Navigating the Polycrisis: Mapping the Futures of Capitalism and the Earth

Albert, Michael J.

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2024-04-23
  • 售價: $1,710
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,625
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 312
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 0262547759
  • ISBN-13: 9780262547758
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商品描述

An innovative work of realism and utopianism that analyzes the possible futures of the world-system and helps us imagine how we might transition beyond capitalism.

The world-system of which we are all a part faces multiple calamities: climate change and mass extinction, the economic and existential threat of AI, the chilling rise of far-right populism, and the invasion of Ukraine, to name only a few. In Navigating the Polycrisis, Michael Albert seeks to illuminate how the "planetary polycrisis" will disrupt the global community in the coming decades and how we can best meet these challenges. Albert argues that we must devote more attention to the study of possible futures and adopt transdisciplinary approaches to do so. To provide a new form of critical futures analysis, he offers a theoretical framework--planetary systems thinking--that is informed by complexity theory, world-systems theory, and ecological Marxism.

Navigating the Polycrisis builds on existing work on climate futures and the futures of capitalism and makes three main contributions. First, the book brings together modeling projections with critical social theory in a more systematic way than has been done so far. Second, the book shows that in order to grasp the complexity of the planetary polycrisis, we must analyze the convergence of crises encompassing the climate emergency, the structural crisis of global capitalism, net energy decline, food system disruption, pandemic risk, far-right populism, and emerging technological risks (e.g. in the domains of artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and nuclear weapons). And third, the book contributes to existing work on postcapitalist futures by analyzing the processes and mechanisms through which egalitarian transitions beyond capitalism might occur.

A much-needed work of global futures studies, Navigating the Polycrisis brings together the rigor of the natural and social sciences and speculative imagination informed by science fiction to forge pathways to our possible global future.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

《航向多重危機》是一本結合現實主義和烏托邦主義的創新作品,分析了世界體系的可能未來,幫助我們想像如何超越資本主義的轉型。

我們所處的世界體系面臨著多重災難:氣候變化和物種滅絕、人工智慧的經濟和存在威脅、極右翼民粹主義的嚇人崛起以及對烏克蘭的入侵,這只是其中幾個例子。在《航向多重危機》中,邁克爾·阿爾伯特試圖闡明「地球多重危機」將如何在未來幾十年中破壞全球社會,以及我們如何最好地應對這些挑戰。阿爾伯特主張,我們必須更多關注對可能未來的研究,並採取跨學科的方法來進行研究。為了提供一種新的批判性未來分析形式,他提出了一個理論框架——行星系統思維,該框架受到復雜性理論、世界體系理論和生態馬克思主義的啟發。

《航向多重危機》在現有的氣候未來和資本主義未來研究基礎上做出了三個主要貢獻。首先,本書以比迄今為止更系統的方式將建模預測與批判性社會理論結合起來。其次,本書顯示,為了理解地球多重危機的復雜性,我們必須分析包括氣候緊急情況、全球資本主義的結構危機、淨能量下降、食品系統破壞、疫情風險、極右翼民粹主義以及新興技術風險(例如人工智慧、生物技術和核武器領域)在內的危機匯聚。第三,本書通過分析實現超越資本主義的平等轉型的過程和機制,為現有的後資本主義未來研究做出了貢獻。

《航向多重危機》是一本急需的全球未來研究作品,它將自然科學和社會科學的嚴謹性與受科幻小說啟發的推測想像力結合起來,為我們可能的全球未來開辟道路。

作者簡介

Michael J. Albert is Lecturer in Global Environmental Politics at the University of Edinburgh.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Michael J. Albert 是愛丁堡大學全球環境政治學講師。