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===== Accelerationism, Ecomodernism and Techno-Utopianism =====

//Much of this literature is quite counter to ecosocialist perspectives and at the extreme presents apologias for capitalism. See **Critiques** below.//

  -Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, //Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility//
  -Robin Mackay and Armen Avanessian, //#Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader//
  -Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams, //Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work//
  -Leigh Phillips, //Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-Porn Addicts: A Defense of Growth, Progress, Industry and Stuff//
  -Paul Mason, //Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future//
  -Aaron Bastani, //[[https://www.versobooks.com/books/2757-fully-automated-luxury-communism|Fully Automated Luxury Communism]]//
  -[[air-conditioning|The Great Air Conditioning Debate]]

==== Critiques ====

  -Rob Wallace, [[http://unevenearth.org/2019/07/redwashing-capital/|”Redwashing Capital: Left tech bros are honing Marx into a capitalist tool”]]
  -[[https://libcom.org/blog/fully-automated-luxury-communism-utopian-critique-14062015|Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Utopian Critique]]
  -Jason Hickel, [[http://climateandcapitalism.com/2018/05/16/the-magical-thinking-of-ecomodernism/|"The Magical Thinking of Ecomodernism"]]
  -//[[http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2017/big-bad-fix/|Big Bad Fix: The Case Against Climate Engineering]]//
  -John Bellamy Foster, [[https://monthlyreview.org/2017/11/01/the-long-ecological-revolution/|"The Long Ecological Revolution"]], critique of //Jacobin//'s "Earth, Wind and Fire" issue
  -[[http://thesimplerway.info/DECOUPLING.htm|Decoupling: The Issue, and Collected Evidence]]
  -David Watson, [[https://radicalarchives.org/2010/09/06/dw-against-the-megamachine/|"Against the Megamachine"]]
  -Kevin Carson, //[[https://c4ss.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/TechnoUtopiaPDF1.pdf|Techno-Utopianism: Counterfeit and Real]]//
  -Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, [[https://photosandnotes.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/jonsson-the-origins-of-cornucopianism.pdf|"The Origins of Cornucopianism: A Preliminary Genealogy"]]
  -Ian Angus, [[http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30961-hijacking-the-anthropocene|"Hijacking the Anthropocene"]]
  -Tom Smith:
    * [[https://dissidentvoice.org/2015/06/the-ecomodernist-myth/|"The Ecomodernist Myth"]]
    * [[https://dark-mountain.net/beyond-the-life-of-the-sun-ecomodernism-and-its-discontents-2/|"Beyond the Life of the Sun: Ecomodernism and its Discontents"]]
  -Anthony Galluzzo:
    * [[http://arcade.stanford.edu/blogs/and-against-machines-beyond-new-jetsonism|"For and Against Machines: Beyond the New Jetsonism"]]
    * [[http://arcade.stanford.edu/blogs/tale-two-prometheuses-ii-against-false-idols-accelerationism|"Against the False Idols of Accelerationism"]]
    * [[http://www.boundary2.org/2017/08/anthony-galluzzo-utopia-as-method-social-science-fiction-and-the-flight-from-reality/|"Utopia as Method"]], a review of Peter Frase, //Four Futures//
  - //[[https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/current-issue/|Science for the People]]// special issue on Geoengineering
  - //[[https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/vol22-1/agua-es-vida-solidarity-science-against-false-climate-change-solutions/|No Comemos Baterías]]//: Solidarity Science Against False Climate Change Solutions (//SftP//)
  - Max Ajl, [[http://unevenearth.org/2019/06/how-much-will-the-us-way-of-life-have-to-change/|"How much will the US Way of Life© have to change? On the future of farming, socialist science, and utopia"]]
  - Discussion and debate on ecosocialism and [[https://climateandcapitalism.com/category/nuclear/|nuclear power]]
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