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Share or Die (PDF)

Voices of the Get Lost Generation in the Age of Crisis

edited by Malcolm Harris & Neal Gorenflo

foreword by Cory Doctorow

Publisher
New Society Publishers
Initial publish date
May 2012
Category
General
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781550925036
    Publish Date
    May 2012
    List Price
    $9.70

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Description

America stands at a precipice; limitless consumption, reckless economics, and disregard for the environment have put the country on a collision course with disaster. It's up to a younger generation to rebuild according to new forms of organization, and Share or Die is a collection of messages from the front lines.

From urban Detroit to central Amsterdam, and from worker co-operatives to nomadic communities, an astonishing variety of recent graduates and 20-something experimenters are finding (and sharing) their own answers to negotiating the new economic order. Their visions of a shared future include:

  • Collaborative consumption networks instead of private ownership
  • Replacing the corporate ladder with a "lattice lifestyle"
  • Do-it-yourself higher education.

As a call-to-action, "share or die" doesn't only refer to resource depletion, disappearing jobs or stagnating wages. It refers to social death too, and to finding the common-sense ideas and practices needed to not only merely survive, but to build a place where it's worth living. A series of forays into uncharted territory, this graphically-rich collection of essays, narratives and how-tos is an intimate guide to the new economic order and a must-read for anyone attempting to understand what it means to live as part of Generation Y.

About the authors

Malcolm Harris is the Life/Art channel editor and a writer at Shareable. His work has been featured on Alternet, KQED.org, The Los Angeles Free Press, and he is managing editor at The New Inquiry, a criticism site devoted to collecting and promoting the work of young unaffiliated writers.

Malcolm Harris' profile page

Neal Gorenflo is the co-founder and publisher of Shareable (www.shareable.net), a nonprofit online magazine about sharing. A former market researcher, stock analyst, and Fortune 500 strategist, Neal left the corporate world in 2004 to help bring a shareable world to life through Internet startups, grassroots organizing, and a circle of friends committed to the common good. Neal has also worked for the green social network Care2.com and co-organized The Abundance League's monthly salons about alternative economy in San Francisco.

Neal Gorenflo's profile page

Cory Doctorow is a multi-award-winning science fiction author, technologist, activist and speaker. His novels include Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Eastern Standard Tribe and the recently released contemporary fantasy, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town.

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