Jorge Just

I believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther … And one fine morning— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. I’m talking, of course, about public domain and the intricacies of copyright law.

Eman Abdelhadi is a professor, a sociologist, an activist, and the co-author of a beautiful, deeply imaginative, completely engrossing, totally devastating, and ultimately inspiring book called Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052 to 2072. This book, a speculative 2022 novel about a post-catastrophe future, is a master class in world-building.

Mixael Laufer is the spokesperson for an anarchist biohacking group called the Four Thieves Vinegar Collective. Their mission is to create tools that allow people who’ve fallen through the gaps of the health care system to make their own medicines and medical devices. The collective also seems to want to challenge how people think about their relationship with their bodies and health, and expand our understanding of what it means to take care of oneself and others.