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Here's a little nonfic on the fiction genre and a plug for a new book from the author of this guest column.

Imagination is the capacity to envision, experience, or describe things that exist outside of this universe or at least outside of our personal experience. Imagination breaks various laws of physics and laws of history (for those who still believe in the disgraced hypothesis that history has laws) by allowing us to step outside the totality and engage in acts of parthenogenesis.

The essay "Towards a Liberatory Technology" is particularly useful for solarpunks as it deals with how technology could be used in a liberatory and ecological way.

For me, it's pretty clear that police and prisons reinforce class society and are things that factor into proletarianization. Therefore there can be no socialism without abolition. A corollary states that socialist projects that reinstituted police and prisons (gulags and checka anyone?) couldn't be socialist because by using police and prisons it reinforced proletarianization and class relations.

What do you think?

Video about the end of Elysium

How to cope with eco grief, eco anxiety and mourning the loss of nature on this dying planet.

I really like this video. It helps me process about the end of the world better.

Well, mods have enabled walkable cities for some years, but it didn't work well. Recently, the modders of SimCity 4 invented a new way of building walkable cities. And I have to say, it's pretty fun.

SimCity 4 is a game that has well-internalized the automobile-centered urbanism of the United States. But despite these faults, community interventions through game modification can allow players to design entirely new urbanisms in the game that breaks with car-centrism.

In brief, the right to the city is the right to the production of a city. The labor of a worker is the source of most of the value of a commodity that is expropriated by the owner. The worker, therefore, has a right to benefit from that value denied to them. In the same way, the urban citizen produces and reproduces the city through their own daily actions. However, the the city is expropriated from the urbanite by the rich and the state. The right to the city is therefore the right to appropriate the city by and for those who make and remake it.

This book is about that.

Here's a list of anarchist networks on Lemmy

• !anarchism@slrpnk.net

• !anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• !anarchism@lemmy.fmhy.ml

• !anarchism@lemmy.ml

Here's a list of anarchist networks on Lemmy

• !anarchism@slrpnk.net

• !anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• !anarchism@lemmy.fmhy.ml

• !anarchism@lemmy.ml

Here's a list of anarchist networks on Lemmy

• !anarchism@slrpnk.net

• !anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• !anarchism@lemmy.fmhy.ml

• !anarchism@lemmy.ml