This video continues an exploration of Corneilius Castoriadis’ book “The Imaginary Institution of Society.” Specifically. we consider his objection to Marx’s understanding of historical materialism and historical change and attempt to defend Marx’s Hegelianism from Castoriadis’ criticisms. Could a dialectical approach to historical change makes sense and if it can make sense of the struggle for socialism. Along the way, we’ll paraphrase Mark Fisher’s “Ghosts of My Life.” Relevant Books Ghosts of My Life by Mark Fisher https://redemmas.org/titles/21945-ghosts-of-my-life--writings-on-depression--hauntology-and-lost-futures Support Zero Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooks Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooks Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0books 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. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yB3xmOGtqI

"When The Hunger Games began in 2008 – it’s since become a defining story for a generation that’s grown up with economic crisis and never ending war – many commentators lumped it in with other young adult genre fiction such as Twilight and Divergent. But The Hunger Games is political. It’s about an elder elite that uses state power, a compliant media and violent spectacle to pacify its population. It’s about how a rebellion is sparked by defiance and spreads through subversive symbols, while the regime responds in the only way it knows." -Michael Harris, Stay Alive Surviving Capitalisms Hunger Games If you've listened to the show for a while maybe you've heard my episodes with this man, or maybe you've heard me mention his book "Welcome to the Rebellion" OVER AND OVER, AND OVER again. Well, the man that started off the livestream is coming back to talk about his release for Zero Books, "Stay Alive: Surviving Capitalisms Hunger Games". Get Dr. Harris Books: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/.../welcome-to-rebellion https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/.../stay-alive... About Dr. Harris: Michael Harris is an independent writer and researcher with a focus on change, specifically the political, technological, social, cultural, economic, and institutional changes required to meet the challenges of the future. Michael has worked in numerous sectors, from education and technology, to government, public services and urban planning. He has produced more than a hundred leading reports for organisations, both his own research and working with leading academics across many fields. His work has been featured in national media including BBC News, The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph, and Prospect magazine, as well as many academic journals. Michael’s PhD research focused on the new right and the Thatcher governments. His subsequent research interests have included reforming education using technology, how leading businesses and organisations innovate in radical new ways, rethinking how public services can be organised around people’s needs, and challenging the closed way in which government policy is developed. Most recently he has focused on planning for future trends, such as climate change, population growth, economic and technological disruption, and the collapse in trust in political institutions. Michael currently lives in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand. Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH! Become a patron now : www.patreon.com/join/BitterLa... Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these plat ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_iaXUjbOhk

Support Zero Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooks Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooks This podcast features a conversation with Glenn Loury. Professor Loury is a Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences at Brown University, the author of The Anatomy of Racial Inequality, the host of the Glenn Show at bloggingheads.tv, a quasi member of the Intellectual Dark Web (he is, at the very least, scheduled to sit on a panel with Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson, and Bret Weinstein in November in order to discuss the topic of race) and a returning guest to this podcast. The Glenn Show at Bloggingheads.tv https://bloggingheads.tv/programs/glenn-show Support us on Patreon and get access to the Herding Cats: Capital Reading Group https://www.patreon.com/zerobooks Watch the most popular Zero Books episodes: http://bit.ly/2KbC2hF Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0books Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooks 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. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8Xob3K_L8w

This video is dedicated to Moishe Postone who passed in 2018. This New Year’s Eve we’ll rewind in order to examine the temporal character of capitalism. While taking excerpts from Capitalist Realism and Ghosts of My Life, this video is mostly an exploration of Moishe Postone’s “Time, Labor and Social Domination.” Zero Books Logo Animations and other animations donated by Brian Cole https://www.instagram.com/robotbloodco/ Clip of Moishe Postone Featured: Temporality and the critique of modernity + Q&A (2016) https://youtu.be/m7lug_wiz_8 Books Mentioned: Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher https://www.amazon.com/Capitalist-Realism-There-No-Alternative/dp/1846943175 Ghosts of My Life by Mark Fisher https://www.amazon.com/Ghosts-My-Life-Depression-Hauntology/dp/1780992262 Time Labor and Social Domination by Moishe Postone https://bit.ly/2QXBMd0 Book Mentioned in this Video An Anthropology of Nothing in Particular https://www.amazon.com/Anthropology-Nothing-Particular-Martin-Frederiksen/dp/1785356992 All Things are Nothing to Me https://www.amazon.com/All-Things-are-Nothing-Philosophy/dp/1780996632 The Writing on the Wall https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Wall-Decomposition-Capitalism-Critics/dp/1785355813/ Music in this Video LILYSHRIMP - Road to Nowhere TALKING HEADS https://youtu.be/8a-KVJEBzgE Negativland (1980) https://youtu.be/DV08nrktjlI Shooting Stars [8 Bit Tribute to Bag Raiders] - 8 Bit Universe https://youtu.be/VmzRXvLkS60 Once in a Lifetime 8bit https://youtu.be/Tv5Nufrbmf4 Macintosh Plus 420 on Guitar by The Guests https://theguests000.bandcamp.com/ Bitch Lasagna 8bit https://youtu.be/Dm5TjhIlB8A 8-bit numa numa gameboy remix https://youtu.be/w_e8Ymr_SK8 The Internationale - 1918 recording "RARE" https://youtu.be/zpVUP1Nc4Rc Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0books Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooks 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. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU86s3uNvpU