Imagining Radical Futures
Inspired by Hannah Proctor's new work, Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat, we present books that radically imagine what our futures could look like.
In this moment of environmental breakdown, surging far-right politics, and economic crisis, we need utopian and radical visions of society more than ever. This is not escapist wishful thinking but a reimagining of society as one that values people over profits, that rules democratically and collectively, and that provides for the needs of all.
Inspired by Hannah Proctor's new book, Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat, we have curated a list of works that offer hope in the face of despair and collective political "burnout". From this, we can build the future we deserve.
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Introducing Hannah Proctor's powerful new book, drawing inspiration from revolutionaries and activists of the past.
"Hannah Proctor is one of the best writers on the left today, and this is an extraordinary and extremely timely book – a kaleidoscopic work of revolutionary history on what happens when our day doesn’t come and we have to cope with the consequences. Refusing both the easy temptations of left melancholia and forced ‘just another push, comrades!’ optimism, this is a book full of unromantic communist longing, deadpan humour and hard-won wisdom." - Owen Hatherley, author of The Ministry of Nostalgia
Here, we pair her work with books that reimagine what our futures could look like:
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