Nowtopia - Interviews and Reviews
June, 2024 A discussion of When Shells Crumble that connects it to Nowtopia on a one-hour long podcast at “Speaking Out of Place”
July, 2021 “Degrowth & Environmental Justice Summer School 2021,” Can Decreix, France, Retrospective analysis of Nowtopia and how it connects to the Degrowth concept.
August, 2018 “Nowtopia” Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark (via Skype)
October, 2013 “Giftival” Conference, Istanbul, Turkey
February, 2012 “Massa Critica e a Utopia do Agora” Fundaçao Getulio Vargas, Salão Nobre, Sao Paulo, Brazil. (teaser)
February, 2012 “Nowtopia: A Utopia do Agora” after Critical Mass in Rendençao Park, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
November, 2010 TEDx Amazonia, Manaus, Brazil
September, 2010 Konflikt.tv, video at Kafe 44 in Stockholm, Sweden
August, 2010 Interview on Rabble.ca
August, 2010 viva-la-bici, viva-la-bici in Spanish
July, 2010 P2P Foundation
June 2010, video at Car-Free Vancouver Day
June, 2010 Experimental Arts Examiner
March, 2010 Giaim Life
January, 2010 The Commoner
November 29, 2009, Ventura County Star
Winter 2010, Earth Island Journal
Sept. 18, 2009 Yes! Magazine
August 6, 2009 Beyondchron.org
Watch Nowtopia in Activism & Non-Profit
May 31, 09 WorkingUSA
Feb. 28, 09 News from Now-Where
April 28, 09 (recorded Feb. 5 09) Google Author Talks (youtube)
March 15, 2009: Austin on Two Wheels
Feb. 8, 09: Something is Happening Right Now
Feb 7, 09: California Writer: Inventing the Future
Jan. 31, 09: at the World Social Forum, Belem Brazil
Jan. 20, 09: skype video interview with DecrescitaFeliz in Italy.
Three Monkeys Online: December edition
Oct. 27, 2008: Indypendent
Fall 2008: Momentum #36
Oct. 16: Now Magazine, Toronto “Attitude Adjuster”
Oct. 10: CBC Radio “The Current” with David Suzuki
Sept. 20: National Post, Canada “Today Bikes, Tomorrow Utopia”
Sept. 13: Allderblob
Sept. 9: ThatRadio.com, Toronto
Sept. 7: Toronto Star, “An Icon Shifts His Gaze to Everyday Life”
Sept. 5: CFRB-AM, John Moore Show, Toronto
Sept. 5: PROUD-FM, Shaun Proulx Show, Toronto
Sept. 5: CIUT-FM The Green Majority, University of Toronto
Sept. 5: CFRU-FM Wake Up!, University of Guelph, Ontario Canada
Sept. 6: Common Dreams “Building an Anti-Economy”
Sept. 4 (recorded in June 08) Steppin’ Out of Babylon
Sept.-October 2008 Orion Magazine “Building an Anti-Economy” (excerpt from Nowtopia)
August 28: “Beyond Voting” in Counterpunch
August 26: “Beyond Voting” in TowardFreedom.com
August 26: Rocco Pendola’s A Distorted Reality
August 8 and 16 Pedal Driven, CKDU-FM, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Part 1 (mp3), Part 2 (mp3)
June 22 Mind Over Matters, KEXP-FM, Seattle, WA
Youtube version
June 22 Speakers Forum, Elliott Bay Books, KUOW-FM, Seattle, WA
June 21 from In Brief, newsletter of Earthjustice, Summer 2008:
June 10, Philly IMC: James Generic
June 4, Feminist Review
June 4, Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade (mp3)
May 23, A Reading Odyssey
May 7, Columbia University Teachers College Symposium podcast
May 4, BillBlogx
April 28, GIY Guide
April 23, 2008 Against The Grain interview (1 hour) podcast
article on Nowtopia and future San Francisco in SF Bay Guardian
+ online Q&A with Erick Lyle
Release Party Reading (scroll down to April 9, 2008)
—John Holloway, author of Change the World Without Taking Power
“The revolution is underway, quietly and noisily, in a million ways, and Chris Carlsson—writer, instigator, bicyclist, boulevardier, urbanist, insurrectionist—has added to it in dozens of ways. This book is one of his finest, which is a lot to say of the main founder of the Critical Mass bicycle rides that spread from San Francisco around the world. It’s cheerful, hopeful, subversive, full of fun facts to know and share and very useful in carrying out your own revolution of everyday life and recognizing it all around you already: a standing—or walking, or pedaling or dancing—invitation to join in full enjoyment of our freedoms and potentials.”
—Rebecca Solnit, author of Hope in the Dark, River of Shadows, and
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
“Chris Carlsson is one of our most original and compelling voices for radical social change in America. Nowtopia opens a window onto today’s vibrant subcultures of technical experimentation and cooperative work, in everything from biofuels to bicycling, gardening to the webworld. More than tinkerers and bohemians, these renegade innovators are pioneers of new ways of living beyond the market and ordinary jobs. Carlsson moves effortlessly from tales of personal liberation to a trenchant analysis of the reconfiguration of class. Nowtopia is a ringing appeal for the liberation of human creativity from the noose of wage-work—before it’s too late.”
—Richard Walker, Professor of Geography, University of California, Berkeley, author of The Capitalist Imperative, The Conquest of Bread, and The Country in the City
“How can today’s manifold projects for a new commons help realize the old dream of a world without bosses? Chris Carlsson’s thought-provoking book is a must-read for everyone grappling with that question.”