Refuting Jordan Peterson's Capitalist Realism: This Zero Books video does take a look at Mark Fisher's book Capitalist Realism, but is mostly a response to Jordan Peterson's lecture on Political Correctness for The Speakers Action Group.
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.
Conrad Hamilton is a contributor to the upcoming essay collection 'Postmodern Conservatism.' Back in November of 2019 he met up with Doug in Paris to discuss the ideas in his essay.
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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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbYniTtUZuQ
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This video explores how the philosophy of science is struggling with deep epistemic difficulties and how “postmodernism” in the philosophy of science was a reaction against Marxist ideas. Popper’s falsification theory, the ideas of Imre Lakatos, and the need to understand Marxist ideas and the left generally in terms of a long term struggle to realize the values of the Enlightenment are all covered.
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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.
Zer0 Books wants to work against this trend.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLCqWe45fiM
Susanna Kleeman is the woman behind the novel Twice which came out from Zero Books in June of 2021. In this video, she discusses how Capitalism is murdering the imagination even as she discusses her novel.
Relevant Book
Twice by Susanna Kleeman
https://www.susannakleeman.com/twice
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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.
Zero Books aims to work against this trend.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aeb_8nkVVt0
This video will attempt to define reality by examining and taking excerpts from four books: Weird Realism, The Prince and the Wolf, A Serf's Journal, and The Writing on the Wall. Are we merely objects? Is reality determined by a network of relations? Or is there still such a thing as a human subject?
The Writing on the Wall by Anselm Jappe
http://www.zero-books.net/books/writing-on-wall
A Serf's Journal: The Story of the United States' Longest Wildcat Strike
http://www.zero-books.net/books/serfs-journal
Weird Realism
http://www.zero-books.net/books/weird-realism-lovecraft-and-philosophy
The Prince and the Wolf
http://www.zero-books.net/books/prince-and-the-wolf-latour-and-harman-at-the-lse-the
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qUfOg_Z5Qc
Daniel Tutt sits down with the prolific writer and thinker Richard Seymour, Co-Founder of Salvage Magazine and author of The Meaning of David Cameron (2010), Unhitched (2013), Against Austerity (2014) and Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics (2016).
Since 2016, Seymour has turned to Lacanian theory in his writing and analysis of contemporary politics. We discuss what he finds valuable in psychoanalytic theory, the recent fractures over the trans movement in the Lacanian field, the patriarchy question, Oedipal politics, family abolition, meritocracy and Richard's next book project The Little Red Self-Help Book. We conclude with a discussion on the future of the far right.
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This video is part one of a two-part exploration of modernism. It explores the television program Electric Dreams, and specifically the episode 'Real Life' as it sets up some ontological concepts in preparation for a video that will consider whether a radical change as, defined by the modernism, is possible. Before we ask that question we first have to answer questions like:
How do we test the limits of what we can know about the social world? Do our theories have to be falsifiable in a positivist sense? And, secretly, we'll ask "Shall we be Kantians?"
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This video considers the OK Boomer meme through excerpts from Mark Fisher's "Ghosts of My Life" and Harvey J Kaye's "Take Hold of Our History: Make America Radical Again." It includes an interview with an actual boomer as well as Gen X nostalgia for the 90s.
Relevant Books
Take Hold of Our History:Make America Radical Again by Harvey Kaye
https://www.amazon.com/Take-Hold-Our-History-America/dp/1789043557
Ghosts of My Life by Mark Fisher
https://www.amazon.com/Ghosts-My-Life-Depression-Hauntology/dp/1780992262
Music from Jane Hope
https://janehope.bandcamp.com/album/japanese-tracks
And Macintosh Plus’s 420 as covered by the Guests
Video clips come from Storyblocks and the Prelinger Archive
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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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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fusviIy7m4o
Ben Burgis takes on right-wing libertarian notions of freedom after announcing his book “Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left” is available for pre-order. It is already #1 in Philosophy Criticism on Amazon.
Book and Works Cited
Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left by Ben Burgis
https://www.amazon.com/Give-Them-Argument-Logic-Left/dp/1789042100
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Give-Them-Argument-Logic-Left/dp/1789042100
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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.
Zer0 Books wants to work against this trend.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIB6_4s1ET0
Why is there a shortage of toilet paper and what can we last year's debate between Jordan Peterson and Slavoj Zizek tell us about the ideology that directs public reaction in a time of crisis? This video takes excerpts from Zizek's introduction to our upcoming book "Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson" in order to clarify both the current health crisis and the success of the Biden campaign.
Relevant Book
Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1789045533
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1789045533
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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.
Zer0 Books wants to work against this trend.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veWqkDkFgfY