Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
All of my writing is meant to explore and discover, not to express. I write in order to learn, to think things I wouldn’t think otherwise, or to imagine in new ways. Poetry abd nonfiction both do that for me. Speculations on Postcapitalism is my fourth book, and I have two others coming: The Great Mechanism and What Is Liberalism? I study capitalism and history to understand what gives that system its relentless power and inevitability. Why does capitalism keep winning? And how is it eventually going to lose? For me, it is all about asking these questions.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Speculations on Postcapitalism: How digitalization is disrupting everything we know about modern civilization, came from the insight that digital products are economically very different from normal products–so much so that markets can’t function for these products. More and more products are becoming digital, and that means the whole economy could be disrupted. If that happens, what happens to our society, which is built around capitalism. The intrigue of these questions is what inspired the writing.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I write very morning, and I sometimes write very intensively. Speculations was drafted originally in five weekends.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
In this case, Paul Mason’s Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future and Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams book Inventing the Future. But I read widely, and have been deeply influenced by poets Robert Bly and William Stafford, psychologists James Hillman and C.G. Jung, and by Joseph Campbell.
What are you working on now?
Two new books which I mentioned, and also a book of essays on the #MeToo moment, as some have called it, in which I try to address men and their experiences–not as an apologist, but as one trying to give men the tools they need to stop doing the stuff #MeToo is talking about.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’m still learning this.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write, write, write, and don’t ever lose that focus. I did, and I regret it.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Write two pages a day. It inevitably becomes more.
What are you reading now?
Hah! Mostly my editor’s feedback!
What’s next for you as a writer?
I have a lot of projects coming toe fruition, which I hope will be useful to readers. Everything I do is to try to find a different perspective, and often to try to clarify language, especially about cultural terminologies. So, I will just keep going!
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
James Hillman’s, Revisioning Psychology.
Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart poetry anthology.
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