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In alternating passages of rhapsodic verse and speculative prose, Bernes plots the dynamic movement of history, both irreversible and recursive, moving forward directly and by twists and turns, in sentences and lines, standing still and hurtling toward the abyss. This is an epic for an age without heroes save collective heroes, leaping from the occupied plazas and rioting cities of the aughts and teens to futures alternately desolate and full of promise.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I think this is one of the poem's great achievements-to write a description of a post-revolutionary moment that isn't a utopia; to use techniques that orbit wider than realism, while looping through a descriptive realism nonetheless. This is beyond the resources of realist fiction when it tries to think about capitalism. The best dystopian science fiction, meanwhile, when it tries to extend capitalism into the future, tends to invite allegorical readings that, while pleasurable, usually lose sight of the thing Bernes has kept our gaze on all the while: the conditions of production under capital, the ones that make us merely 'programmable,' make us just sad apes.\" --Chris Nealon, \"The Price of Value\" (forthcoming 2016)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eWe Are Nothing and So Can You\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs for the rest of us, we learn\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003esomething important about ourselves\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ewatching from the loading dock\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eas the mushroom cloud\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eannounces the end of another season--\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ee.g., that each riot really is\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ean assemblage of other riots\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ewashed up on the boulevards,\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom whose faded corpses\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eone dresses and arms one's comrades\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ethe total inadequacy of which\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eas equipment for the task at hand\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003etraces out in negative\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ethe seat perilous of the party historical\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ethe poetry of the future\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ewhose sweet new sounds\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ewill fill with meaning slowly\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ewhile the seas rise.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50139309900049,"sku":"CIN193463915XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51055650996497,"sku":"NIN9781934639153","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51307157913873,"sku":"NGR9781934639153","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/193463915X.jpg?v=1750804722"},{"product_id":"starsdown-book-jasper-bernes-9781934639023","title":"Starsdown","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50394398064913,"sku":"CIN1934639028A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1934639028.jpg?v=1750836069"},{"product_id":"future-of-revolution-book-jasper-bernes-9781788737531","title":"The Future of Revolution","description":"Communism comes from the future, but its hopes haunt our past. 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