Guy Mankowski interviews Elizabeth Bernholz (aka Gazelle Twin) about how to be a Pop Star. Bernholz is an electronic music composer, producer and musician whose albums include The Entire City and Deep England. Her stage name is Gazelle Twin. Guy's book "Albion's Secret History" compiles snapshots of English pop culture's rebels and outsiders, from Evelyn Waugh to PJ Harvey via The Long Blondes and The Libertines. By focusing on cultural figures who served to define England, Guy Mankowski looks at those who have really shaped Albion's secret history, not just its oft-quoted official cultural history. Relevant Book Albion's Secret History by Guy Mankowski https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/albions-secret-history-snapshots-englands-pop-rebels-outsiders Gazelle Twin onlin https://www.gazelletwin.com/ Support Zero Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooks Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooks Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0books 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. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-38MrAY_nk

Too often the left fails to engage with conservative critics of modernity and this failure allows right-wing tropes and concepts to go unchallenged. For instance, if only the right will address the way social alienation creates a sense of meaninglessness and instability, then only the right will reach people who long for meaning and stability. Further, not answering the strongest arguments from our ideological opponents but merely denouncing them leaves us defenseless when our social authority wears out. This Zero Books podcast is dedicated to Mark Fisher. It is a response to the lectures and videos of University professor and anti-PC youtube star Jordan Peterson. Capitalist Realism http://www.zero-books.net/books/capitalist-realism Exiting the Vampire Castle http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=11299 Music in this video produced by an AI at Jukedeck http://jukedeck.com ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QFZWXtEwLw

I can't lie, I discovered the work of Mike Davis late. I had heard the name before, but didn't really know his work. After hearing him on a podcast earlier in the year I decided to buy his book "City of Quartz" and reading it, I was blown away by it's prescience. If you don't know Mike Davis, he's a social commentator, urban theorist, historian, and political activist. He is best known for his investigations of power and social class in his native Southern California. He is the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award. Again, thank you Mike for taking the time to talk to all of us, we appreciate your work and all that you continue to do. From the book "City of Quartz": "Like the Tramp scares of the 19th century or the Red Scare in the 20th, the contemporary gang scare has become an imaginary class relationship, a terrain of pseudo-knowledge and fantasy projection. But as long as the actual violence was more or less confined to the ghetto, the gang wars were also a voyeuristic titillation to white suburbanites devouring lurid imagery in their newspapers or on the television. Then in December 1987 fission became fear as Southside gang hitmen mistakenly gunned down a young woman outside a theater in the posh Westwood Village entertainment district near UCLA. Westwood's influential merchants, who had recently induced the LAPD to enforce curfew ordinances to repel non-white youthfrom the Village, clamored for extra police protection, while local Council Member Zev Yaroslavsky, then essaying a Koch-like challenge to Mayor Bradley, posted a huge reward for apprehension of the 'urban terrorists'. You can read Mike's latest piece in New Left Review here: newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/ri…2FdJfrM4-udUdl_Y You can watch Mike earlier in the year on Democracy Now! here: www.democracynow.org/2020/5/22/mike…face_dangerous You Can Buy Mike's latest book, "Set the Night on Fire" here: www.versobooks.com/books/3164-set-…e-night-on-fire Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programming, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH! Become a patron now : www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents? ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVG-0jgro6Q

Sophia & Ezri, Jason Myles, Kyle Thompson, Derick Varn, Tom O'Brien, Jake Verso, and JG Michael have hijacked the Zero Books youtube channel in the name of the Emancipation Network. This three-hour conversation will provide you with analysis beyond the hot take as the US Presidential election lingers on. Emancipation Network on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7-X8326P0dLfAyTeOe4HXQ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StpMgnGtwuE