Fully automated luxury barbarism

Reivew of Aaron Bastani, Fully Automated Luxury Communism

Atus Mariqueo-Russell and Rupert Read ~ RP 2.06 (Winter 2019), pp. 108–110 ~ Review

Aaron Bastani, Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto (London: Verso, 2019). 288pp., £16.99 hb., 978 1 78663 262 3 ‘This is not a book about the future but about a present that goes unacknowledged’, Aaron Bastani writes in Fully Automated Luxury Communism. Bastani does not set out to describe what an ideal communist society would […]

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Must do better

Reivew of William MacAskill, Doing Good Better ; Peter Singer, The Most Good You Can Do

Rupert Read ~ RP 2.01 (February 2018), pp. 106–109 ~ Review

William MacAskill, Doing Good Better: Effective Altruism and a Radical New Way to Make a Difference (London: Faber and Faber, 2015). 336pp., £8.99 pb., 978 1 78335 051 3 Peter Singer, The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015). 272pp., £14.99 hb., […]

194 Reviews

Todd Cronan, Christopher Jones-Thompson, Tobias C. van Veen, Bruce Haddock, Kevin Bruyneel, Daniel Matthews and Rupert Read ~ RP 194 (Nov/Dec 2015) ~ Reviews

REVIEWS Operation Adorno The Challenge of Surrealism: The Correspondence of Theodor W. Adorno and Elisabeth Lenk, ed. and trans. Susan H. Gil espie, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2015. 248 pp., £63.38 hb., £18.16 pb., 978 0 81665 616 5 hb., 978 0 81665 617 2 pb. At the beginning of a talk on ‘Critical […]