BoJohn McClung is a custodian at the University of Washington, a union shop steward for the Washington Federation of State Employees, Local 1488, and a trained anthropologist. In this live stream BoJohn will discuss conditions for custodial workers in Seattle and how custodial workers are responding to and being impacted by covid-19.
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The conservatives strike back in a debate with Matthew McManus about his book "Postmodern Conservatism: Essays for Our Hugely Tremendous Times." Can Matt McManus stand up under pressure? Will the right-wingers win the day? Find out.
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JA Smith, the author of Other People’s Politics, explains how Boris Johnson and Donald Trump use offensive statements in order to further their agenda and how the politics of authenticity works to their advantage.
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Other People’s Politics by JA Smith
https://www.amazon.com/Other-Peoples-Politics-Populism-Corbynism/dp/1782791442
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A primary day Livestream with the contrarian Chris Cutrone from the Platypus Affiliated Society will cover his new essay "Why Not Trump Again?", the Sanders campaign, the coronavirus, and what is left of the left.
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Ian Parker is an activist and academic, a revolutionary Marxist, and practising Lacanian psychoanalyst in Manchester, involved in various political movements in the past forty years. He is also the guest this week as we discuss his book Revolutionary Keywords for the New Left.
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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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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.
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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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Michael Brooks (author of "Against the Web: A Cosmpolitan Answer to the New Right") and Ben Burgis (contributor to "Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson") discuss the Intellectual Dark Web as both symptom and cause of capitalist dysfunction.
Against the Web by Michael Brooks
https://redemmas.org/titles/34612-against-the-web---a-cosmopolitan-answer-to-the-new-right
https://www.waterstones.com/book/myth-and-mayhem/ben-burgis/conrad-bongard-hamilton/9781789045536
Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/myth-and-mayhem-ben-burgis/1136624299?ean=9781789045536
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We speak with James from Zer0/Repeater's current reading group, which is tackling Mark Fisher's dissertation entitled 'Flatline Constructs'. With James, Acid Horizon delves into the work's several concepts and philosophical mediators that appear in the first sections of the book. Please join us for a future reading group sessions on the Zer0/Repeater Patreon account linked below!
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This is the second part of a two-part series on postmodern nihilism. Continuing on from Max Stirner and Nicholas Ray’s 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause, this video considers Fortnite, Martin Heidegger, Duck Game, Liam Mitchell’s new book Ludopolitics: Video Games Against Control, and Bitch Lasagna.
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YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind
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Ludopolitics: Video Games Against Control
https://www.amazon.com/Ludopolitics-Videogames-against-Liam-Mitchell/dp/1785354884
Bash Bash Revolution
https://www.amazon.com/Bash-Revolution-Douglas-Lain/dp/1597809160
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Bitch Lasagna 8bit version
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Macintosh Plus 420 on Guitar by The Guests
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The Music of Conradin Kreutzer
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Philip Glass Improvisation by Torley
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NMESH Warpzone
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NMESH Dream Seqquins
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"Canal Street Blues" King Oliver with Louis Armstrong
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Bitch Lasagna for 10 hours - by Davie504
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