As authors Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass argue in their thrilling and provocative new book, we must humbly accept that humanity cannot fully understand or control the earth—but we can plan new energy systems, large-scale rewilding, and food production for the common good.
Here the authors present their Five Book Plan for imagining a utopian eco-socialist future – or a future at all.
Due to Ted Cruz's recent decision to use his platform to boost some excellent books, including Alex Vitale's The End of Policing, we decided to build a list of 10 books Ted would also hate.
Half-Earth Socialism is a provocative, brilliant, beguiling little book that works in the best Marxist utopian tradition: bringing the scientific mind’s clear-eyed analysis together with the heart’s world of imagination and what-might-be.
A Verso roundtable on Ariella Aïsha Azoulay's Potential History, discussing imperial knowledge, history, art, the possibility of repairing devastated worlds, and above all: what can a radical practice of history look like?
