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About Richard Barbrook

Richard Barbrook is a senior lecturer in the school of social sciences, humanities and languages at the University of Westminster, London.

Articles by Richard Barbrook

Wednesday 4th May

Richard Barbrook

Richard Barbrook, 4 May 2011

By 2050, as predicted by Karl Marx, the global ubiquity of political democracy and civil rights will have created the preconditions for victory in the next great struggle of humanity: the emancipation of labour from the tyranny of capital.

Class Wargames
Thursday 5th July

Virtual dreams, real politics

Richard Barbrook, 5 July 2007
The net embodies the information society long imagined by knowledge elites in east and west, so why is utopia no closer?
Tuesday 15th May

Imaginary futures: frozen and fluid time

Richard Barbrook, 15 May 2007
The visions of artificial intelligence and the information society are premised on an ever-arriving, ever-receding future that evades their true origin, argues Richard Barbrook.
Wednesday 3rd September

The gift of the net

Richard Barbrook, 3 September 2003
The polarity between anarchy and oligarchy deforms Siva Vaidhayanathan’s vision of the future of the net. Beneath the rhetoric, he and Bill Thompson share a belief in the net's democratic potential. But Siva does point to a real danger: that state and commodifying forces will undermine the liberating ‘gift economy' that lies at the heart of the net.
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