{"product_id":"surviving-the-future-culture-carnival-and-capital-in-the-aftermath-of-the-market-economy-9781603586467","title":"Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSurviving the Future\u003c\/em\u003e is a story drawn from the fertile ground of the late David Fleming's extraordinary \u003cem\u003eLean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It\u003c\/em\u003e. That hardback consists of four hundred and four interlinked dictionary entries, inviting readers to choose their own path through its radical vision.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecognizing that \u003cem\u003eLean Logic\u003c\/em\u003e's sheer size and unusual structure can be daunting, Fleming's long-time collaborator Shaun Chamberlin has selected and edited one of these potential narratives to create \u003cem\u003eSurviving the Future\u003c\/em\u003e. The content, rare insights, and uniquely enjoyable writing style remain Fleming's, but are presented here at a more accessible paperback-length and in conventional read-it-front-to-back format.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe subtitle--\u003cem\u003eCulture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy\u003c\/em\u003e--hints at Fleming's vision. He believed that the market economy will not survive its inherent flaws beyond the early decades of this century, and that its failure will bring great challenges, but he did not dwell on this: \"We know what we need to do. We need to build the sequel, to draw on inspiration which has lain dormant, like the seed beneath the snow.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSurviving the Future\u003c\/em\u003e lays out a compelling and powerfully different new economics for a post-growth world. One that relies not on taut competitiveness and eternally increasing productivity--\"putting the grim into reality\"--but on the play, humor, conversation, and reciprocal obligations of a rich culture. Building on a remarkable breadth of intellectual and cultural heritage--from Keynes to Kumar, Homer to Huxley, Mumford to MacIntyre, Scruton to Shiva, Shakespeare to Schumacher--Fleming describes a world in which, as he says, \"there will be time for music.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is the world that many of us want to live in, yet we are told it is idealistic and unrealistic. With an evident mastery of both economic theory and historical precedent, Fleming shows that it is not only desirable, but actually the only system with a realistic claim to longevity. With friendliness, humor, and charm, \u003cem\u003eSurviving the Future\u003c\/em\u003e plucks this vision out of our daydreams and shows us how to make it real.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHopkins, Rob:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eRob Hopkins is the co-founder of Transition Town Totnes and of the Transition Network. His work in the Transition movement grew out of many years experience in education, teaching permaculture and natural building, and setting up the first two-year full-time permaculture course in the world, as well as co-ordinating the first eco-village development in Ireland to be granted planning permission. He is author of\u003cem\u003eThe Transition Handbook\u003c\/em\u003e(2008), \u003cem\u003eThe Transition Companion\u003c\/em\u003e(2011), \u003cem\u003eThe Power of Just Doing Stuff\u003c\/em\u003e(2013) and\u003cem\u003e21 Stories of Transition\u003c\/em\u003e(2015), served 3 years as a Trustee of the Soil Association, and was named by the Independent as one of the UK s top 100 environmentalists. He lives in Devon and grows food for his family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFleming, David:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \"\u003cp\u003eDr. David Fleming (1940 - 2010) was a visionary thinker and writer who played significant roles in the genesis of the UK Green Party, the Transition Towns movement, and the New Economics Foundation, as well as chairing the Soil Association. He was also one of the early whistle-blowers on oil depletion and designer of the influential TEQs carbon\/energy rationing system. He read Modern History at Trinity College, Oxford, and later earned an MBA and then an MSc and PhD in economics (in 1988). These enabled him to better engage with and confound the mainstream, in support of his true passion and genius: understanding that diverse and mysterious thing \"community.\" \u003cem\u003eLean Logic\u003c\/em\u003e was the work of over thirty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHopkins, Rob:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eRob Hopkins is a cofounder of Transition Town Totnes and Transition Network, and the author of \u003cem\u003eFrom What Is to What If?\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Power of Just Doing Stuff\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Transition Handbook\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Transition Companion\u003c\/em\u003e. In 2012 he was voted one of the \u003cem\u003eIndependent\u003c\/em\u003e's top 100 environmentalists and was on Nesta and the \u003cem\u003eObserver\u003c\/em\u003e's list of Britain's 50 New Radicals. Hopkins has also appeared on BBC Radio 4's \u003cem\u003eFour Thought\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA Good Read\u003c\/em\u003e, in the French film phenomenon \u003cem\u003eDemain\u003c\/em\u003e and its sequel \u003cem\u003eApres Demain\u003c\/em\u003e, and has spoken at TEDGlobal and three TEDx events. An Ashoka Fellow, Hopkins also holds a doctorate degree from the University of Plymouth and has received two honorary doctorates from the University of the West of England and the University of Namur. He is a keen gardener, a founder of New Lion Brewery in Totnes, and a director of Totnes Community Development Society, the group behind Atmos Totnes, an ambitious, community-led development project. He blogs at transtionnetwork.org and robhopkins.net, and you can find him on Twitter at @robintransition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEt al...\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Chelsea Green Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50900130070802,"sku":"9781603586467","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0f8acce7-56e4-43ab-bda1-e9f0fcccb6fa.jpg?v=1738375797","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/surviving-the-future-culture-carnival-and-capital-in-the-aftermath-of-the-market-economy-9781603586467","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}