Salvaging the Future: A Review of The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future (New York: Orbit, 2020) After the basics of food and shelter that we need just as animals, first thing after that: dignity. Everyone needs and deserves this, just as part of being human. And yet this … Read more
The Impossible Dream: A Review of Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future
Science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson has been hailed as “one of the world’s finest working novelists” (The Guardian) and “one of the most important political writers working in America today” (The New Yorker). And for good reason. His prolific career includes his latest novel, … Read more
In the new Power issue the Perspectives collective collaborates with Kai Lumumba Barrow who provides cover art and images from Gallery of the Streets. Gallery of the Streets is a network of autonomous artists, activists, and scholars committed to abolitionist movement building. Led by queer … Read more
Death Futures
The highway that connects Los Angeles to Phoenix is called many things, but the strip between these two cities is known as the Christopher Columbus Transcontinental highway. A sardonic name given the elimination of First Nations and Native peoples in the southwest United States. While … Read more
Time Under Tension: Lessons in Organizing from a Kettlebell Gym
Strength is a Skill Your spine is straight. You have shifted your weight back so that your knees are above your ankles—this is such an uncomfortable position until you learn to trust the muscles that hold you there—and you check to make sure the bell … Read more
Love & Rage: The Eros Effect and Spontaneous Combustion
“Today the fight for life, the fight for Eros, is the political fight.” (Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization, 1966) “Eros is historically shaped but eternally emergent. Love binds us together, gives us the courage to make history, to stare down our fears . . … Read more
Envisioning Futures: A Review Essay
A People’s Future of the United States (New York: One World, 2019) by Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams How Long ‘Til Black Future Month? (New York: Orbit, 2018) by N.K. Jemisin Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2018) by Vandana Singh A … Read more
Regenerative Power
Knowing glory and staying modest, be the valley of the world. Being the world’s valley of eternal inexhaustible power is to go back again to the natural. . . . Natural wood is cut up and made into useful things. Wise souls are used to … Read more
Radical Solidarity in the Fight for the Future
Right now, shit is really bad. In October 2018, an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report revealed that the world was on track for catastrophic global warming in the near term, which led to a rallying cry of “12 years to save the planet.” … Read more
Imaginations Introduction
Some days I feel like I know what needs to happen. I imagine we can dream a way past capitalism, a way to unify efforts to eradicate oppression, a way to develop power-sharing processes and create balance without enormous loss of life or slipping into … Read more
