Welcome to Project 2052
A Website of Revolutionary Speculative Short Fiction, Visual Art, and Poetry,
Set in the World of Everything for Everyone
Series editors: Eman Abdelhadi and M.E. O’Brien, in close collaboration with
Common Notions Press
Stories
Isabel Plummett and the Silent Nights at LaGuardia Airport
Wren Hearn
Isabel Plummett identifies the birds that shaped her long life in the city, from time as a pleasure militant nurturing avian and human residents of the fledgling sex forest in Central Park to the Brooklyn crows that Covert Talon weaponized against the imperial war machine. She remembers the riot hawk passed into myth and the radical falconers who fought for the streets by taking back the skies.
Rawiya Sardi on the Federation of Mediterranean Communes
“al-communa” (2046–2072)
Wassim Beltaief and Charlotte Bez
Rawiya’s story follows her flight across a collapsing Mediterranean, from her enslavement in Sicily to her liberation during the uprisings that ended Europe’s fascist border regime. After the revolts, she helps rebuild life through underground, earth-based homes that offer shelter from heat and center communal living. The two interviewers meet her in the community kitchen of an underground learning center. The chapter links this natural buildings to the birth of the Federation of Mediterranean Communes and a future shaped by resilience in a harsh climate.
Sharaner Maash, or a Haunting From the Time Before
Eman Abdelhadi and M. E. O’Brien
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Claudio Vitório Sule Bashir and the Restructuring of Manufacturing
M. E. O’Brien
Claudio Vitório Sule Bashir recounts the role of workers’ council in the revolutionary transition in Brazil through his experience at a factory that produces NYC subway cars. He details the role of worker-led theoretical debates and practical experimentation in overcoming capitalist value exchange. Bashir also reflects on how the revolutionary society reduced the harmful consequences of his limitations as a father and husband, and the tensions and contrasts between the residential commune and coordinating communist industrial production on the world-scale.
The Terraces
Haze
A transcribed interview from the archives of an early "dying home" in Minneapolis. Located on the north end of a beloved community park, The Terraces are a place where people gather, grieve, and care for their neighbors as they prepare to pass on. This interview, between a mother and daughter who have supported the home for many years, explores the new ways that people are living and dying together in the Powderhorn Commune.