Does the Left Hate the Family? (The Weather Underground vs. Christopher Lasch)
This Zero Books feature includes excerpts from Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism, Chistopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism, and Anselm Jappe's The Writing on the Wall and answers the question: Does the left hate the family?
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We’re doomed. We hear this phrase more and more frequently. Collapse has become the framework through which we write, debate, theorise, and therefore make society.
In such times of crisis, women are more likely to see their rights attacked, their sexuality scrutinised. On social media, it is claimed that women are responsible for the downfall of Western society. To make matters worse, this anti-feminist discourse has merged with internet culture and is being pushed by the algorithm into users’ social media feeds.
Covering everything from the reactionary politics of the “manosphere” to sexual liberation, hookup culture, traditional femininity, the girlboss, and self-help content, Collapse Feminism looks at how this conservative backlash is being orchestrated online and why we must fight against it. Reversing our contemporary catastrophism, Alice Cappelle asks readers to join her and others in building a future that will liberate us all.
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This Response to Noah Berlatsky's essay "Why Class First Leftists are Wrong" explains why the concept of "class first" leftism is both incoherent and fictional and attempts to explain the difficulties involved in developing class consciousness by presenting an excerpt from Steve Paxton's "Unlearning Marx," analyzing Georg Lukacs' essay on "Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat," and critiquing Adorno's use of the term "living labor" along with his focus on the market or the exchange relation as the source of capitalist ideology.
Transcript of this video on Substack
https://douglaslain.substack.com/p/beyond-berlatsky-or-what-is-class
Unlearning Marx by Steve Paxton
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Why Class First Leftists Are Wrong by Noah Berlatsky
https://arcdigital.media/why-class-first-leftists-are-wrong-fc768d0666d8
Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat by Georg Lukacs
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm
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Peter Coffin produces Very Important Documentaries on youtube. His channel covers politics from a philosophical angle with a smattering of nerd culture thrown in and in this livestream we're going to discuss modernity, capitalism, consumerism, and identity.
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In this interview, Kenny speaks with Jamie Allinson, co-founder with Charlotte Bence, Magpie Corvid, China Miéville, Richard Seymour and Rosie Warren of the important Salvage Collective. Salvage was formed in the context of growing discontent among members of the Socialist Workers’ Party with the organisation itself, and now publishes one of the leading journals for contemporary commentary on environmental politics and Marxism, describing themselves as being “for a communism of the ruins.” As well as this, Kenny and Jamie discuss Salvage’s latest book, ‘The Tragedy of the Worker: Towards the Proletarocene’, and Jamie’s independent work on middle eastern politics and the meaning of contemporary counter-revolution.
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What was the Lacanian left and what is its future? A long-distance conversation held over Whatsapp audio messages while driving, out walking or cooking dinner over the course of several months between Daniel Tutt and Gabriel Tupinambá. Tupinambá is the author of The Desire of Psychoanalysis: Exercises in Lacanian Theory and Tutt is the author of Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family. Stay tuned for new installments.
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Buddies Without Organs
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From Cancel Colbert to the Joker Movie, people act as if deciding whether to like a movie is a life or death issue. How and why did we decide that speech and expression had direct material consequences? When did we decide that the world was no longer real but rather a Spectacle?
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Ideology and the Virtual City by Jon Bailes
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This video examines In the Dust of This Planet and Tentacles Longer Than Night before finally succumbing to the abyss.
In the Dust of this Planet - Eugene Thacker
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Tentacles Longer than Night - Eugene Thacker
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Ben Burgis announces his upcoming appearances on the Michael Brooks show and The Serfs and explains why the DSA should endorse Bernie Sanders.
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Give Them an Argument by Ben Burgis
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Zero Books author and Stop the War Coalition founder Chris Nineham discusses what the British state might do in response to an elected Corbyn government.
Nineham's book "The British State: A Warning" is the first attempt since the 1980s to analyze the British state's capacity to block change and derail social movements. A riposte to those who said there could never be a very British coup.
The British State: A Warning by Chris Nineham
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