After Scarcity
MovieTitle | After Scarcity |
User score | 7 |
Release date | Oct 23, 2018 |
Genre | Science Fiction |
Director | Bahar Noorizadeh |
Production country | US |
Run time | 35 min. |
After Scarcity is a sci-fi-essay film that tracks Soviet cyberneticians (1950s-1980s) in their attempt to build a fully-automated planned economy, an attempt that finds traction today as a way of defying financialization. If the problem of socialism was time loss—too much bureaucracy, too much conversation, too many meetings—a socialism-on-speed, counting electricity plus statistics, could move past this limit. The film recounts the history of a moment in time when, against all odds, it seemed feasible to plan for the whole system at once—collective ownership of global resources with the programmed and networked efficiency of Wal-Mart.