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.   

Book editors: Xenia Benivolksi, Max Haiven, Sarah Olutola and Graeme Webb
Narrator: Sook-Yin Lee
Editing and music: Robert Steenkamer
Illustrations: Amanda Priebe

Publisher: RiVAL: The ReImagining Value Action Lab

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The World After Amazon: Stories from Amazon Workers

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Forever On The Clock, by Worker #3

ANYBODY HOME?, by Pearl Cecil Sigur Ramsey

Life After Amazon, by Anneth Chepkoech

Relentless, by Dartagnan

Thalia In Albios, by Cory Gluck

The Iron Uprising By Ibrahim Alsahary

In this inaugural episode of The Order of Unmanagable Risks we talk with artist and writer James Bridle, about the politics of algorithmic opacity, populist technologies, and new ways of seeing through capitalism’s darkness.

James' artworks have been commissioned by galleries and institutions and exhibited worldwide and on the internet. Their writing on literature, culture and networks has appeared in magazines and newspapers including Wired, the Atlantic, the New Statesman, the Guardian, and the Observer. "New Dark Age", their book about technology, knowledge, and the end of the future, was published by Verso (UK & US) in 2018, and they wrote and presented "New Ways of Seeing" for BBC Radio 4 in 2019 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000458m). Their work can be found at http://jamesbridle.com.

The Order of Unmanagable Risks is an occasional podcast hosted by Dr. Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou and Max Haiven about capitalism, anxiety and points inbetween. It is produce by the Common Anxieties Research Project (http://anxious.community) and supported by the ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL) and UCL's Institute for Advanced Study.

"The gifts of darkness?" with James Bridle (OUR001)

The ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL) is a research and creativity workshop for the radical imagination active around the world and locally in Thunder Bay, Canada.

Forever On The Clock, by Worker #3

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