While the DNC did conspire against social democracy the capitalist system itself ensures that our political process will remain broken. This video reacts to Capitalist Realism while still holding out hope of getting beyond it.
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.
This video addresses Lindsay Shepherd's announcement that she was leaving the left as well as the right-wing's opportunistic embrace of free-speech. There is no commitment to free speech and free thinking on the right, rather there is only the weaponization of the left's failure to be consistent and sensible.
Kill All Normies - by Angela Nagle
http://www.zero-books.net/books/kill-all-normies
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nj4vadHweU
'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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Ben Burgis evaluates the framing of the Zizek vs. Peterson debate and concludes that the way the debate is being framed includes a category mistake and aims at the wrong political goal. The aim of socialism to create the conditions necessary for individual and collective freedom and not at happiness.
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Give Them an Argument: Logic for 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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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
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In the Dust of this Planet
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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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Eliot Rosenstock is a therapist living in California who, for legal and theoretical reasons, will not be offering therapeutic advice on youtube. His new series "Ask Eliot" is an attempt to counter the Therapeutic Positivism given expression through conventional advice columns and self-help shows. The aim is to go beyond advice-giving to theory and emancipation, or if that proves impossible, then to provide a few laughs.
Book Mentioned in this Video
Zizek in the Clinic by Eliot Rosenstock
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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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Naomi is a transgender woman and online trans rights advocate who reached out after our tweet defending Dave Chappelle's comedy special "The Closer," from GLAAD and other groups that have called for the special to be removed from Netflix. In this video, Naomi tells her own story before discussing the controversy around Chappelle.
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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.
Zero Books aims to work against this trend.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LbsJI7cxCM
On this episode, Will and Adam from Acid Horizon speak with Thomas Nail about his book “Marx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism”. They discuss the origins of Marx’s theory of matter based on his doctoral dissertation on Epicurean philosophy, his critique of rigid atomism, and his dynamic theory of matter in motion that reveals its innate capacity for transformation. Thomas explains the centrality of the notion of movement to notions of labor and valuation in the first volume of Marx’s Capital, as well as his innovative claim that Marx’s theory of value was not one based on labor, but one based on seeing value as a delusion of seeing the products of productive motions as commodities whose qualities were entirely disconnected from those processes—a delusion grounded in the very origins of value itself in primitive accumulation, dispossession, appropriation, and enslavement under Racial Capitalism. Thomas’ work challenges the various revolutions in Marxist interpretation since Engels and boldly asks how we can transform a Marxism based on movement, to a movement based on Marxism.
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A rather playful and utopian vision of socialism that defends video games and gamers from over eager critics of capitalism who have too quickly decided that Pac Man, Mario, and other pixelated heroes are on the side of reaction.
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The Pac Man Principle http://www.zero-books.net/books/pac-man-principle-users-guide-capitalism
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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 video is a response to Jordan Peterson who recently replied to an open letter written by Brent Cooper promoting the upcoming conference “Responding to Peterson in lieu of a debate” with a rather pissy dismissal. Here’s a link to the tweet from Peterson that includes his letter (https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1044572865419497472) and here is a link to information about the confernce: https://www.facebook.com/events/189638748372019/
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ViNL-Jupiter
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Macintosh Plus 420
https://youtu.be/aQkPcPqTq4M
Satie’s Gymnopédies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnop%C3%A9dies
Escape from Alcatraz End Credits
https://youtu.be/UihCyBxyJns
8bit BBC Sherlock Theme
https://youtu.be/vatgTIOr8so
National Anthem of USSR
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Clip from Jim Henson’s 1969 Television Program The Cube
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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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