The convening call did not get around to discussing a possible book club. If people are interested, I could contribute to (or even lead, if no one else wants to) a book club on Cory Doctorow’s The Lost Cause.
- Paradigmatic solarpunk fiction, but not of the rosy tinged kind. There are huge wildfires, toxic plumes, toxic politics and asshole millionaires in abundance. People die, and abuse each other plenty (though they also help each other).
- Emphasis on local change in Burbank, California (would be interesting in a residency context like Messina’s).
- Near future, all tech is familiar.
- Interesting debating point: how important is anti-monopoly policy to create the world in the novel?
- Strongly grounded in Modern Monetary Theory – we know where Cory’s heart is when it comes to macroeconomics. There is even a reference to money creation without full monetary sovereignty that I find very intriguing, though I won’t nerd out about it here. @Katebee
I for one welcome our new goblin overlords.
