Futures and Fabulations returns! There's been a pause for, well, LIFE. (you get it) But! I'm very happy to ask you back to my place to talk books, eat food, drink drinks, talk pollitics AND watch a move for a special occasion, my birthday! And spring has sprung so this will happily will take place in the backyard again now that the weather is inviting.
We are screening TRIANGLE OF SADNESS. A film by one of my very favourite directors, Ruben Östlund. As minimally described by IMDB "A fashion model celebrity couple join an eventful cruise for the super-rich." So much more than that. So much more catharsis. Trailer posted in this thread. I would describe it more as an anti-elite revenge thriller with art film complications.
I will be making dinner for everyone, AND music and dancing after. I would love you to come! Stu said he would DJ!
Love to see you! It's been crazy as f year, love to chat to you about it, or just dance xxx
And our books:
This month we'll be diving into the historical and contemporary exploitative practices carried out in the name of technological progress
Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant An easy to read historical journey through the events that shaped the 19th-century Luddite rebellion. The book reframes it not as backwards resistance to progress, but as an uprising against the brutal and dehumanizing effects of industrial automation. Merchant traces how English textile workers organized to destroy the machines that were destroying their livelihoods and expertise, and draws parallels between the early textile factory owners and today's silicon valley entrepeners who’s tech distrupts communities and livelihoods with little regard to the workers affected.
Temporary by Hilary Leichter
A surreal and darkly comic novel following a young woman navigating the precarious world of temporary employment, taking on increasingly bizarre assignments that blur the boundaries between work and identity. Through absurdist scenarios that serve as comedic allegories for real gig work experiences—from the pirates requiring time cards and an NDA to the human barnacle enabling the success of it’s host—Leichter explores the psychological toll of economic uncertainty and the search for meaning in an era of endless gig work.
These books form a dialogue across centuries about labor, technology, and human agency. While Blood in the Machine excavates the historical roots of worker resistance to technological disruption, Temporary captures the contemporary lived experience of economic precarity that these disruptions have helped create.Together, they illuminate how human dignity is effaced under laissez-faire capitalism's logic of endless optimization.. The Luddites faced the destruction of their livelihoods in the name of technological efficiency; Temporary's protagonist confronts the erosion of meaning itself under gig economy precarity.”
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