In this week's "Theorizing with a Hammer," P.H. Higgins and C. Derick Varn discuss key concepts for understanding Pierre Bourdieu and how to reconcile modern sociology with Marxist and socialist conceptions of class.
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.
In this video we take up the musical genre of vaporwave again in order to understand the Capitalist Realist moment we’re trapped in. We also consider the movie Snowpiercer as we take up an essay by the post-Marxist McKenzie Wark who, in his essay The Sublime Language of My Century, criticized Marx’s critique of political economy in the same way that a music critic might criticize a pop song.
Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
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Babbling Corpse
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Derick Varn and Douglas Lain discuss the UK election result and work out what their new podcast "Pop the Left" should aim at in 2020. Will the social-democratic turn end up liquidating the Marxist 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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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 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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The Zero Squared podcast is returning to our youtube channel. This week Chris Cutrone, who is a member of the Platypus Affiliated Society and a professor at The School of Art Institute of Chicago is a returning guest. He is the author of a controversial essay entitled “Why Not Trump.” The piece was a half-hearted endorsement of Trump as the better adversary for the left, an opinion that is not at all self-evident today under Trump. However, this week we discuss the left theorists Moishe Postone and Adolph Reed in the context of the death of politics.
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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 call for submissions for a new line of books. Realizing Philosophy will take up what’s called the Western tradition with the aim not only of understanding the history of ideas but of realizing them. Inspired by Andrew Feenberg’s book “Realizing Philosophy” we are now aiming to create a series of introductory philosophy books written from a Marxist perspective.
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Music and clips featured
Stravinsky - Agosti - L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird) | Piano Tutorial
https://youtu.be/4Kj5p_wlbUM
What Is Love (8 Bit Remix Cover Version)
https://youtu.be/Z2Pa66C8Y1c
Macintosh Plus 420 on Guitar by The Guests
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John Moran / Manson Opera -5) Subject: Squeaky Fromme
https://youtu.be/_o3oP3NnzCw
How to Play the Piano like Philip Glass
https://youtu.be/nNiOqa1nWgI
Super Mario Theme 8bit
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Don’t Worry Be Happy String Quartet
https://youtu.be/LuW-eIeg_Fk
8bit Brahms
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Steve Reich Counterpoint 8bit
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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 with Mike Watson is about art and its commodification and was produced by YouTuber Plastic Pills. The artists discussed include Warhol, Banksy, Diego Rivera, and Oscar Murillo feature.
Plastic Pills on Youtube
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Can the Left Learn to Meme by Mike Watson
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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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Douglas Lain, Ashley Frawley, and Andrew Doyle will be sheltering in place together to discuss the fate of the culture war in the time of Covid-19.
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Zero Books editor and author Ashley Frawley interviews Philip Cunliffe from the Aufhebungabunga Bunga podcast. Cunliffe is also the author of "Lenin Lives" and a senior lecturer in politics and international relations at the University of Kent.
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Black popular culture has been viewed by some as the creative expression of Black American identity. What does it mean when those who create that popular culture don't belong to the class of Black folks they seem to portray while potentially fulfilling the worst trappings of underclass ideology regarding the Black poor?"
Touré F. Reed:
Dr. Reed earned his BA in American Studies from Hampshire College (Amherst, MA), and his PhD in History from Columbia University (New York, NY). He is a fourth generation African American educator and third generation professor. Having spent his formative years in South West Atlanta, GA and New Haven, CT, Dr. Reed's research interests center on race, class, and inequality. In addition to being a historian of African American and 20th Century US History, Dr. Reed is a shred guitar enthusiast.
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