This is the second video in a series of two videos on the topic of the Intellectual Dark Web. How and why are these free speech warriors misunderstanding Marx and how is it that Capitalist Realism is contributing to the rise of the right and the weakness of the left.
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.
From "Bataille: Nietzsche or Communism? An Interview with Stuart Kendall and Acid Horizon" https://youtu.be/VZYugV0DyYk #shorts
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This video offers commentary on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide.
Andrew Wallis is a freelance journalist, academic, and author, and a leading expert in the African Great Lakes Region, especially Rwanda. His previous book, "Silent Accomplice: The role of France in the Rwandan genocide' was praised as a 'damning new book' by the New York Review of Books, and his new book “Stepp’d in Blood” is coming out Zero Books.
Stepp’d in Blood by Andrew Wallis
https://www.amazon.com/Steppd-Blood-Architects-Rwandan-Genocide/dp/1789042860
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To celebrate new Zer0 Classics edition of Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism, Adam and Will spoke to Alex Niven about his new introduction. Alex joins us in reflecting upon the historical context of the book in the midst of New Labour's Thatcherism, the student riots, and the global financial crisis, as well as exploring the key concepts of the book such as Market Stalinism, Depressive Hedonia, and the spectre of the Marxist Supernanny of postcapitalist desire. As Austerity and neoliberalism try to find a second wind in the midst of global crisis, we ask, how do we envision the emancipated future?
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Chris Nineham is a British political activist and founder member of the Stop the War Coalition serving as National Officer and Deputy Chair of the Stop the War Coalition in the UK. He served under Jeremy Corbyn from 2011 to 2015. In this Livestream, he'll be discussing the meaning and consequences of Corbyn's loss in this week's general election.
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Derick Varn and Douglas Lain discuss last week's riot at the Capitol Building and the AOC vs. Jimmy Dore debate. Along the way the topics of standpoint epistemology, class consciousness, and the difference between a coup and a revolution will be explored.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiKdVVIfCJI
Oz Katerji is a writer, filmmaker and journalist with a focus on the Middle East. He is a foe of Bashar al-Assad and the guest on this week’s Inside Zero Books podcast.
Before the interview begins I want to make it clear that releasing this interview is not meant to be taken as support for US or UK military intervention or for US led regime change in Syria. It is, instead, an attempt to allow a vocal and passionate critic of Assad to be heard. Whatever the Anglophone left decides to do, whatever position or action we take, we should not hide from the character of the Assad regime.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDCS9spUo4Y
Txgen Meyer is a writer and critical theorist living in California. She participated in a panel discussion that was billed as a Struggle Session aimed at me that took place during an anti-Jordan Peterson conference in Boise. The struggle session was deemed to be a necessary response to a Zero Books video entitled Intersectionality, Queer Eye and the Good Place that was released in October of 2018. Txgen was on the panel representing a trans/black/queer perspective, and also as a voice of reason. She is the guest this week as we discuss her essay Networked Ressentiment on anti-blackness and white terrorism.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJHdA-SlhH4
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This video considers what it would take to change both the material and ideological basis of modern society by taking excerpts from Alfie Bown’s Enjoying It: Candy Crush and Capitalism and Douglas Lain’s Bash Bash Revolution. The video features clips from an unfinished short based on Lain’s novel.
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Bash Bash Revolution by Douglas Lain
https://www.amazon.com/Bash-Revolution-Douglas-Lain/dp/1597809160
Enjoying It: Candy Crush and Capitalism
https://www.amazon.com/Enjoying-Candy-Capitalism-Alfie-Bown/dp/1785351559
Zero Books Logo Animations and other animations donated by Brian Cole
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Music and clips featured
NMESH Welcome to the Warp Zone
https://youtu.be/n7zyMGr9VfE
Elise (The Adjustment Bureau Cover) - T Velocity
https://youtu.be/vnjAq7zMGsM
Negativland 1980
https://youtu.be/DV08nrktjlI
When Did Indie Rock Die Again by Viscious Viscous
https://theguests000.bandcamp.com/
The Lawrence Welk Show: Skokiaan
https://youtu.be/PkBo_y-8Nw8
Good Days (Only Ruin the Bad Ones)
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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=kNTkT5L4my8
This is the livestream for our Capital Volume 1 discussion group. This week we'll be tackling Chapter 2 on exchange.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hqxEi0Ypa4