David Swift on the Hobbyist Left, Labour's Defeat and the Future
David Swift is the Kreitman post-doctoral fellow at Ben Gurion University, in the faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. He has published in journals including the History Workshop Journal and the Women's History Review, as well as writing for The Independent and LabourList. Swift has taught at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Central Lancashire. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO9b3SH0Jcw
Ben Burgis responds to objections from a fan of Austrian Economics named Gene Epstein in this video recap of a debate between Gene and Ben on the Part of the Problem podcast. Should worker’s forego political organizing and use crowdsourcing to implement a hostile takeover of capitalism itself? Will socialism undo the freedoms we enjoy today? Are boycotts enough?
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Give Them an Argument: Logic for The Left by Ben Burgis
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Tonight It’s a World We Bury explores a range of tendencies central to black metal and uncovers their potential as critiques of capitalism.
Tonight It’s a World We Bury is a radical re-writing of the history and politics of black metal music.
Challenging the commonly-held perception that black metal is a genre of the right — full of wannabe Vikings, Nazis, skinheads and other unsavoury characters — Tonight It’s a World We Bury looks at an array of black metal artists to re-affirm the genre as radically anticapitalist, revolutionary and left-wing.
Utilizing an eclectic range of black metal bands, including Darkthrone, Burzum, Liturgy and Deathspell Omega, and taking in the works of Marx, Nietzsche, Deleuze and more, Tonight It’s a World We Bury is a book on black metal like no other.
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JA Smith returns to discuss the leadership qualities of Jeremy Corbyn and to put to rest the usual objections to a Labour government.
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Pascal Robert joins Douglas Lain to discuss Matt Taibbi's recent essay "Marcuse-Anon: Cult of the Pseudo-Intellectual." Robert is a writer, essayist, and political commentator for the Black Agenda Report, and he is the co-host of the This is Revolution Podcast.
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Joanna Demers’ essay “The Necks and Marx's Economy of Time” asks what kind of music helps us to imagine a break with capitalist logic. Her answer is simple: Minimalism.
Demers’ is chair of Musicology at the USC Thornton School of Music and the author of the books Drone and Apocalypse and Anatomy of Thought Fiction. In this video essay, she explores Marxism’s commitment to the future, the teleology at work in our linear orientation, and the promise of timelessness.
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Drone and Apocalypse by Joanna Demers
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Anatomy of Thought Fiction
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William Basinki’s Watter Music II
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Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk - Suite - Orchestre de Paris/Rostropovich (2006)
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The East is Red
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160 - Interactive Light & Sound Installation
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Lawrence Welk Muskrat Ramble
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Negativland’s The ABCs of Anarchism
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8bit version of Fly Like an Eagle by the Steve Miller Band
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Satie - Socrate - III(a) - Mort De Socrate
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8bit version of Pink Floyd’s Time
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Sonny and Cher’s I Got You Babe (only slowed down)
The Necks Drive By
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The Necks Aether
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The Necks Body
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Steve Reich Drumming (Portland Percussion Group)
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The Clock by Christian Marclay
The Future: Batteries Included by Nick Masterson
Nostalgia 1971 by Hollis Frampton
Sliding Doors
The Dante Quartet by Stan Brakhage
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Mothlight by Stan Brakhage
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Window Water Baby Moving by Stan Brakhage
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