Zero Books Manifesto: The modern world is at an impasse. Disasters scroll across our smartphone screens and we’re invited to like, follow or upvote, but critical thinking is harder and harder to find. Rather than connecting us in common struggle and debate, the internet has sped up and deepened a long-standing process of alienation and atomization.
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Why would someone ever voluntarily become a sex worker? Liara Roux writes about the salacious details leading up to her decision to become a career sex worker, and the unexpected truths she learned while working in the industry.
Liara Roux is accustomed to being mislabelled and misunderstood.
As a child, Liara’s inquisitive, instinctive, and rebellious nature was frequently problematised in a world designed around the requirements of their neurotypical, cis, heterosexual male colleagues. Coming of age in an oppressively restrictive home, they shuffled tarot and explored self portraiture to rationalise the injustice of chronic pain, toxic lovers, and the cruel silence of divinity.
Critiquing capitalism’s mechanisms of exploitation, the conservatism of Western medicine, and the politics surrounding sex work, Whore of New York: Confessions of a Sinful Woman is a candid study of artistic awakening, and both spiritual and sexual growth after abuse, seen through the eyes of a proud outsider.
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Acid Horizon
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The Horror Vanguard
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Buddies Without Organs
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In 1963, the West Indian Marxist C.L.R. James posed the deceptively benign question: “What do they know of cricket, who only cricket know?”
A challenge to the public to re-consider cricket and its meaning, James was, all too subtly, attempting to counter the game’s elitist orthodoxy. Regrettably, he failed, and the history of cricket in England remains as it did a century ago — until now.
In examining recreational rather than professional (first-class) cricket, Different Class does not merely challenge the orthodoxy of English cricket, it demonstrates how the values and belief systems at its heart were developed in order to divide the English at every level of the game.
Indeed, be it the discrete cricket cultures of the “urban” North and the “rural” South of England, gender, social class or race; the history of recreational cricket tells us more about the (un)changing nature of English society — and how it works — than any study of the first-class game ever could.
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Acid Horizon
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/acidhorizon
Merch: crit-drip.com
The Philosopher’s Tarot from Repeater Books: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/
The Horror Vanguard
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/horror-vanguard/id1445594437
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard
Buddies Without Organs
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/buddies-without-organs/id1543289939
Website: https://buddieswithout.org/
Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/
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Nobody can deny that we’re facing an environmental crisis. Animal species are dying off at an alarming rate, the oceans are dying, and the climate is changing. Even worse, our way of understanding and trying to address this crisis is captured within the very system that’s generating the crisis. This video takes excerpts from Leigh Phillips “Austerity Ecology,” and Frithjof Bergmann’s “New Work/New Culture” in an effort to find an exit from the kind of thinking that makes change seem impossible.
This video was made in collaboration with Art House Politics:
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Related Books
New Work/New Culture by Frithjof Bergmann
https://www.amazon.com/New-Work-Culture-Want-Strengthens/dp/1789040647
Austerity Ecology and the Collapse Porn Addicts by Leigh Phillips
https://www.amazon.com/Austerity-Ecology-Collapse-Porn-Addicts-Progress/dp/1782799605
Background Music from Storyblocks
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Macintosh Plus 420 on Guitar by The Guests
https://theguests000.bandcamp.com/
420 by Macintosh Plus
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Zero Books Manifesto:
The modern world is at an impasse. Disasters scroll across our smartphone screens and we’re invited to like, follow or upvote, but critical thinking is harder and harder to find. Rather than connecting us in common struggle and debate, the internet has sped up and deepened a long-standing process of alienation and atomization.
Zer0 Books wants to work against this trend.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0mf7j756io
Originally from Canada and a member of Nipissing First Nation, Ashley Frawley is a senior lecturer in sociology and social policy at Swansea University in Wales. She is also an editor for Zero Books and a frequent contributor to the Zero Books youtube channel and podcast.
From his Battle of Ideas Bio:
Ralph Leonard is a British-Nigerian writer who was born in Eastbourne, Southern England, in 1996. He is a contributor to Areo magazine and has done previous work for NOTA Network. He writes on issues to do with politics, religion, culture, human rights and international affairs. As an ardent secularist and leftist, Ralph is critical of certain failings of many sections of the existing Left.
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In this video, we use the incel’s concept of the “black pill” in order to examine the philosophy of nihilism and pessimism.
Eugene Thacker’s “Starry Speculative Corpse" is the second volume of the "Horror of Philosophy" trilogy, together with the first volume, "In The Dust of This Planet", and the third volume, "Tentacles Longer Than Night."
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Book Mentioned in this Video
Starry Speculative Corpse by Eugene Thacker
http://www.zero-books.net/books/starry-speculative-corpse
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Macintosh Plus 420 on Guitar by The Guests
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Philip Glass Improvisation by Torley
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Everybody Knows by Leonard Cohen (piano cover)
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Love Story Theme (piano cover)
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Zero Books Manifesto:
The modern world is at an impasse. Disasters scroll across our smartphone screens and we’re invited to like, follow or upvote, but critical thinking is harder and harder to find. Rather than connecting us in common struggle and debate, the internet has sped up and deepened a long-standing process of alienation and atomization.
Zer0 Books wants to work against this trend.
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This video tackles the following topics: modern despair, the urge to log off, and our fading nostalgia for cyberutopia. It features excerpts from an upcoming book by RU Sirius entitled "The Freaks in the Machine" and some speculation about Matt Christman’s upcoming book for Zero, a book tentatively entitled “Behold a Fail Horse." That second title is still being written. If you're a fan of Christman tweet some words of encouragement to him.
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Zero Books Manifesto:
The modern world is at an impasse. Disasters scroll across our smartphone screens and we’re invited to like, follow or upvote, but critical thinking is harder and harder to find. Rather than connecting us in common struggle and debate, the internet has sped up and deepened a long-standing process of alienation and atomization.
Zero Books aims to work against this trend.
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Mike Watson looks at the new season of Stranger Things through the lens of Theodor Adorno. Watson’s book is due out on the 29th of November this year from Zero Books.
Book featured:
Can the Left Learn to Meme by Mike Watson
Mike Watson: Script, Voiceover. twitter: @_leftaesthetics
Ian Watson: Artistic Direction
Thanks to Adam Ray Adkins for the Adorno Montage. insta: @art.o.dirt
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Zero Books Manifesto:
The modern world is at an impasse. Disasters scroll across our smartphone screens and we’re invited to like, follow or upvote, but critical thinking is harder and harder to find. Rather than connecting us in common struggle and debate, the internet has sped up and deepened a long-standing process of alienation and atomization.
Zer0 Books wants to work against this trend.
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This episode of the Zero Books podcast is a conversation with the Alfie Bown. Alfie is the author of the Zero Books title Enjoying It: Candy Crush and Capitalism and he recently penned an essay for the Paris Review entitled The Screen of Enamoration: Love in the Age of Google. In this episode, we discuss Tinder, AI, augmented reality, and robot love.
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Profane Illuminations is a Gothic Marxist show about seeking the material circumstances of our shared situation. Hosted by @thelitcritguy and @laborkyle.
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