A washed up TV reporter stumbles onto a corruption scandal in Western China. Pursued through the desert by a psychotic spin-doctor and a world-weary cop, he discovers the real China: illegal metal mines, a fashion-crazed gang of girl bikers, a whole commune of Tiananmen Square survivors and the up-market sleaze-joints of Beijing. En route, he clashes with a stellar cast of people-traffickers, prostitutes and TV execs. But then the unquiet dead begin to intervene: ghosts from his own past and the past of Chinese Communism; the 'spirits that hover three feet above our heads' of Chinese folklore. Rare Earth is a story about love, journalism, ghosts, metallurgy, vintage militaria and large motorcycles set in the badlands of Inner Mongolia and Ningxia. It is about the west's inability to understand the East; one man's epic journey across a dying landscape, where 'thousands of pairs of eyes peer beyond grimy windowpanes into the moonless sky, looking for something better.'

Rare Earth

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Clear Bright Future by Paul Mason, read by Finlay Robertson. Our world order is under pressure as never before. From new authoritarian regimes in the US, Turkey and Russia, to the imminent break-up of the European Union and a social media awash with intolerance, things look set to fall apart just as abruptly as the Soviet Union did some thirty years ago. How did we get here, and what do we do now? In this searching new exploration of our crisis, Paul Mason argues that at its heart lies an attack on the idea of humanity itself. As the free-market system reduced us to two-dimensional consumers, genetics has stripped us of our belief in humans as agents of change. And now the dystopian forces of the authoritarian right are pushing the world towards a pre-modern understanding of the human being: one that aims to destroy the very concept of universal human rights, and create a new world in which we are biologically destined to form hierarchies based on ethnicity and gender, and to obey the demands of religious conformity. If these forces are not stopped, Mason warns, we will relive something even worse than the 1930s. In response, he demands a radical defence of the human being: a reinvention of humanism; a re-assertion of the universality of human rights; and a struggle for a society where biologically determined hierarchies are abolished. We have the power to imagine and design a better system. We must, Mason concludes, reach deep into the history and experience of resistance in order to be our own saviours.

Clear Bright Future

What caused the financial mess we're in? And how do we get out of it?  Two of the great economic thinkers of the 20th century had sharply contrasting views. John Maynard Keynes believed that government spending could create employment and longer term growth. His contemporary and rival Friedrich Hayek believed that investments have to be based on real savings rather than increased public spending or artificially low interest rates.  Keynes's biographer, Professor Lord Skidelsky, takes on modern-day followers of Hayek in a debate at the London School of Economics. Paul Mason, economics editor of Newsnight, is in the chair. Speakers include George Selgin, Duncan Weldon and Jamie Whyte.

Keynes V Hayek

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of PostCapitalism, written and read by Paul Mason. 'The most important book about our economy and society to be published in my lifetime' Irvine Welsh From Paul Mason, the award-winning Channel 4 presenter, Postcapitalism is a guide to our era of seismic economic change, and how we can build a more equal society. Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone continual change - economic cycles that lurch from boom to bust - and has always emerged transformed and strengthened. Surveying this turbulent history, Paul Mason wonders whether today we are on the brink of a change so big, so profound, that this time capitalism itself, the immensely complex system by which entire societies function, has reached its limits and is changing into something wholly new. At the heart of this change is information technology: a revolution that, as Mason shows, has the potential to reshape utterly our familiar notions of work, production and value; and to destroy an economy based on markets and private ownership - in fact, he contends, it is already doing so. In this groundbreaking, Sunday Times top ten book, Mason shows how, from the ashes of the recent financial crisis, we have the chance to create a more socially just and sustainable global economy.

PostCapitalism

Brought to you by Penguin. The far right is on the rise across the world. From Modi's India to Bolsonaro's Brazil and Erdogan's Turkey, fascism is not a horror that we have left in the past; it is a recurring nightmare that is happening again - and we need to find a better way to fight it. In How to Stop Fascism, Paul Mason offers a radical, hopeful blueprint for resisting and defeating the new far right. The book is both a chilling portrait of contemporary fascism, and a compelling history of the fascist phenomenon: its psychological roots, political theories and genocidal logic. Fascism, Mason powerfully argues, is a symptom of capitalist failure, and it has haunted us throughout the twentieth century. History shows us the conditions that breed fascism, and how it can be successfully overcome. But it is up to us in the present to challenge it, and time is running out. From the ashes of Covid-19, we have an opportunity to create a fairer, more equal society. To do so, we must ask ourselves: what kind of world do we want to live in? And what are we going to do about it? © Paul Mason 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

How to Stop Fascism

A proposta de uma discussão internacional e plurieditorial vem responder aos questionamentos diante dos acontecimentos políticos recentes. A grande regressão: um debate internacional sobre os novos populismos – e como enfrentá-los, organizado por Heinrich Geiselberger, reúne contribuições de quinze autores consagrados, incluindo Zygmunt Bauman, Nancy Fraser, Bruno Latour e Slavoj Žižek, e um artigo inédito de Renato Janine Ribeiro. O começo do século XXI deixou claro: a globalização neoliberal fracassou. Não chegamos ao "fim da história" e ao auge do progresso humano, e sim testemunhamos os riscos anunciados se verificando um a um: terrorismo internacional, mudanças climáticas, crises financeiras, aumento da desigualdade e grandes movimentos migratórios. As democracias e o establishment neoliberal falharam em atingir soluções para essas questões globais. Neste vácuo, demagogos e populistas ascenderam ao poder, degradando e vulgarizando o discurso público e minando as instituições democráticas. Partidos e sentimentos ultranacionalistas, xenófobos e racistas estão experimentando renovado prestígio, força e voz. Teorias conspiratórias se espalham e passam a figurar como verdade. Os artigos de Arjun Appadurai, Zygmunt Bauman, Donatella della Porta, Nancy Fraser, Eva Illouz, Ivan Krastev, Bruno Latour, Paul Mason, Pankaj Mishra, Robert Misik, Oliver Nachtwey, César Rendueles, Wolfgang Streeck, David Van Reybrouck, Slavoj Žižek e Renato Janine Ribeiro buscam entender as raízes desses desenvolvimentos, localizando-os em seus respectivos contextos históricos, sociais e geográficos, aliando história, sociologia, ciência política, economia, psicologia e crítica cultural, e oferecendo novas formas de pensar e fazer a democracia. O livro levanta questões como: por que a globalização está causando uma fadiga da democracia (Appadurai); como dar continuidade à integração humana (Bauman); como movimentos de esquerda e de direita nasceram dos mesmos descontentamentos (della Porta); por que o establishment nos levou a um impasse democrático (Fraser); como Israel trocou sua vocação universalista pelo fundamentalismo (Illouz); como a democracia está sendo subvertida em alguns de seus aspectos fundamentais (Krastev); como evitar destruir nossa Terra (Latour); como a cultura da classe trabalhadora foi cooptada pelo capital (Mason). Ou ainda: como ajustar nossa visão sobre a democracia do presente e do futuro (Mishra); como traduzir ideias progressistas para a política (Misik); quais as características dos atuais processos de descivilização (Nachtwey); como o fracasso do neoliberalismo engendrou o momento presente (Rendueles, Streeck); como renovar a democracia na União Europeia (Van Reybrouck); como o populismo sobrepujou a racionalidade capitalista (Žižek); o que o sentido da História pode nos dizer sobre o futuro do Brasil (Janine Ribeiro). Essas e outras discussões estão em A grande regressão, uma intervenção fundamental para todos que estão preocupados com tais mudanças e se perguntam de que forma responder aos desafios sem precedentes que se apresentam para as democracias progressistas e para o internacionalismo global.

A grande regressão

Paul Mason öppnar med sin framåtsyftande och optimistiska bok Postkapitalism för den stora diskussionen om nutiden, framtiden och vilket samhälle vi ska leva i. I boken tar Mason sig an arbetarrörelsens historia, vänsterns tänkare, som Karl Marx och Rosa Luxemburg, liberala managementteoretiker som Peter Drucker och high tech-erans filosofer och infogar deras rön i sin egen analys som pekar mot en samhällsform han kallar postkapitalism. En stor omvälvning pågår redan i det tysta. Den digitala tekniken ökar ständigt informationsinnehållet i det som produceras. Information kan alltid kopieras gratis. Kostnaderna för allt fler varor och tjänster sjunker mot noll såvida ingen monopoliserar informationen och prismekanismen och marknaden upphör att fungera. Nätverk och samarbete står då emot auktoritär styrning och marknadsmonopol. Det är människorna idag som kan skapa den postkapitalism som måste bygga på jämlikhet, jämställdhet, internationell solidaritet och ansvar för miljön och klimatet. Paul Mason har skrivit en världsbildsförändrande bok om det som kommer om vi själva vill.

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