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A major new manifesto for the end of capitalism

Neoliberalism isn´t working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite.

Inventing the Future is a bold new manifesto for life after capitalism. Against the confused understanding of our high-tech world by both the right and the left, this book claims that the emancipatory and future-oriented possibilities of our society can be reclaimed. Instead of running from a complex future, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams demand a postcapitalist economy capable of advancing standards, liberating humanity from work and developing technologies that expand our freedoms.

This new edition includes a new chapter where they respond to their various critics.

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"A conceptual launch pad for a new socialist imagination."
-Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums

"Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams´ project dares to propose a different way of thinking and acting. Given the fizzling of the Occupy moment, a radical rethinking of the anarchic approach is badly needed but just not happening. This book could do a lot of work in getting that rethink going."
-Doug Henwood, author of Wall Street

" Inventing the Future may be the shrewdest, sanest pipe dream of a book published since the recession."
-Nathan Heller, New Yorker

"A powerful book: it not only shows us how the postcapitalist world of rapidly improving technology could make us free, but it also shows us how we can organise to get there. This is a must-read."
-Paul Mason, author of Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future

"Srnicek and Williams demonstrate how a sustainable economic future is less a question of means than of imagination. The postcapitalist world they envision is utterly attainable, if we can remember that we have been inventing the economy all along."
-Douglas Rushkoff, author of Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

"Neoliberalism and austerity seem to reign supreme-the idea of a society not run for profit seems impossible. Or does it? The fascinating Inventing the Future by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams argues for a radical transformation of society."
-Owen Jones, New Statesman books of the year 2015

"I love the way [Srnicek and Williams] talk about a basic income as something really transformative."
-Caroline Lucas, British Member of Parliament

"A future free from work might seem unrealistic, but it is actually the elephant in the room that [David] Cameron et al. would rather you ignored. Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams´ fabulous study opened my eyes to the role technology might play in making society possible again."
-Peter Fleming, author of the Mythology of Work , from the Times Higher Education Supplement

" Inventing the Future is unapologetically a manifesto, and a much-overdue clarion call to a seriously disorganized metropolitan left to get its shit together, to start thinking-and arguing-seriously about what is to be done ... It is hard to deny the persuasiveness with which the book puts forward the positive contents of a new and vigorous populism; in demanding full automation and universal basic income from the world system, they also demand the return of utopian thinking and serious organization from the left."
- Los Angeles Review of Books

"In Inventing the Future , Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams take on the two key questions of the left, if I can characterise them broadly: why are we so bad at saying stuff, and do we have anything to say? Their diagnoses of the shortcomings of what they call ´folk politics,´ are perceptive, clear, brutal, but respectful. Their prescription for the future can seem vertiginously sudden-you´ll need to either get on board with a basic citizen´s income, or form a better refutation than ´it sounds expensive,´ and fast. But critically, they identify our urgent task: to own modernity."
-Zoe Williams, Guardian

"Inventing the Future is exactly what we need right now. With immense patience and care, it sets out a clear and compelling vision of a postcapitalist society. Equally importantly, it lays out a plausible programme which can take us from 24/7 capitalist immiseration to a world free of work."
-Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

"Most important book of 2015.″
-Aaron Bastani, co-founder of Novara Media

" Inventing the Future offers an ambitious, thoughtfully creative and meticulously researched blueprint for a new strategy toward building a mass global movement to counter the hegemony of neoliberal capitalism ... Srnicek and Williams offer a profoundly thoughtful, meticulously analyzed contribution to this body of work. Most importantly, they offer a glimmer of hope that the future

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