Ben Burgis will discuss his book Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left with our Zero Books Club members from Patreon. Other topics that we will surely cover include:
Whether Ben Burgis is a BETA! Why can't Ben Burgis answer a simple question? Where does logic come from?
Frankie Gaffney is the guest this week, and he’s the author of the novel Dublin Seven and a writer for the Irish Times, the Dublin Inquirer, Broadsheet and many other publications. In May this year, he wrote a piece for the Irish Times entitled Identity Politics is Utterly Ineffective at Anything Other than Dividing People which drew ire online and even inspired a hashtag and an open letter of condemnation.
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This video tackles both the problem of narcissism and the problem of solipsism by examing John August's 2007 film "The Nines," David Swift's "A Left For Itself" and Mike Watson's "Can the Left Learn to Meme?"
Relevant Books:
Can the Left Learn to Meme by Mike Watson
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Z47FCNL
A Left for Itself by David Swift
https://www.amazon.com/Left-Itself-Left-Wing-Hobbyists-Radicalism-ebook/dp/B07YL9379N
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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.
Zer0 Books wants to work against this trend.
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David Auerbach is an American writer with a background in software engineering. He has written on a variety of subjects, including social issues and popular culture, the environment, computer games and literature. In this episode we discuss an essay he wrote for the Daily Beast in September of this year entitled “The Sci-Fi Roots of the Far Right.”
I want to remind you that we’ve moved the Inside Zero Books podcast from the Zero Books blog to Patreon. This will make it easier to get the member’s only podcast on podcatchers. It also means that we’ll be repeating the first year of Inside Zero Books daily on our Patreon account. If you missed Inside Zero Books podcast the first time, or if you just want to hear the old episodes again, they’ll be available.
I want to urge you to pick up Anselm Jappe’s The Writing on the Wall, Philip Cunliffe’s Lenin Lives, and the first book in a new line of books from Zero: Neglected or Misunderstood: Introducing Theodor Adorno. The Neglected or MisUnderstood series presents philosophers of the left that are either little known or widely misread. Stuart Walton starts the series with a look at Adorno, who has been for everything from the Beatles to postmodernism
Included in this episode are clips from Barry Malzberg’s Beyond Apollo and Issac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy. The music includes the theme from The Quiet Earth.
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In this conversation with Slavoj Zizek, Douglas Lain discusses how working in the gig economy as a floating freelancer without a contract is symptomatic of overall trends in capitalist culture. While Zizek reflects on his two volumes: Pandemic and Pandemic 2.
https://www.patreon.com/criticaltheorydouglain
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In his coming book "Aliens, Robots and Virtual Reality," John L. Steadman argues that there is little difference between alien indifferentism and alien inclusionism in the fictional works of H. P. Lovecraft, Isaac Asimov and William Gibson.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Q9R3_7Oqk
Ben Burgis, author of Give Them an Argument: Logic For the Left, critiques Tony Blair and Joe Biden for their deployment of the weak analogy fallacy as a weapon against the Sanders campaign.
Relevant Book
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
Support Zero Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooks
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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=Z0n4kePzoHk
This week’s Zero Books podcast features a conversation with Comrade Communicator from the Intergalactic Worker’s League.
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Derick Varn and Douglas Lain discuss Christopher Lasch's 1969 book "The Agony of the Left." As we prepare for the possibility that the faux "populism" and attendant resistance that defined the Trump years are both on the verge of being relegated to the dustbin of history, we aim to take a step back and consider the left.
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This episode of the Zero Books podcast is a conversation with the Lindsay Shepherd. Shepherd hit the Zeitgeist recently when she was reprimanded for showing her class an excerpt from a debate on gender pronouns that originally aired on the television program the Agenda. The program featured professor Jordan Peterson, who is scheduled to be a guest on this podcast next month, and Shepherd was told that by showing the clip from the program she'd committed an act of violence against transgendered students either in her class or on campus.
We’ve moved the Inside Zero Books podcast from the Zero Books blog to Patreon. This will make it easier to get the member’s only podcast on podcatchers. It also means that we’ll be repeating the first year of Inside Zero Books daily on our Patreon account. If you missed Inside Zero Books podcast the first time, or if you just want to hear the old episodes again, they’ll be available.
If you haven’t already you might pick up Anselm Jappe’s The Writing on the Wall or Stuart Walton’s Neglected or Misunderstood: Introducing Theodor Adorno. Reading Angela Nagle's Kill All Normies would also be a great way to bring in the New Year.
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