Chris Carlsson

(415) 608-9035 (cell)

Writer • editor • producer • indexing
graphic & multimedia design • The Nowtopian (MY BLOG!)

Contact • Resumé

Nowtopia • Processed World • Shaping San Francisco • Critical Mass • CounterPULSE

At the World Social Forum, Brazil, Jan 30, 2009: YouTube, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

Mind Over Matters, Seattle, YouTube version

Three Monkeys Online: December edition

CBC Radio "The Current" with David Suzuki

Common Dreams "Building an Anti-Economy"

(mp3 recorded in June 08) Steppin' Out of Babylon

Speakers Forum, Elliott Bay Books, KUOW-FM, Seattle, WA

The Battle for San Francisco at Portland's "Towards Car-Free Cities Conference" (mp3)

Acting Historically: Feeling Effective Over the Long Haul in "In The Middle of a Whirlwind"

April 23, 2008 Against The Grain interview (1 hour) podcast

Now Available!
Nowtopia
How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and
Vacant-Lot Gardeners Are Inventing the Future Today!

Available now from AK Press!

From Full Enjoyment Books
After The Deluge

by Chris Carlsson

Available from Full Enjoyment Books / ISBN 0-926664-07-7
$13.00 postpaid from Full Enjoyment Books, 2844 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
distributed by AK Press and Last Gasp

A teenage arsonist threatens a partially submerged mid-22nd century San Francisco. As a Public Investigator "tryout" seeks evidence across the utopian city full of canals and veloways, political and social conflicts erupt. When there is no such thing as property, what is crime, and how does a utopian society protect itself from bad behavior? Should scientists be as free as artists to create? What is a "free market" for work without and money and commodities?

"A provocative and speculative journey to the Bay Area of 2157... more an imaginary treasure map than utopia-by-the-numbers blueprint... This book might show much more in common with Starhawk's Fifth Sacred Thing if Carlsson weren't so precisely and persistently allergic to the kind of earth religion Starhawk promotes. After The Deluge is for atheists and agnostics and activists who don't need the goddess to get their revolutionary groove on."
—Anu Bonobo, Fifth Estate Magazine, Fall 2005