Ebook: Poetry from the Future

The past is forgotten, and the future is without hope. Dystopia has become a reality. This is the new normal in our apocalyptic politics - but if we accept it, our helplessness is guaranteed. To bring about real change, argues activist and political philosopher Srecko Horvat, we must first transform our mindset. Ranging through time and space, from the partisan liberation movements of Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia to the contemporary culture, refugee camps and political frontlines of 21st century Europe, Horvat shows that the problems we face today are of an unprecedented nature. To solve them, he argues in this passionate call for a new radical internationalism, we must move beyond existing ways of thinking: beyond borders, national identities and the redundant narratives of the past. Only in this way can we create new models for living and, together, shape a more open and optimistic future.;A letter to the future -- Prologue: The first sound from occupied France -- Part One. The sounds of occupation -- 1. Summer in Hamburg: Back to the future -- 2. The circle of machinic enslavement -- 3. It's the end of the world (as we know it ...) -- 4. The leftovers in Europe -- 5. Make Margaret Atwood fiction again! -- Interlude: Auschwitz on the beach? -- Part Two. The sounds of liberation -- 6. Summer in Athens: Hope without optimism -- 7. Islands outside capitalism -- 8. Mamma Mia! There are no islands any more -- 9. For a global liberation movement -- 10. Poetry from the future.