<div><span><strong>What:</strong> Writer, publisher, editor, and community organizer, Chris Carlsson will be reading from his newest book - </span></div>
<div><span></span><span><u>Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-Lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today!</u></span><br clear="all"></div>
<div><strong>When: </strong>Friday May 16th at 6pm</div>
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<div><strong>Where: </strong>Symposium Books, 526 Commonwealth Ave, Kenmore Square (Symposium Books is an independent bookstore that specializes in overstocks and remainders from independent and academic presses).</div>
<div>For more info contact <a href="mailto:Kenmore@symposiumbooks.com">Kenmore@symposiumbooks.com</a> or 617-585-6559</div>
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<div>*Snacks will be provided!</div>
<div>**A signing will follow the reading</div>
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<div><strong>More Info: </strong>Outlaw bicycling, urban permaculture, biofuels, free software, and even the Burning Man festival are windows into a scarcely visible social transformation that is redefining politics as we know it. As capitalism continues to corral every square inch of the globe into its logic of money and markets, new practices are emerging through which people are taking back their time and technological know-how. In small, under-the-radar ways, they are making life better right now, simultaneously building the foundation-technically and socially-for a genuine movement of liberation from market life.</div>
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<p><i>Nowtopia</i> uncovers the resistance of a slowly recomposing working class in America. Rarely defining themselves by what they do for a living, people from all walks of life are doing incredible amounts of labor in their "non-work" time, creating immediate practical improvements in daily life. The social networks they create, and the practical experience of cooperating outside of economic regulation, become a breeding ground for new strategies to confront the commodification to which capitalism reduces us all.</p>
<p>The practices outlined in <i>Nowtopia</i> embody a deep challenge to the basic underpinnings of modern life, as a new ecologically driven politics emerges from below, reshaping our assumptions about science, technology, and human potential.</p>
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