Future Histories· Staffel 3· Folge 55
S03E55 - Kim Stanley Robinson on Real Utopian Futures
Sonntag, 4. Januar 2026 · 1 h 08
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Kim Stanley Robinson discusses Real Utopian Futures.
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The reference page on Kim Stanley Robinson, his works, interviews, talks, etc. (including a discussion forum):
Robinson, K. S. (2020). The Ministry for the Future. Orbit Books.
orbit-books.co.uk/titles/kim-stanley-robinson/…
Robinson, K. S. (2017). New York 2140. Orbit Books.
orbit-books.co.uk/titles/kim-stanley-robinson/…
Robinson, K. S. (1988). The Gold Coast. Macmillan.
us.macmillan.com/books/9780312890377/thegoldco…
Blumenfeld, J. (2024). Managing Decline. Cured Quail, Vol. 3.
curedquail.com/Managing-Decline
Blumenfeld, J. (2022). Climate Barbarism. Adapting to a wrong World. Constellations, 30, 162–178.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8675.…
the quoted Kohei Saito video:
youtube.com/shorts/WnvhD7p651M?si=SdfPftKOCJM6…
the lecture in which Kim Stanley Robinson talks about “futurecide” and “preemptive capitulation”:
youtu.be/HpzXkpx29S4?si=PVlOE53Hj5-BZR5B
reporting on and summary of the talk:
ioes.ucla.edu/article/the-war-on-science-is-he…
Löwy, M. (2005). What is Ecosocialism? Capitalism Nature Socialism, 16(2), 15–24.
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10455750500108…
for an overview of the history and different schools of Ecomarxist/Ecosocialist theory:
historicalmaterialism.org/ecology-marxism-andr…
on Anna Kornbluh:
on Mass Extinction Events:
nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-is-mass-extinction-and…
Dressler, A. (2025). You have 100 ‘Energy Slaves’. The Climate Brink.
theclimatebrink.com/p/you-have-100-energy-slaves
on the 30 by 30 Biodiversity Goal:
cop28.com/en/thought-leadership/The-30x30-Biod…
the International Maritime Organization:
on the ‘Half-Earth Project’:
eowilsonfoundation.org/what-is-the-half-earth-…
Wilson, E. O. (2016). Half-Earth. Our Planet’s Fight for Life. Norton Books.
wwnorton.com/books/9781631492525
Pendergrass, D. & Vettese, T. (2022). Half-Earth Socialism. A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics. Verso.
versobooks.com/products/2650-half-earth-social…
one of the many interviews/talks in which Kim Stanley Robinson talks about science fiction as the realism of our times:
youtu.be/p1wNhc46xjE?si=hOdKuwRQhef-9tLs
on the Turing Test:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test
on Neoliberalism attaching itself to demands of the New Left:
Boltanski, L. & Chiapello, E. (2018). The New Spirit of Capitalism. Verso.
versobooks.com/products/1980-the-new-spirit-of…
on Friedrich Hayek:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek
Williams, R. (2015). Structures of Feeling. In: D. Sharma & F. Tygstrup (Ed.), Structures of Feeling. Affectivity and the Study of Culture (pp. 20-26).
degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/978311…
on Keynesianism:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_economics
Vogl, J. (2017). The Ascendancy of Finance. Polity Press.
politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-ascen…
Graeber, D. (2011). Debt. The First 5,000 Years. Melville House.
files.libcom.org/files/__Debt__The_First_5_000…
on Thomas Piketty:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Piketty
on Gabriel Zucman:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Zucman
on the ‘Zucman tax’: lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2025/09/23…
on Carbon Taxes:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tax
Sorg, C. (2023). Finance as a Form of Economic Planning. Competition & Change, 29(1), 17-37.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1024529423121…
Sarkar, S. (2024). The Carbon Coin. An Eco-Speculative Approach to Decarbonisation in Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future. Green Letters, 28(4), 297–310.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14688417.2025…
A policy proposal on ‘Carbon Reward’ from the same researcher whose earlier policy work inspired the ‘Carbon Coin’ idea in The Ministry for the Future:
deltonchen.substack.com/p/new-economic-bluepri…
see also:
globalcarbonreward.org/newsletters/carbon-coin
on Quantitative Easing:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing
on Carbon Drawdown:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_sequestration
on Nicolas Stern:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Stern,_Baron_St…
on the Democratic Socialists of America:
the Network for Greening the Financial System:
on COP30 in Belém:
Solnit, R. (2022). Orwell’s Roses. Penguin.
penguinrandomhouse.com/books/607057/orwells-ro…
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If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:
Democratic planning – an information website
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.
journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1
Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construc…
International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
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