Launch events - The World After Amazon: Stories from Amazon Workers

London, Berlin, Halifax, NYC, Philly, Princeton, Toronto, more...

It’s a great pleasure to launch The World After Amazon: Stories from Amazon Workers with friends, comrades and brilliant people.

The following events are scheduled for the coming months.

• London, September 15, at Pelican House with Phil Thomas Crocket, Max Haiven, Lola Olufemi, Sarah E. Truman and Jamie Woodcock. The recording of this phenomenal event is now available here.

• Berlin, September 26, at LISBETH, in cooperation with Hopscotch Reading Room, with Daniel Wetzel of Rimini Protokoll and a representative of Berlin Versus Amazon

• Halifax, October 11, at The Trident, with El Jones.

• Brooklyn, October 16, at The Word is Change.

• Philadellphia, October 20, at Making Worlds Bookstore and Social Centre.

• Princeton, October 21, a public talk at the university.

• Toronto, October 26, at Another Story Bookstore.

• Lüneburg, February 5, at the Urban Speculations: Cities, Technologies, Futures conference at the Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University.

Visit http://afteramazon.world for times, locations and the latest information.

One of the editors of the book (and maybe a writer or two) would be happy to come to your city. Please get in touch!

The World After Amazon is a collection of 9 short speculative stories, written by rank-and-file workers at the corporation that has transformed the way we read and so much more. Amazon's sci-fi propaganda tells the story of a company using cutting-edge technology to deliver a utopia of cheap consumer convenience.

But its workers pay the price, toiling in dystopian conditions to create a future that will exclude them.

What happens when those workers reclaim the radical imagination and their power to tell their own stories?

The World After Amazon can be ordered in print or read or downloaded online for free, and is also available as a podcast and audiobook.

For more information, visit http://afteramazon.world.

Other news

• I’m very honoured to be the Whitney J. Oates Short-Term Fellow (offering a talk and a workshop) in the Humanities Council and the Department of English at Princeton University, where I will be visiting from October 21-25.

• I’m also very honoured to be a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at UCL’s Institute of Advanced Studies from November 15-May 15. I’m looking forward to connecting to London and UK colleagues during that time.