Comparing Bojack Horseman to the NBC philosophical comedy The Good Place, this video critiques Postmodernism and Deconstruction while trying to answer Max Horkheimer’s objection to Enlightenment Reason and find a philosophical foundation for a new universalism. Excerpts from Mark Fisher’s books Capitalist Realism and Ghosts of My Life set the terms for this one.
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.
Historian Harvey Kaye joins Douglas Lain in order to play a game called "Cancelling the Founding Fathers" (also known as "Cancelling Harvey." One by one he judges which of the founders deserve to be torn down and which ones, if any, deserve to be built up. In the end he heaps praise on Thomas Paine.
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Take Hold of Our History: Make America Radical Again by Harvey Kaye
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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.
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'Interventions' is a new series on Zer0 Books and Repeater Media which explores important philosophical concepts and political terms in short form. Bill Cashmore kicks off the series with a discussion of identity, identity politics, and the history surrounding relevant debates.
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Julian Feeld is a Swiss novelist, filmmaker, and visual artist, with a Bachelor of Arts in Film & Literature from the University of British Columbia. Throughout his life, Julian has lived across South America, Europe, and the United States.
In this stream Julian will discuss the novel in a digital age, his book Fire Hides Everywhere, and how to break from formulas.
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Moishe Postone is a Western Marxist and a Professor of History at the University of Chicago and he is the author of the book Time, Labor and Social Domination a book that won the American Sociological Association’s prize in the theory. In this episode of Zero Squared, Postone discusses whether the working class is the true subject of capitalism and history, the particular particularity of today’s left, and the new Black Lives Matter visa card.
Angela Nagle’s book Kill All Normies is now available for pre-order through Amazon and to let you know that there will be a link to both the UK and US editions in the show notes.
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Kill All Normies
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A reading of an excerpt from David Cromwell's book "Why Are We the Good Guys?"
"Cromwell excels in unpicking the multiple deceits driving Western foreign policies, the ideological veil that keep us from ever seriously questioning the 'benign intentions' of 'our' leaders' or a media which regards itself as an associate 'good guy'." - John Hilley, Zen Politics
http://www.zero-books.net/books/why-are-we-the-good-guys
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Political scientist Norman Finkelstein has been an active critique of how the Holocaust is used to protect the abuses of the state of Israel. His work and advocacy have made him perhaps one of the most canceled intellectuals in recent American history. Finklestein in fact is currently writing a book on the cancel culture phenomenon. We will ask Finkelstein about how criticism of Israel gets one canceled in America and how the nature of ruling class discourse helps facilitate that
About Mr. Finkelstein (from http://normanfinkelstein.com/)
Norman G Finkelstein received his Ph.D. from the Princeton University Politics Department in 1988. He is the author of ten books that have been translated into 50 foreign editions, including THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY: Reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering and, most recently, GAZA: An inquest into its martyrdom.
GAZA: An inquest into its martyrdom (University of California: 2018);
Method and Madness: the hidden story of Israel’s assaults on Gaza (OR Books: 2014);
Old Wine, Broken Bottle: Ari Shavit’s Promised Land (OR Books: 2014);
Knowing Too Much: Why the American Jewish romance with Israel is coming to an end (OR Books: 2012);
What Gandhi Says, About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage (OR BOOKS: 2012);
“This Time We Went Too Far”: Truth and consequences of the Gaza invasion(OR Books, 2010; expanded paperback version, 2011);
Beyond Chutzpah: On the misuse of anti-Semitism and the abuse of history (University of California Press, 2005; expanded paperback edition, 2008);
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering (Verso, 2000; expanded paperback edition, 2003);
Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict (Verso, 1995; expanded paperback edition, 2003);
A Nation on Trial: The Goldhagen thesis and historical truth (with Ruth Bettina Birn) (Henry Holt, 1998);
The Rise and Fall of Palestine: A personal account of the intifada years (University of Minnesota, 1996).
Finkelstein has also published several pamphlets, most recently, Goldstone Recants: Richard Goldstone renews Israel’s license to kill (OR Books, 2011).
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Are there reactionaries in our midst, people with a right-wing agenda pretending to be leftist? Is "The Bellows," the podcast "What's Left?," Malcolm Kyeyune, part of some secret red/brown alliance? What about Red Scare, Chapo, or even Zero Books?
In this Pop the Left conversation Derick Varn and Douglas Lain evaluate two essays from the publication "The Bellows" before discussing just how to handle the possibility of right-wing infiltration of the 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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Former Amazon warehouse employee Chris Smalls is continuing to organize and fight to protect essential workers during the global pandemic. He is in contact with working people around the world, people who are made to work in unsafe conditions. In this interview, we'll catch up on the struggle and discuss how non-union essential workers might join with the unemployed in a common struggle, rather than letting the bosses turn people against each other.
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John Michael Colón is a member of the DSA, a writer for Current Affairs, In These Times, and the LARB, and the guest on this episode of Symptomatic Redness.
Symptomatic Redness is a show on political economy and historical analysis hosted by C. Derick Varn and Amogh Sahu.
Varn and Sahu either talk to each other or interview guests about economics and politics from a historical materialist perspective. The aim is to look at alternate modes of economic and political organization as well as offering commentary on the current moment.
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