Nowtopians
Outlaw Bicycling
Sustainable Biofuelers
Permaculture scientists
Urban Gardeners
Burning Man
Net work
News

Nowtopia: The Book
Contents
About the author
Public Appearances
Reviews and Interviews


Nowtopians
Outlaw Bicycling
Sustainable Biofuelers
Permaculture scientists
Urban Gardeners
Burning Man
Net work
News

Nowtopia: The Book
Contents
About the author
Public Appearances
Reviews and Interviews

 
Table of Contents

Introduction: A New Politics of Work 3

Ch. 1 Seeds of the New Commons 9

Ch. 2 Class Dismissed! 17

The Rise and Demise of a Blue-Collar Working Class 19

Class Unmade 25

The Revolt Against Professionalism 29

Myth of the Middle Class 33

Ch. 3 “What You See Me Doing, Isn’t What I Do” 39

Why “Class Composition”? 40

Beyond Subordination 44

DIY 46

Ch. 4 Contesting the Evolution of Science 55

General Intellect 57

Reading the Book of Nature: The New (old)
Science of Permaculture 58

Reductionist Science 61

Old Science Meets New 65

Abundance, Limits and Accountability 71

Permaculture and Direct Action 74

Ch. 5 Vacant-Lot Gardeners 81

Private Real Estate (Enclosures) vs.
Public Land (Commons) 91

Freely-given Labor Shapes a New Class Composition 95

Urban Gardening and Food Security 99

Keeping Gardening Simple and Limited 104

Urban Ju-jitsu 106

Ch. 6 “Outlaw” Bicycling 115

Bicycling Outside of the Waged Day 122

Autonomous Spaces or Small Businesses? 123

Bicycle Zines and Women Cyclists 128

Bike Messengers 133

Rides 139

Contesting the Technosphere 143

Class Composition and Community 149

Ch. 7 Free Fuel: The Tinkerer’s Grail 157

Proliferating Caravans 160

DIY: Tinkering Towards Appropriate Technology 166

The Work of Biofuels: Making and Unmaking Class 171

Big Capital vs. Sustainability? 176

Ch. 8 Virtual Spine of the Commons 185

A Brief History of the Internet 187

Making Technology Something New 192

The Cognitariat Works for Free 199

Networks of Communities 205

A Self-Organizing Commons 207

Ch. 9 Burning Man: A Working-Class, Do-It-Yourself
World’s Fair 213

One-Hour Scrutinizing 215

Commerce-free Gift Economy 216

Class in the Dust 219

The End of Community—Long Live Community! 222

Making Technology Ours 225

Liberated Work vs. Useless Toil 227

Ch. 10 A Vastly Better World Awaits 235

The Co-optation Trap 237

We’re History 238

The Privilege Trap 240

The Technology Trap 245

Taking Leave, Together 249

Notes 253

Selected Bibliography 268

About The Author 272

Index 273



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