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.
C Derick Varn is the ranting voice behind Symptomatic Redness and a reader at Zero Books. This week he rants on the topic of antipolitics while touching upon self-care politics, Angela Nagle and the reaction to her work, Bordiga, and so on.
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Terry Tapp is a red worker from a red state. He’s also an artist and a writer. His book, "A Serf’s Journal: The Story of the United States’ Longest Wildcat Strike" is coming out from Zero Books in 2017.
Micah Uetricht of Jacobin Magazine blurbed the book this way:
Every day, millions of people grind their way through miserable work. And every day, a few of them decide the status quo cannot stand — they have to fight back. Very few of either of those stories ever get told, particularly by the heroic people who lived them. Terry Tapp does both in a tale of unbelievably miserable, dangerous work and courageous, fed-up workers up against incredibly tall odds. Anyone who has worked a terrible job should read it. Anyone who has dreamed about fighting back should study it.
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Colin Drumm is an educator and organizer at the Mimbres School, which is "dedicated to the pursuit of an intellectual life beyond the decaying ruins of the university system." He joins Acid Horizon on Zer0 Books and Repeater Media to discuss his views on higher ed, monetary theory, value theory, and Marxism.
Find Colin on Twitter: @drumm_colin
To support the Mimbres School, subscribe ($7/mo) at https://www.patreon.com/MimbresSchool.
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Acid Horizon
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/acidhorizon
Merch: crit-drip.com
The Philosopher’s Tarot from Repeater Books: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/
The Horror Vanguard
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/horror-vanguard/id1445594437
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard
Buddies Without Organs
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/buddies-without-organs/id1543289939
Website: https://buddieswithout.org/
Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/
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This video is a response to Matt Taibbi’s recent essay “Marcuse-Anon: Cult of the Pseudo-Intellectual.” It is also an exploration of the difficulties that Marcuse was facing during his lifetime. Specifically, the video looks at some of the ways Marcuse’s writings and ideas fit within the context of the struggle for socialism in the 60s, and at the problems and realities, Marcuse was attempting to address.
Essay "Matt Taibbi-One Dimensional Critic" on Substack https://douglaslain.substack.com/p/matt-taibbi-one-dimensional-critic
This video features the music of Bitter Lake!
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Capitalist Realism
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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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New reading groups and content are coming to the channel this year! Acid Horizon is also hosting reading groups on their Patreon channel. Find them on Twitter at @acidhorizonpod
Support Zer0 Books and Repeater Media on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooks
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Check out the projects of some of the new contributors to Zer0 Books:
Acid Horizon
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/acidhorizon
Support the podcast:
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon
Acid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast
Merch: http://www.crit-drip.com
Order 'The Philosopher's Tarot': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/
Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/169wvvhi
Happy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com
Revolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.com
Split Infinities (Craig’s Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/
Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/
The Horror Vanguard
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/horror-vanguard/id1445594437
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard
Buddies Without Organs
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/buddies-without-organs/id1543289939
Website: https://buddieswithout.org/
Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/
Support Daniel Tutt's work by visiting the Torsion Groups
Patreon account: https://patreon.com/torsiongroups
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Susanna Kleeman is a writer from London who works in digital tech and a novelist. Her first book entitled Twice is due out from Zero Books in June of next year.
Twice the Novel Website
https://www.twicenovel.com/
Twice by Susanna Kleeman
https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781789046212
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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.
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In this interview, Kenny Novis speaks with the historian Aaron Leonard about his latest book, Whole World in an Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression 1955-1972. This book deals with the radical history of American folk music during the cold war, as well as the ways in which radical folk singers were repressed by various institutions, including not only the FBI, but also the press and radio. In their discussion, Kenny and Aaron review some of the key themes of the book, including how the nature of political music shifted across the 40s-50s, the place of famous musicians in the resistance to the Vietnam war (including Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Phil Ochs, and more), and the broader relation between art and revolutionary politics.
Buy Aaron’s book here: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/whole-world-in-an-uproar-music-rebellion-and-repression-1955-1972/
Aaron’s website: http://www.aaronleonard.net/
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Other links:
Check out the projects of some of the new contributors to Zer0 Books:
Acid Horizon
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/acidhorizon
Merch: crit-drip.com
The Philosopher’s Tarot from Repeater Books: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/
The Horror Vanguard
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/horror-vanguard/id1445594437
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard
Buddies Without Organs
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/buddies-without-organs/id1543289939
Website: https://buddieswithout.org/
Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/
Support Daniel Tutt's work by visiting the Torsion Groups
Patreon account: https://patreon.com/torsiongroups
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A video by ZerO Books author Mike Watson promoting 'videos by the many', a hashtag campaign from Momentum
in support of Labour in the 2019 UK General Election.
Mike Watson is author of Can the Left Learn to Meme?, out with ZerO Books November 29th.
Video produced by Mike Watson with Mark Rackstraw.
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Alfie Bown is the author of The Playstation Dreamworld, a philosophy of games and politics and Enjoying It: Candy Crush and Capitalism. Along with being a theorist on video games and culture he has recently started writing for the Guardian. He recently wrote a review of Ready Player One entitled “Steven Spielberg’s film portrays video gamers at their worst” and before that he wrote a think piece for them entitled “How video games are fuelling the rise of the far right.” It’s this second piece that he’ll be discussing in this week’s episode.
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