AIES Book Club | Everything for Everyone

For this book club session, we will be reading Eman Abdelhadi and M. E. O'Brien's "Everything for Everyone: an Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072".

By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world’s governments. In the 2050s, the insurrections reached the nerve center of global capitalism—New York City. This book, a collection of interviews with the people who made the revolution, was published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the New York Commune, a radically new social order forged in the ashes of capitalist collapse.

Here is the insurrection in the words of the people who made it, a cast as diverse as the city itself. Nurses, sex workers, antifascist militants, and survivors of all stripes recall the collapse of life as they knew it and the emergence of a collective alternative. Their stories, delivered in deeply human fashion, together outline how ordinary people’s efforts to survive in the face of crisis contain the seeds of a new world.

With a loose science fiction theme, our AIES book club invites us to consider literary, creative and artistic perspectives on technological development and social change - and to take a break from reading academic papers!

Where to source this book?

"Everything for Everyone" is available from Blackwells at this link: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Everything-for-Everyone-by-M-E-OBrien-Eman-Abdelhadi/9781942173588

Please allow 7-10 working days for the delivery!

Event Venue

HSY_G.01 - Classroom 1 (High School Yards Teaching Centre), High School Yards, Edinburgh, United Kingdom