Paul Mason Postcapitalism
Mia Gallagher
Paul Mason Postcapitalism
With Martina Devlin
Elmwood Hall Sunday 12 June – 5pm Tickets : £ 10 /£ 8
Mia Gallagher
Beautiful Pictures Of The Lost Homeland With Rosemary Jenkinson
Crescent Arts Centre Sunday 12 June – 6.30pm Tickets : £ 6 /£ 4
Over the past two centuries or so , capitalism has undergone continual change - economic cycles that lurch from boom to bust - and has always emerged transformed and strengthened . Surveying this turbulent history , Paul Mason wonders whether today we are on the brink of a change so big , so profound , that this time capitalism itself , has reached its limits and is changing into something wholly new .
At the heart of this change is information technology : a revolution that , as Mason shows , has the potential to reshape utterly our familiar notions of work , production and value ; and to destroy an economy based on markets and private ownership - in fact , he contends , it is already doing so .
In this groundbreaking , Sunday Times top ten book , Mason , the former award-winning Channel 4 presenter shows how , from the ashes of the recent financial crisis , we have the chance to create a more socially just and sustainable global economy .
A bomb blast in the London Underground rips through space and time , unearthing four stories that whirl , collide and pass each other by .
Georgia flees Dublin , embarking on a road trip spiked with the hidden dangers of her past and present . In the 1970s , as the Madden family begins to disintegrate , a disruptive stranger arrives who will bind them , briefly . While the underground bomb ticks down , an elderly German woman , recounts her own war story to a film crew . And all along a parallel reality , we are led through an unsettling and volatile Museum of Curiosities .
The past crosses and weaves with the present and the fragmented lives of four people become a haunting whole .
Mia Gallagher ’ s debut novel , HellFire , was widely acclaimed and received the Irish Tatler Women of the Year Literature Award in 2007 . Mia has received several Literature Bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland and has been writer-in-residence in many different environments .
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