UPCOMING EVENTS

April 8 speaking on Crafting Images of the Future: The After Capitalism Case Study for the Federal Foresight Community of Interest in Washington DC [NOTE: postponed]

April 10 speaking on Imagining After Capitalism for a Future of Packaging 2035 Program

RECENT ACTIVITIES

PODCAST

Books and Us with Ranji Monga based in India, March 11, 2025 [link coming soon]

PRESENTATION

Talked “Imagining After Capitalism” with the Great Decisions Group that is part of the Foreign Policy Association on March 10, 2025. Great Decisions is America’s largest discussion program on world affairs. I tried a different “intro” on this one … starting with a little Systems Thinking!

WORKSHOP

Shared my “post-capitalism” perspective as a participant in an Institute for the Future Simulation Activity on February 27th.

BOOK LAUNCH

Watch the February 20 Book Launch Recording:

Be sure to check out the Eventbrite page here:

PODCAST

Imagining After Capitalism on Futurati Podcast, February 7, 2025 [link coming soon] Thomas Frey of the DaVinci Institute has been running a Futurati podcast for several years and had me on for a very interactive discussion of the ideas in dImagining After Capitalism. [not yet published]

PODCAST

Imagining After Capitalism on Design Economics Podcast, January 16, 2025

Host Vinny Tafuro discusses Andy’s new book Imagining After Capitalism. The book is the culmination of professional futurist Andy’s 10-year exploration of what comes next after capitalism. Arguing that the absence of compelling positive alternatives keeps us stuck in a combination of fear, denial, and false hope, he offers three “guiding images” for the long-term future.

PODCAST

Imagining After Capitalism on New Books Network, Dec 7, 2024, Hosted by Nathan Moore

https://newbooksnetwork.com/imagining-after-capitalism

Also available on Spotify.

BOOK VIDEO

A three minute video summary of the book including (1) why I wrote it (2) need for positive guiding images (3) disintegration of capitalism (4) 7 key drivers, and (5) the three guiding images: Circular Commons, Non-Workers Paradise, and Tech-Led Abundance.

PRESENTATION

A 30-minute talk on my After Capitalism research that I did this last year for the 20th symposium in the Klaus Tschira Symposia series on Knowledge and Space in Hiedelberg, Germany.

ARTICLE

A longer piece on After Capitalism for the Journal of Futures Studies.

A short article on After Capitalism for the Compass newsletter of the Association of Professional Futurists.

PODCAST

Values, Episode 21. Looking Outside Podcast with Jo Lepore, October 27, 2022, https://www.looking-outside.com/podcast/values. The focus is on values shifts, which are important to After Capitalism

PRESENTATION

A nice overview of Imagining After Capitalism at the Planetary Futures of Health and Well-being conference in Turku, Finland in June 2022.

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PRESENTATION

On March 28, I gave a talk “Imagining After Capitalism” for the General Motors March Trend Network Meeting. See the slides

PODCAST

A podcast with Australian futurist Peter Hayward touched on topics such as:

• the void of images of the world After Capitalism
• the hope (need) for better conversations on After Capitalism
• moving too quickly could be disastrous (as well as moving too slowly)
• the critical importance of shifting values.