Sun Nov 2, 02025, 7:00PM UTC
Deep Time Reading Group: November meeting
Next Meeting of the Deep Time Reading Group, AKA our new "What Are You Reading? Club"
The second meeting of the Deep Time Reading Group was a good time with lots of great ideas from all participants! Meetings will continue to be held the first Sunday of the month at 2pm at Cafe Zing in Porter Square.
Next Meeting: Sunday, Dec 7, 02025 at 2:00 PM. Register here!
Speakers
The second meeting of the Deep Time Reading Group was a good time with lots of great ideas from all participants! Meetings will continue to be held the first Sunday of the month at 2pm at Cafe Zing in Porter Square.
Next Meeting: Sunday, Dec 7, 02025 at 2:00 PM. Register here!
Books and Topics Discussed:
Capitalism: A Horror Story: Gothic Marxism and the Dark Side of the Radical Imagination by Jon Greenaway (2024) — (capitalism framed as gothic horror)
Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto by Aaron Bastani (2019) — (post-scarcity, tech-driven left future)
New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson (2017) — (climate-changed NYC as future city)
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age by Dennis Duncan (2022) — (indexing as a conceptual breakthrough)
The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes — and Its Implications by David Deutsch (1997) — (quantum information theory meets reality)
... and lots more
Selected Book Summaries:
Capitalism: A Horror Story — Greenaway uses the lens of gothic horror and monster imagery to interrogate capitalism’s cultural and aesthetic dimensions, arguing that horror is a metaphor for the haunted, monstrous effects of capitalist modernity.
Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto — Bastani argues that technological advances (automation, synthetic biology, renewable energy) will enable a society beyond scarcity and wage labour, making a radical left-future possible.
New York 2140 — Robinson imagines a future New York City after a ~50-foot sea-level rise, exploring adaptation, social change, and how people and institutions live in a flooded metropolis rather than simply perish.
Index, A History of the — Duncan traces the often-overlooked history of the index from medieval manuscripts to digital search, showing how indexing reshaped reading, knowledge, and information access.
The Fabric of Reality — Deutsch synthesises quantum physics, computation theory, evolution and epistemology to propose a unified view of reality and argue that deep understanding of these fields transforms how we conceive of the universe.