In this unprecedented fusion of memoir, poetry collection, and economic manifesto, Roger Lewis traces an intellectual odyssey from the coal mines of South Wales to the frontiers of digital-age resistance. Drawing inspiration from Shelley's vision of poets as "unacknowledged legislators," Lewis demonstrates how verse can serve as economic analysis and political action.
Key Themes:
- Monetary reform and the critique of usury
- Artificial scarcity versus natural abundance
- Housing justice and community land trusts
- AI ethics and technological democracy
- Mutual aid and cooperative alternatives
- The intersection of poetry and economics
Lewis channels William Blake's visionary imagination, William Morris's practical socialism, and Ezra Pound's economic analysis (purged of toxic elements), while adding contemporary insights on digital surveillance, algorithmic tyranny, and the financialization of daily life.
From Socratic dialogues between Heraclitus and Parmenides on economic reality, to Queen Mab addressing Timon's digital misanthropy?this work refuses the boundaries between genres, disciplines, and centuries.
