Remake the World, Astra Taylor
Remake the World, Astra Taylor
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Remake the World
Essays, Reflections, Rebellions

Author: Astra Taylor

Narrator: Christina Delaine

Unabridged: 7 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/13/2021

Synopsis

Over the last decade, author and activist Astra Taylor has helped shift the national conversation on topics including technology, inequality, indebtedness, and democracy. The essays collected here reveal the range and depth of her thinking, with Taylor tackling the rising popularity of socialism, the problem of automation, the politics of listening, the possibility of rights for the natural and non-human world, the future of the university, the temporal challenge of climate catastrophe, and more. Addressing some of the most pressing social problems of our day, Taylor invites us to imagine how things could be different while never losing sight of the strategic question of how change actually happens.

Curious and searching, these historically informed and hopeful essays are as engaging as they are challenging and as urgent as they are timeless. Taylor's unique philosophical style has a political edge that speaks directly to the growing conviction that a radical transformation of our economy and society is required.

About Astra Taylor

Astra Taylor is a filmmaker, writer, and political organizer, born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and raised in Athens, Georgia; she currently lives in New York. Her latest book is Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions, and her other books include the American Book Award winner The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age. She regularly writes for major publications, has directed multiple documentaries, toured with the band Neutral Milk Hotel, and cofounded the Debt Collective.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nathan on November 30, 2021

The author is an incredible writer and reading this is a pleasure, but I found myself quite unsure what the point was at the end. There aren’t many solutions or propositions or theories for “remaking” the world. The work was all previously published and could’ve been re-edited to build a much strong......more

Goodreads review by Brenmlaws on July 03, 2021

I found this to be a frustratingly contradictory book. Firstly, Taylor is an excellent writer structurally, and her cutting prose is mixed with astute observations. She also takes these observations in overtly anti-capitalist directions. However, the focus seems painfully personalized, on her specif......more

Goodreads review by Lauren on July 10, 2022

"We are out of sync with everything on earth and even with one another" (page 242, last essay Out of Time). "The world is a complicated place, and we are permeable, interconnected beings subject to infection by ideas and viruses" (page 21, first essay Breathing Together). These contemporary essays, fr......more

Goodreads review by David on March 09, 2022

Pretty interesting essay collection; maybe 3.4 stars if goodreads went to more precision in rating scheme. Good writer who keeps it moving by mixing abstraction (what is "socialism" really?) with concrete details (e.g., on student loan crisis) and analyses (should Occupy Wall Street have had more of......more

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