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 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk8hdGzI8W4

Zer0 Books proudly introduces a host of new programming. Zer0 Books Archives, Profane Illuminations, and The K-Files are set to debut in the coming days and weeks. Support Zer0 Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooks Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooks Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0books Check out the projects of some of the new contributors to Zer0 Books: Acid Horizon Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/acid-horizon/id1512615438 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/acidhorizon Profane Illuminations Twitter: https://twitter.com/profaneshow The Horror Vanguard Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/horror-vanguard/id1445594437 Buddies Without Organs Website: https://buddieswithout.org/ Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/buddies-without-organs/id1543289939 Xeongothic: https://xenogothic.com/ ..and more to come in the near future! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOZJLE8O09A

Responding to some recent Zero Books podcasts (The Lenin Legend and Did Marx Hate Liberals?) Chris Cutrone returns to discuss an essay he wrote in 2011 entitled "Lenin's Liberalism." Relevant Essay Lenin's Liberalism by Chris Cutrone https://platypus1917.org/2011/06/01/lenins-liberalism/ 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. Zero Books aims to work against this trend. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3STHzE5V-g

In celebration of recently passing 50k youtube subscribers this video is reintroducing Zero Books as we set out to rethink critical theory, starting with the Situationist International’s Guy Debord. This video includes a modified dérive or an unplanned journey through an urban landscape. The aim of the journey is to discover the mood of criticism as it has been laid out by city planners and to arrive at some sort of unplanned objective conclusion. Related Books The Writing on the Wall by Anselm Jappe https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-writing-on-the-wall-anselm-jappe/1125511708 New Work New Culture by Frithjof Bergmann https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/new-work-new-culture-frithjof-bergmann/1129393134?ean=9781789040647 Kill All Normies by Angela Nagle https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/kill-all-normies-angela-nagle/1126407450 Give Them an Argument: Logic For the Left by Ben Burgis https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/give-them-an-argument-ben-burgis/1131185232?ean=9781789042108 The Semiotics of Happiness by Ashley Frawley https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/semiotics-of-happiness-ashley-frawley/1118867463 The Playstation Dreamworld by Alfie Bown https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-playstation-dreamworld-alfie-bown/1126406907 Apocalyptics by C Derick Varn Bash Bash Revolution by Douglas Lain https://www.powells.com/book/-9781597809160 Zero Books Logo Animations and other animations donated by Brian Cole https://www.instagram.com/robotbloodco/ Music Includes We May Be On the Way of Realising One of Our Fondest Dreams By the ISO, a new collaborative project by John-Robin Bold and Andy Cowling. https://soundcloud.com/insearchofiso Macintosh Plus 420 on Guitar by The Guests https://theguests000.bandcamp.com/ Video and Music Clips from Storyblocks and the Prelinger Archive 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. Zer0 Books wants to work against this trend. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SADS3xa4apk