{"product_id":"another-now-9781612199573","title":"Another Now","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat would a fair and equal society actually look like? The world-renowned economist and bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis presents his radical and subversive answer in a work of speculative fiction that recalls William Morris and William Gibson  The year: 2035.  At a funeral for Iris  a revolutionary leftist feminist  Yango is approached by Costa  Iriss closest comrade  who urges him to carry out Iriss last wish: plough into her secret diaries to tell their story. But  Costa insists leave out anything that might help Big Tech replicate my technologies!  That night Yango delves into Iriss diaries. In them he discovers a chronicle of how Costas revolutionary technologies had unveiled an actually existing  fully democratized  postcapitalist society. Suddenly he understands Costas obsession with the hackers trying to steal his secrets.  So begins Yanis Varoufakiss extraordinary novelistic thought-experiment  where the world-famous economist offers an invigorating and deeply moving vision of an alternative reality.  Another Now tells the story of Costa  a brilliant but deeply disillusioned  computer engineer  who creates a revolutionary technology that will allow the user a glimpse of a life beyond their dreams but will not enslave them. But an accident during one of its trial runs unveils a cosmic wormhole where Costa meets his DNA double  who is living in a 2025 very different than the one Costa is living in.  In this parallel 2025 a global hi-tech uprising  begun in the wake of the collapse of 2008  has birthed a post-capitalist world in which work  money  land  digital networks and politics have been truly democratized. Banks have been eliminated  as well as predatory  data-mining digital monopolies; the gig economy is no more; and the young are free to experiment with different careers and to study non-lucrative topics  from Sumerian pottery to astrophysics.  Intoxicated  Costa travels to England to tell Iris  his old comrade  and her neighbor  Eva  a recovering banker turned neoliberal economics professor  of the parallel universe he has discovered. Costa eventually leads them back to his workshop in America where Iris and Eva meet their own doubles  and confront hard truths about themselves and the daunting political challenge that \"the Other Now\" presents.  But  as their obsession with the Other Now deepens  time begins to run out  as the wormhole begins to deteriorate and hackers begin to unleash new attacks on Costas technology. The trio have to make a choice: which 2025 do they want to live in?  Varoufakis has been claiming for a while that we already live in postcapitalist times. That  since the 2008 crisis  capitalism has been morphing into technofeudalism. Another Now  a riveting work of speculative fiction  shows that there is a realistic  democratic alternative to the technofeudalpostcapitalist dystopia taking shape all around us. It also confronts us with the greatest question: how far are we willing to go to bring it about?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67929548095541,"sku":"ByrdShop_1612199577","price":250.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781612199573.jpg?v=1794197069","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/another-now-9781612199573","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}