Zizek Clicks a Cookie: Guide to Sublime Object of Ideology
Slavoj Žižek is perhaps the world’s most famous philosopher. However, the arguments of the “Elvis of Critical Theory” are sometimes difficult to fully grasp. We'll follow his example and use pop-cultural references in an attempt to make the ideas more accessible. This video series will take on the ideas in Žižek’s first book: The Sublime Object of Ideology in an effort to explicate and evaluate them. Find out if Žižek’s is a philosophy without milk or without cream and ENJOY eating from the trashcan.
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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This video is an attempt to tackle the question “Is Life Worth Living?” However, it ends up answering a different question, namely, “What sort of cultural/psychological structures must be either held onto or created if life is going to be meaningful?”
Excerpts from Eugene Thacker’s In The Dust of This Planet and Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism are featured. Thacker’s work is perhaps misread, but in what I hope is a creative and constructive way. There is an attempt to turn his pessimism inside out.
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Books Covered
Capitalist Realism
http://www.zero-books.net/books/capitalist-realism
In the Dust of this Planet
http://www.zero-books.net/books/in-the-dust-of-this-planet
Music and clips featured
Debussy plays Debussy | Clair de Lune (1913)
https://youtu.be/Yri2JNhyG4k
Lili Boulanger-Pie Jesu (Intro by Stan Brakhage)
https://youtu.be/DfqUEVN7JLc
Saint Saens: Danse Macabre/First Electrical Recording
https://youtu.be/qAT-5BKEJ2U
Macintosh Plus 420
https://youtu.be/aQkPcPqTq4M
Faure plays Faure
https://youtu.be/_tQ36TFvNoM
Donated Guitar version of Macintosh Plus 420 by the Guests
https://theguests000.bandcamp.com/
National Anthem of USSR
https://youtu.be/U06jlgpMtQs
Microchips Make My Head Hurt
https://viciousviscous.bandcamp.com/
In The Flesh Pink Floyd 8bit Version
https://youtu.be/9hl3PARtBaE
Satie’s Gymnopédies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnop%C3%A9dies
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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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Mike Watson, author of The Memeing of Mark Fisher talks to Adam Ray Adkins about the 'Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism and What to do About It'. Out from Zero Books in September.
Mike And Adam run the Acid Left platforms:
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insta: @The Acid Left
twitter: @acid_left
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Narcissism is the defining pathology of the twenty-first century, but what if it is not self-obsession that defines us but a need for self-transformation?
Narcissus in Bloom is a short history of the self-portrait, beginning with Renaissance painters like Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt and Caravaggio, through to photographers and celebrities like Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, Lee Friedlander and Hervé Guibert.
Analysing the ways that so many artists have regarded their own image, how might the age of the selfie be considered as a time of transformation rather than stasis? By returning to the original tale of Narcissus, and the flower from which he takes his name, this book offers an alternative reading of narcissism from within the midst of a moralising subgenre of books that argue our self-obsession will be the death of us. That may be so. But what will we become after we have taken the watery track, and rid ourselves of the cloistered self-image given to us by late capitalism?
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The Horror Vanguard
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/horror-vanguard/id1445594437
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Buddies Without Organs
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/buddies-without-organs/id1543289939
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Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/
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In this episode of Pop the Left Douglas Lain and Derick Varn discuss Chris Cutrone's teach-in on Lukacs entitled "CPGB contra Lukacs." Cutrone's lecture was uploaded to the Platypus Affiliated Society's youtube page on Jan 14, 2014 and was a response to Mike McNair's Essay "Lukács: The philosophy trap" which was published in the Weekly Worker in November of 2013.
The Teach-In from 2014
CPGB contra Lukacs teach-in by Chris Cutrone of Platypus
https://youtu.be/FyAx32lzC0U
Why still read Lukács? The place of “philosophical” questions in Marxism
https://platypus1917.org/2014/02/01/why-still-read-lukacs-the-place-of-philosophical-questions-in-marxism
Relevant Essays:
Mike Macnair, "The philosophy trap" 11/21/13
https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/987/lukacs-the-philosophy-trap/
Chris Cutrone, "Defending Marxist Hegelianism against a Marxist critique" 8/11/11
https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/878/defending-marxist-hegelianism-against-a-marxist-cr/
Georg Lukacs, Original Preface (1922) to History and Class Consciousness (1923)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/preface-1922.htm
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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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This is the third video in a series of three videos about Noam Chomsky and Slavoj Žižek . It also features an examination of Ursula K Le Guin's critique of modernism from her novel "The Lathe of Heaven."
The two earlier videos in this series are
Chomsky vs Žižek (Electric Dreams)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDJKG6VubJ4&t=493s
Chomsky vs Žižek pt 2 (Capitalist Realism)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpQJQiHJ8GA
The Zero Books titles mentioned include Mark Fisher's Ghosts of My Life, Owen Hatherley's Militant Modernism, and Federico Campagna's The Last Night.
This video was animated and edited by Púca Studios (formerly known as Pixel8.media).
Ghosts of My Life - by Mark Fisher
http://www.zero-books.net/books/ghosts-my-life
Militant Modernism - by Owen Hatherley
http://www.zero-books.net/books/militant-modernism
The Last Night - by Federico Campagna
http://www.zero-books.net/books/last-night
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I can't lie, I discovered the work of Mike Davis late. I had heard the name before, but didn't really know his work. After hearing him on a podcast earlier in the year I decided to buy his book "City of Quartz" and reading it, I was blown away by it's prescience. If you don't know Mike Davis, he's a social commentator, urban theorist, historian, and political activist. He is best known for his investigations of power and social class in his native Southern California. He is the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award.
Again, thank you Mike for taking the time to talk to all of us, we appreciate your work and all that you continue to do.
From the book "City of Quartz":
"Like the Tramp scares of the 19th century or the Red Scare in the 20th, the contemporary gang scare has become an imaginary class relationship, a terrain of pseudo-knowledge and fantasy projection. But as long as the actual violence was more or less confined to the ghetto, the gang wars were also a voyeuristic titillation to white suburbanites devouring lurid imagery in their newspapers or on the television. Then in December 1987 fission became fear as Southside gang hitmen mistakenly gunned down a young woman outside a theater in the posh Westwood Village entertainment district near UCLA. Westwood's influential merchants, who had recently induced the LAPD to enforce curfew ordinances to repel non-white youthfrom the Village, clamored for extra police protection, while local Council Member Zev Yaroslavsky, then essaying a Koch-like challenge to Mayor Bradley, posted a huge reward for apprehension of the 'urban terrorists'.
You can read Mike's latest piece in New Left Review here:
newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/ri…2FdJfrM4-udUdl_Y
You can watch Mike earlier in the year on Democracy Now! here:
www.democracynow.org/2020/5/22/mike…face_dangerous
You Can Buy Mike's latest book, "Set the Night on Fire" here:
www.versobooks.com/books/3164-set-…e-night-on-fire
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Acid Horizon and Sean from Wyrd Signal are joined by the philosopher, theologian, and author David Bentley Hart to discuss the nature and philosophy of mind amongst today's AI-anxious conceptual landscape. We discussed his critiques of David Chalmers and Daniel Dennett in terms of his rejection of a computational model of the mental in light if the intentionality and synthetic unity of consciousness; and the political stakes of a reduction of the conscious to the machinic in times of encroaching reaction and Empire.
Some writing by David:
Reality Minus: https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/reality-minus
The New Illusionist: https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-illusionist
Wyrd Signal (Podcast with Sean): https://soundcloud.com/wyrdsignalpodcast
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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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Patreon account: https://patreon.com/torsiongroups
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Chris Nineham answers questions about the current Brexit crisis and PM Boris Johnson’s attack on parliamentary democracy. He also speculates on Jeremy Corbyn’s future and the possibility of a working class version of Brexit.
Relevant Books
The British State: A Warning by Chris Nineham
https://www.waterstones.com/book/british-state-the/chris-nineham/9781789043297
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Blue Light of the Screen is about what it means to be afraid — about immersion, superstition, delusion, and the things that keep us up at night.
A creative-critical memoir of the author’s obsession with the horror genre, Blue Light of the Screen embeds its criticism of horror within a larger personal story of growing up in a devoutly Catholic family, overcoming suicidal depression, uncovering intergenerational trauma, and encountering real and imagined ghosts.
As Cronin writes, she positions herself as a protagonist who is haunted by what she watches and reads, like an antiquarian in an M.R. James ghost story whose sense of reality unravels through her study of arcane texts and cursed archives. In this way, Blue Light of the Screen tells the story of the author’s conversion from skepticism to faith in the supernatural.
Part memoir, part ghost story, and part critical theory, Blue Light of the Screen is not just a book about horror, but a work of horror itself.
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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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