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A collection of short, speculative fiction from rank-and-file Amazon workers - in print, online, and as a free audiobook and podcast.

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  1. February 4, World After Amazon book event in Lüneburg
    Sep 25, 2024 · original
    There will be a book event celebrating the launch of The World After Amazon: Stories from Amazon Workers in Lüneburg on February 4 as part of the Urban Speculations: Cities, Technologies, Futures conference at the Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University. Details to follow. The post February 4, World After Amazon book event in Lüneburg appeared first on The World After Amazon .
  2. October 26, Toronto launch of The World After Amazon
    Sep 23, 2024 · original
    We will be launching The World After Amazon: Stories from Amazon Workers in Toronto at 6pm 8pm on October 26 at Another Story Bookstore , 315 Roncesvalles Ave. Speakers: Alessandro Delfanti Max Haiven Sarah Olutola Since 1994, Amazon has ‘disrupted’ the worlds of books, consumerism, the internet, and much more. However, while the corporation promotes itself as a beacon of the future, its massive profits come at the expense of workers in its warehouses, on its delivery routes, and throughout its vast empire. They toil to build a future over which they have no control. But what if workers could reclaim the power of the imagination? The World After Amazon , edited by Sarah Olutola, Graeme Webb, Max Haiven and Xenia Benivolski, collects nine short stories by workers along with an introduction and essays by the project’s editors and team. In addition to the print edition, the book will be fre
  3. October 21, “Amazon and the Alien: Corporate Storytelling and Workers’ Science Fiction” at Princeton
    Sep 22, 2024 · original
    As part of his Whitney J. Oates Short-Term Fellowship in the Humanities Council and the Department of English, Dr. Max Haiven will deliver a talk at 4pm in room A17 of the Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building at Princeton University. In 2023, Max Haiven and his team at the Worker as Futurist project held a series of online workshops to support rank-and-file Amazon workers to write short speculative fiction about The World After Amazon . The resulting stories will be published in September 2024. In this presentation, Haiven reflects on what literary activism might mean in the age of “Amazon capitalism.” Taking inspiration from Marc McGurl’s observation that Amazon has radically transformed the way the world reads and the fate of the novel, this presentation explores the “corporate storytelling” that mobilizes the conventions of science fiction to reconcile key structural contradictions, includi
  4. October 16, NYC launch of The World After Amazon
    Sep 22, 2024 · original
    We are pleased to be working with The Word is Change (368 Tompkins Ave. in Brooklyn) to host a launch event for The World After Amazon: Stories from Amazon Workers on the evening of October 16, 2024. The post October 16, NYC launch of The World After Amazon appeared first on The World After Amazon .
  5. October 11, Halifax NS launch of The World After Amazon
    Sep 9, 2024 · original
    Join editor Max Haiven and scholar, poet and activist El Jones in conversation about literary activism to celebrate the launch of The World After Amazon : Stories from Amazon Workers . 5:30 pm, Friday October 11 At The Trident cafe, 1256 Hollis St. Free and open to all. The World After Amazon is a collection of 9 short speculative stories, written by rank-and-file workers at the corporation that has transformed the way we read and so much more. Amazon’s sci-fi propaganda tells the story of a company using cutting-edge technology to deliver a utopia of cheap consumer convenience. But its workers pay the price, toiling in dystopian conditions to create a future that will exclude them. What happens when those workers reclaim the radical imagination and their power to tell their own stories? The World After Amazon can be ordered in print or read or downloaded online for free, and is also ava
  6. September 26, Berlin launch of The World After Amazon
    Aug 16, 2024 · original
    A collection of short, speculative fiction from rank-and-file workers at Amazon… What will the world look like after Amazon? We asked the corporation’s workers… With over 1.6-million employees, Amazon is one of the largest ever corporate empires. But while the company tells a utopian story about its gifts to the world, its workers pay the price, toiling in dystopian conditions of overwork, insecurity and relentless surveillance. As workers’ movements and community groups around the world rise to challenge Amazon’s power, the nine stories in this book, written by rank-and-file Amazon workers, speculate on what the future holds for people and the planet. Join us at 7pm on Thursday, September 26 at LISBETH (Bergstr. 29, 10115 Berlin) for the Berlin launch of THE WORLD AFTER AMAZON. Speakers Max Haiven , Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination and editor and project lead of The Worl
  7. September 15, London UK Launch of The World After Amazon
    Aug 16, 2024 · original
    What will the world look like after Amazon? We asked the corporation’s workers… With over 1.6-million employees, Amazon is one of the largest ever corporate empires. But while the company tells a utopian story about its gifts to the world, its workers pay the price, toiling in dystopian conditions of overwork, insecurity and relentless surveillance. As workers’ movements and community groups around the world rise to challenge Amazon’s power, the nine stories in this book, written by rank-and-file Amazon workers, speculate on what the future holds for people and the planet. For more information, and to read or listen to the collection, visit: https://afteramazon.world/ Join us on Sunday, September 15 at London’s Pelican House (144 Cambridge Heath Rd, Bethnal Green) for the launch of The World After Amazon . The event is free and open to everyone. The evening will feature readings from the
  8. Acknowledgements and Works Cited
    Aug 7, 2024 · original
    The editors wish to extend their deepest thanks to all the worker-writers who participated in the Worker as Futurist Project in all of its iterations, as well as to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, who provided funding to the project through an Insight Development Grant via Lakehead University. Thanks also go to Stella Lawson and Sam Cousin who provided research, editorial, and administrative support, to our editor Candida Hadley, to our artist Amanda Priebe, to our audio engineer and musician Robert Steenkamer, and to our audiobook narrator Sook-Yin Lee. Thanks to the guests on our podcast and the editors at venues that published our writing about the project: Jacobin, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Triple-C and The Sociological Review Magazine. We are also grateful for the support of conference organizers and attendees at the many conferences and academi
  9. Dreaming of the World after Amazon
    Aug 7, 2024 · original
    Xenia Benivolski curates, writes, and lectures about sound, music, and visual art. She is also a PhD student at the LUCA School of Arts at KU Leuven in Brussels. From 2020 to 2023 she was an editor/curator of You Can’t Trust Music at e-flux.com, a research project connecting sound-based artists, musicians, and writers to explore together how landscape, acoustics, and musical thought contribute to the formation of social and political structures. Her writing appears regularly in Texte Zur Kunst , Frieze , Artforum , e-flux journal , and The Wire . In 2023, while a guest on The Workers’ Speculative Society, the podcast that accompanied the Worker as Futurist project, German novelist and critic Heike Gessler spoke about the ways her personal life, politics, and creative work have been affected by the collapse of the communist regime and the dissolution of the German Democratic Republic in 1
  10. Speculative Fiction Writing as Radical Play
    Aug 7, 2024 · original
    Graeme Webb is an educator and researcher exploring the intersection of technology and society, with an emphasis on how science fiction informs our understanding of the world around us. As a lecturer in the School of Engineering at the University of British Columbia, he teaches courses in writing, rhetoric, and technical communication. Webb’s research interests span a range of disciplines, including science fiction and pedagogy, critical cultural studies, and the philosophy of technology. In late June of 2021, the mostly-Indigenous community of Lytton, British Columbia, set a record of 49.6ºC for the highest temperature ever reported in Canada. In the early evening of June 30, a wildfire caught light and, fanned by strong winds, ripped through the town within minutes, forcing hasty evacuations and bringing to bear, once again, the catastrophic and unfair impact of anthropogenic climate c

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