Ep 68 - FALC the System w/ Aaron Bastani

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Sean KB and AP Andy

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4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2019

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Novara Media's Aaron Bastani calls in to talk Brexit before we dive into Fully Automated Luxury Communism, the meme he created way back in the mid '10s, now a book available from Verso. What is luxury? Are we coming closer to FALC with each bite of the Impossible Whopper? Should it more appropriately be called FALKensyianism? Will the Green New Deal lead to FALC or continued late capitalist Dystopia? Bastani answers all these burning questions and more.

Follow Aaron Bastani on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/AaronBastani

Buy the book from Verso (50% off until the end of the month!):

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2757-fully-automated-luxury-communism

Aaron's Green New Deal piece:

https://novaramedia.com/2017/11/19/fully-automated-green-communism/

Some of the critiques of FALC referenced are mentioned in this piece:

https://libcom.org/blog/poverty-luxury-communism-05042018

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Closing song: Jamiroquai - Automaton

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the anti-fata where unrest is best. I'm Jamie Peck. I'm Andy and we are here with an awesome guest today. He is the
0:16.4	co-founder of Novar Media and author of fully automated luxury communism.
0:22.6	His name is Aaron Bastani.
0:24.2	Hey, Aaron, what's up?
0:25.5	Hey, what's up?
0:26.0	Thanks for having me on.
0:27.2	Thank you so much for coming.
0:29.1	Aaron, we're sorry you couldn't be in studio today.
0:32.0	You're in London, is that correct? That's not correct actually I'm on the south
0:35.8	coast I'll be in London tomorrow you're in Brighton I'm not in Brighton I'm in a
0:42.0	place called Portsmouth.
0:43.0	Okay, those are the two cities I know right now.
0:45.0	So, let me ask you this.
0:47.0	Do you recognize this voice?
0:50.0	Silence.
0:52.0	Um, I suppose not.
0:54.0	Okay.
0:55.0	You interviewed me many years ago at the Social Bloom occupation.
1:00.0	Oh wow.
1:01.0	About Occupy Wall Street. Go on.
1:03.0	And it wasn't Novara, but it was basically the product you were doing before Novara as far as I can tell.
1:11.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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