After Capitalism

How can transcend the logics, structures, and subjectivities of capitalism: a framework, theoretical grounding, and practical principles. The ed things, experiences, and symbols that we use to perceive, understand, and perform our everyday lives are much more than just props. They directly shape how we live. In after Capitalism, Matthew Wizinsky argues that the world of industrial capitalism that gave birth to modern has been dramatically transformed. today needs to reorient itself toward deliberate transitions of everyday politics, social relations, and economies. Looking at through the lens of political economy, Wizinsky calls for the field to transcend the logics, structures, and subjectivities of capitalism—to combine entrepreneurship with social empowerment in order to facilitate new ways of producing those things, symbols, and experiences that make up everyday life. After analyzing the parallel histories of capitalism and , Wizinsky offers some historical examples of anticapitalist, noncapitalist, and postcapitalist models of practice. These range from the British Arts and Crafts movement of the nineteenth century to contemporary practices of growing furniture or biotextiles and automated forms of production. Drawing on insights from sociology, philosophy, economics, political science, history, environmental and sustainability studies, and critical theory—fields not usually seen as central to —he lays out core principles for postcapitalist ; offers strategies for applying these principles to the three layers of project, practice, and discipline; and provides a set of practical guidelines for ers to use as a starting point. The work of postcapitalist can start today, Wizinsky says—with the next project.