I’m currently working on a longer treatment of [Four Futures](https://www.jacobinmag.com/2011/12/four-futures/), my social science fictional speculation about the possible successor systems to capitalism, in a world characterized by pervasive automation and ecological crisis. That book is slotted for *Jacobin*’s [series](http://www.versobooks.com/series_collections/112-jacobin); more about that at a later date. Four Futures was, itself, an extension of [“Anti-Star Trek”](http://www.peterfrase.com/2010/12/anti-star-trek-a-theory-of-posterity/), … Continue reading The Comforts of Dystopia