. At 26'00:
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Podcast of a super fun panel on Science Fiction Economics I took part in, during a festival of economics in Norway. We discussed utopias/dystopias, real-life sci-fi economics (they exist) and why goblin banks in "Harry Potter" make no… mastodon.green/@alberto_cotti
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Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, 🐘edgeryders@mastodon.green and I have been working on an open source, science-fictional world running on economic systems other than late-stage capitalism. To make it believable, we had to invent our own social… mastodon.green/@alberto_cotti
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This was the inspiration for The Covenant: witness.scifieconomicslab.net/witnesspedia/d
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#9yrsago "What modern-day social innovators can learn from the life and times of St. Benedict". Reminded of this by @Gina_labs. edgeryders.eu/t/unhagiograph
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In Stavanger, Norway, to discuss Sci-Fi Economics at the Kåkånomics Festival. With , , , and Karl Kristian Bambini. kknomics.no/program/sci-fi
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In Stavanger, Norway, to discuss Sci-Fi Economics at the Kåkånomics Festival. With , , , and Karl Kristian Bambini. kknomics.no/program/sci-fi
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That would be us :-)
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Replying to @LauraLoHorn @Santolini_J and 2 others
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( @alberto_cottica @edgeryders does a “science fiction economics book club” and has a science fiction economics lab (!) scifieconomics.world — as I understand it, a kind of anthropocene economic theory R&D through speculative fiction experiment. Supercool)
( @alberto_cottica @edgeryders does a “science fiction economics book club” and has a science fiction economics lab (!) scifieconomics.world — as I understand it, a kind of anthropocene economic theory R&D through speculative fiction experiment. Supercool)1
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That novel by needs an entry on our wiki! Everyone welcome to contribute, on any work of econ - scifi that you think we need to know about. It's a wiki, eh :-) edgeryders.eu/t/econ-sf-a-se
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Sci-fi economics sightings: some interesting things that are brewing. A chapter on Le Guin by @g_kallis (I know, I am late to the party), a new solarpunk-ish "fragile utopia" by @R_Emrys and @doctorow's next novel. edgeryders.eu/t/sci-fi-econo cc @SciFiEconomics
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Sci-fi economics sightings: some interesting things that are brewing. A chapter on Le Guin by (I know, I am late to the party), a new solarpunk-ish "fragile utopia" by and 's next novel. edgeryders.eu/t/sci-fi-econo cc
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In this video at #futuresconference2022 explains what the (science-fictional) floating megacity of Witness has in common with scenario practice in foresight studies.
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Witness is a future floating megacity on Earth. Its dwellers have created several Distrikts, with distinct economic systems: social democracy on steroids, coop- and commons-based, hypercapitalist, monastic... discusses it at #futuresconference2022.
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.@SciFiEconomics maintains a wiki of works and authors of economic science ficion. Latest update: entries on Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Ministry for the Future" and @yanisvaroufakis's "Another Now". edgeryders.eu/t/econ-sf-a-se
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Indeed, the stories are delightful. Also, we plan to make more: edgeryders.eu/t/witness-in-s
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A project I really enjoyed last year - a commission from @edgeryders
to write a short sci-fi story, set in a floating, open source, post-capitalist world, as part of @SciFiEconomics Lab. Give it (and the other stories) a read if you have a minute!
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What @davidgraeber and David Wengrow's "The Dawn of Everything" has in common with science fiction economics: edgeryders.eu/t/what-david-g
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We are the Sci-Fi Economics Lab. Inspired by science fiction, we nurture and support new, radical ways to think about the economy and econ policy
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A reader asked what novels or films I think portray engagement with our transapocalyptic realities instead of just rehashing postapocalyptic tropes.
I've been meaning to write a piece on this for ages, but here are a few suggestions to get going.
Completely subjective.
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That’s why we need you! Help us map the landscape of Southeast Asian science fiction across different mediums by filling out this survey on published Southeast Asian science fiction works! We'll be collecting responses until 1 April 2022.
bit.ly/SEASciFiData
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I conclude my catch-up on everything #KimStanleyRobinson and the Ministry for the Future, with even more interviews (including and ), podcasts, reviews and "inspired by" articles!... kimstanleyrobinson.info/content/minist
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Look, someone is trying to build Libria!
Saudi Arabia wants to build a green linear city in the desert. Its legal code will be "drafted by investors".
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new fiction by me for @NoemaMag: what happens when NFTs, the metaverse, speculative finance, and predictive policing collide noemamag.com/line-go-up
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We are looking to organize a book club on works of economically inclined science fiction, in collaboration with Are We Europe and the podcast Europarama by . First up: "Another Now" by . Would you be interested?
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"My book is a blueprint for how a technologically advanced society could use markets without being capitalistic. That means abolishing the labour and he financial market." discusses his novel with and
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The latest IPCC report has an implication for tech policy: innovation is now redundant. There is no time for development and massive uptake of new technologies. Decarbonization will happen with off-the-shelf tech, or won't happen at all. Refocus innovation onto economic models.
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. maintains a wiki of works and authors of economic science ficion. Latest update: entries on Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Ministry for the Future" and 's "Another Now". edgeryders.eu/t/econ-sf-a-se
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So much fun. I contributed a story, "the Winged Woman" to ' giant floating city of Witness, which is part of its lab. I was exploring technology, migration & access to healthcare 👇🏿
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Thank you everyone who participated in the event today. The work continues! For now, enjoy some short #WitnessScifi stories: start.edgeryders.eu/project/witnes
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It's tomorrow, people! Book club meeting about KSR's novel "The Ministry for the Future", plotting a path from here to bringing climate change back under control, and deeply changing the economy as a condition for victory. Info here: edgeryders.eu/t/the-ministry
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Next Thursday: book club on Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Ministry for the Future". made some initial, absolutely tentative and nonbinding, discussion points: edgeryders.eu/t/the-ministry
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Looking forward to the upcoming book club on Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Ministry for the Future". made some initial, absolutely tentative and nonbinding, discussion points: edgeryders.eu/t/the-ministry
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Can't think of anything. But then again, stories about race in speculative fiction are often transfigured into stories about species: vampires, aliens etc.
A great story about "race" in this sense is "Thirteen" by Richard K. Morgan. He is British, don't know if he is black. t.co/DkuLHkUIBC
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... and coming from you, Malka, that's a REAL compliment! Let us know if we can help.
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Replying to @typicalrussian3
the whole @SciFiEconomics is great - looking forward to assigning some of this stuff to my predictive fictions next semester!
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We are organizing a book club on 's "The Ministry for the Future". Many of us are interested in the economics of the novel. Everyone invited: edgeryders.eu/t/the-ministry
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Call for solarpunk art: medium.com/@yishan/solarp. Good initiative, we do kind of the same for economics + sci-fi stories, like edgeryders.eu/t/the-scifi-ec
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I do not believe in 1.5°C anymore. Nor do I believe in 2° C. The game from now is adaptation, even deep adaptation. To tool up, here is a free book with an emphasis on the global south:
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This looks very promising indeed – especially part 3. CC
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This month marks the publication of "The Actual Star," a new, wildly ambitious, wildly successful novel by @monicabyrne13, spanning 3,000 years of history from the ancient Maya to a distant future.
harpervoyagerbooks.com/book/978006300
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Calling sci-fi authors! We are looking to commission a few short stories. They should be set in the floating city of Witness, an open source world we started working on in 2020. Apply with your extant work. More info here:
edgeryders.eu/t/the-scifi-ec
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