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This video rerelease analyzes the film Boogie Nights in order to follow up and understand a debate between Slavoj Zizek and Graham Harman that took place at the Southern California Institute of Architecture on March 1st 2017. It is a rerelease from 2017.
Books Covered
The Quadrule Object by Graham Harman
http://www.zero-books.net/books/quadruple-object-the
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Millennials and the Moments That Made Us is a cultural history of the United States, as seen through the eyes of the largest, most diverse, and most disprivileged generation in American history. The book is a relatable pop culture history that critiques the capitalist status quo our generation inherited - a critical tour of the music, movies, books, TV shows, and technology that have defined us and our times.
Shaun Scott is a Seattle-based writer, historian, and filmmaker. His work has appeared in Jacobin Magazine, Sports Illustrated, and the film journal Senses of Cinema.
Millennials and the Moments That Made Us -by Shaun Scott
http://www.zero-books.net/books/millennials-moments-made-us
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Grafton Tanner, author of Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts, discusses Facebook and the end of the internets with Greg Moffitt on the Legalize Freedom Podcast.
Babbling Corpse is a book that examines how vaporwave celebrates and undermines the electronic ghosts haunting the nostalgia industry and argues that ours is a time of ghosts in machines, killing meaning and exposing the gaps inherent in the electronic media that pervade our lives.
http://www.zero-books.net/books/babbling-corpse
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This Response to Noah Berlatsky's essay "Why Class First Leftists are Wrong" explains why the concept of "class first" leftism is both incoherent and fictional and attempts to explain the difficulties involved in developing class consciousness by presenting an excerpt from Steve Paxton's "Unlearning Marx," analyzing Georg Lukacs' essay on "Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat," and critiquing Adorno's use of the term "living labor" along with his focus on the market or the exchange relation as the source of capitalist ideology.
Transcript of this video on Substack
https://douglaslain.substack.com/p/beyond-berlatsky-or-what-is-class
Unlearning Marx by Steve Paxton
https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/unlearning-marx
Why Class First Leftists Are Wrong by Noah Berlatsky
https://arcdigital.media/why-class-first-leftists-are-wrong-fc768d0666d8
Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat by Georg Lukacs
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm
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Douglas Lain, Ashley Frawley, and Andrew Doyle will be sheltering in place together to discuss the fate of the culture war in the time of Covid-19.
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Chris Cutrone of the Platypus Affiliated Society discusses his essay Afghanistan: After 20 and 40 years with Douglas Lain. Put differently, the last Marxist weighs in on the invasion, occupation, and withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Excerpt from essay:
"AFGHANISTAN WAS INTENDED BY THE U.S. in the 1980s to be the Soviet Union’s Vietnam War. But it is the United States today that is experiencing a second Fall of Saigon in Kabul. If the Great Recession was the historic crisis of neoliberalism, then the U.S. loss of Afghanistan to the return of the Taliban marks the definitive crisis and terminus of neoconservatism. John Bolton ran screaming bloody murder when fired by Donald Trump for resisting ending the Afghanistan war, but it is Joe Biden who now rules over the U.S. withdrawal. This is not some end to U.S. global hegemony — no more than Vietnam was."
Link to essay
https://platypus1917.org/2021/09/02/afghanistan-after-20-and-40-years/
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Derick Varn and Douglas Lain return to discuss Paul Mattick Sr.'s 1939 essay "Roosevelt's 'New' New Deal."
Paul Mattick was a council communist and left critic of Bolshevism. Mattick was heavily influenced by the work of Henryk Grossman, but unlike Grossman, he was a critic of Leninism. His essay on the New Deal argued that support for the New Deal was crippling the workers movement.
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In this week's Theorizing with a Hammer, Derick Varn lays out the ways in which Marxists have used the term "ideology." He focuses on the theory as stated in The German Ideology. He discusses some of the different ways Marx uses the term. In upcoming episodes, he will discuss the various ways other Marxists have attempted to further develop Marx's theory.
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