A video interview with Richard Barbrook, presenting his new book Imaginary Futures, (Pluto Press, 2007).
And a long taped presentation of Richard Barbrooks, held at the net culture lab in Vienna, can be found on TAGR.TV.
Here the list of the chapters with some of the artwork realized by Alex Veness, complete list at the gallery.
Chapter 1: The Future Is What It Used To Be
Son of the Empire: Richard Barbrook as a Cub Scout of America, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1965.
Chapter 2: The American Century
Here to Serve You: Robbie the Robot and Altaira from the 1956 movie Forbidden Planet.
Chapter 3: Cold War Computing
Moonstruck: Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, Astronaut John Glenn and the Aurora space shuttle from the 1968 movie 2001: a Space Odyssey.
Chapter 4: The Human Machine
Chapter 5: Cybernetic Supremacy
Working the System: Computer operator and IBM System/360 mainframe, 1964.
Chapter 6: The Global Village
Chapter 7: The Cold War Left
Chapter 8: The Chosen Few
Jazz Goes to College: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and a cocktail party in 1950s America.
Chapter 9: Free Workers In The Affluent Society
Chapter 10: The Prophets Of Post-Industrialism
Chapter 11: The American Road To The…
Chapter 12: The Leader Of The Free World
Chapter 13: The Great Game
Chapter 14: The American Invasion Of Vietnam
Bad Moon Rising: A Vietnamese People’s Militia member and her US Air Force prisoner in 1960s Vietnam.
Chapter 15: Those Who Forget The Future Are Condemned To Repeat It
Give It Up: dancers at the KCC sound system, Notting Hill Carnival, London, England, 1999.
Chapter 16: References
