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THE FUTURE IS NOW AN INTRODUCTION TO PREFIGURATIVE POLITICS EDITED BY LARA MONTICELLI ALTERNATIVES TO CAPITALISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21st Century Series Editors: Lara Monticelli, Copenhagen Business School, and Torsten Geelan, University of Copenhagen Debates about the future of capitalism demonstrate the urgent need to envision and enact alternatives that can help tackle the multiple intertwined crises that societies are currently facing. This ground-breaking new series advances the international, comparative and interdisciplinary study of capitalism and its alternatives in the 21st century. Forthcoming in the series: Politics of the Gift: Towards a Convivial Society Capital to Commons Hannes Gerhardt Money Commons: Remaking Money for an Inclusive and Sustainable Future Ester Barinaga Find out more at bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/alternatives-to-capitalism-in-the- 21st-century Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21st Century Series Editors: Lara Monticelli, Copenhagen Business School, and Torsten Geelan, University of Copenhagen International Advisory Board: Wendy Harcourt, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands Vasna Ramasar, Lund University, Sweden Tom Malleson, King’s University College, Canada Silvia Federici, Hofstra University, US , The New School for Social Research, US Nancy Fraser, The New School for Social Research, US Luke Martell, University of Sussex, UK Laura Basu, openDemocracy and University of Utrecht, Netherlands Juliet Schor, Boston College, US Isabelle Ferreras, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium Göran Therborn, University of Cambridge, UK Gar Alperovitz, The Democracy Collaborative and the Next System Project, US Francesca Forno, University of Trento, Italy Flor Avelino, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Dutch Research Institute for Transitions, Netherlands Emanuele Leonardi, University of Parma, Italy David Bailey, University of Birmingham, UK Ashish Kothari, Global Tapestry of Alternatives, India Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, University College London, UK Arturo Escobar, University of North Carolina, US Albena Azmanova, Brussels School of International Studies, Belgium Find out more at bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/alternatives-to-capitalism-in-the- 21st-century THE FUTURE IS NOW An Introduction to Prefigurative Politics Edited by Lara Monticelli With a foreword by Arturo Escobar First published in Great Britain in 2022 by Bristol University Press University of Bristol 1– 9 Old Park Hill Bristol BS2 8BB UK t: + 44 (0)117 374 6645 e: bup- [email protected] Details of international sales and distribution partners are available at bristoluniversitypress.co.uk © Bristol University Press 2022 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978-1 -5 292- 1565- 6 hardcover ISBN 978-1 -5 292- 1567- 0 ePub ISBN 978-1 -5 292- 1568- 7 ePdf The right of Lara Monticelli to be identified as editor of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. 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Cover design: Liam Roberts Front cover image: The Nest by Zualidro, https://www.behance.net/zualidro Bristol University Press uses environmentally responsible print partners. Printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY To Torsten, and to all the ‘holy fools’ who dare to prefigure alternative futures. Are there still other possibilities? Of course, there are. … Whichever option is chosen, it will not be the end of history, but in a real sense its beginning. The human social world is still very young in cosmological time. In 2050 or 2100, when we look back at capitalist civilization, what will we see? Immanuel Wallerstein, Historical Capitalism with Capitalist Civilization (2011), p 163. Reproduced with permission of Verso through PLSclear. Contents List of Figures and Tables xi List of Abbreviations xii Notes on Contributors xiii Acknowledgements xix Foreword by Arturo Escobar xxii Introduction 1 Lara Monticelli PART I Contextualizing Prefigurative Politics 1 Prefigurative Politics Within, Despite and Beyond 15 Contemporary Capitalism Lara Monticelli 2 Prefiguration: Between Anarchism and Marxism 32 Paul Raekstad 3 Decolonizing Prefiguration: Ernst Bloch’s Philosophy of 47 Hope and the Multiversum Ana Cecilia Dinerstein 4 Rethinking Prefiguration: Between Radical Imagination 65 and Imaginal Politics Aris Komporozos- Athanasiou and Chiara Bottici 5 Prefiguration and Emancipatory Critical Pedagogy: The 76 Learning Side of Practice Antonia De Vita and Francesco Vittori PART II Prefigurative Politics in Practice 6 Prefiguration and the Futures of Work 93 Ana Cecilia Dinerstein and Frederick Harry Pitts 7 Prefiguration and Utopia: The Auroville Experiment 106 Suryamayi Aswini Clarence- Smith 8 Prefiguration in Everyday Practices: When the Mundane 119 Becomes Political Francesca Forno and Stefan Wahlen ix