I don’t know who Ran Prieur is but his obsessively detailed and entertaining apocalyptic visions are fascinating to read. (And probably infuriating if you don’t lean toward the left side of the political spectrum.)
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Well, it’s a bit misleading to tag the work as being “left leaning” in the usually understood sense of the phrase.
Did a little reading and learned the site expresses ideas that’re on the softer side of an eco-utopian movement.
A movement (or set of beliefs really) which seems to delight in tales of the technosphere going away in favor of some sort of all-natural version of “The Singularity”.
That’s not really “Left” in any political sense (though it’s typical in the US to lump earthy-crunchy types in with the political Left, even though they’re more lifestylists than coherent polisci thinkers) – embedded criticisms of Bush’s purported Iran assault plans notwithstanding.
In one of Prieur’s utopias, “morphogenic fields” play a prominent role – a mystical replacement for telecommunication technology – and some sort of sentient, moody bio crystal thingie replaces computers.
He’s dreaming of a civilizational collapse leading to an updated hippie renaissance world of magic.