Why Class Matters: Daniel Tutt and Lillian Cicerchia
Lillian Cicerchia, co-host of What's Left of Philosophy wrote an essay "Why Does Class Matter" which was the first article about class (specifically) in academic philosophy in several decades. We discuss her theories on class with a focus on the theme of "non-domination" in the labor market.
Danny Scott reads a script from Jason Barker on the topic of fate, time and Marx. Barker’s novel Marx Returns combines historical fiction, psychological mystery, philosophy, differential calculus and extracts from Marx and Engels's collected works to reimagine the life and times of one of history's most exceptional minds, in this next fiction offering from Zero Books.
Video Script by Jason Barker
Narration from Danny (Badman) Scott
Zero Books Logo Animations and other animations donated by Brian Cole
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Book Mentioned in this Video
Marx Returns by Jason Barker
http://www.zero-books.net/books/marx-returns
Music in this Video
VAPORWAVE AMBIENT / AESTHETIC DREAM
https://youtu.be/KithfSlMnIc
Blue Danube 8bit Version
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Also Sprach Zarathustra 8-bit
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Back to the Future Theme (8-Bit NES Remix)
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John Moran / Manson Opera -5) Subject: Squeaky Fromme
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In this youtube video we’re going to take a look at Nina Power’s 2009 feminist Tract “One Dimensional Woman” and find out how the book is holding up seven years later. Was Power right when she suggested that feminists should be perhaps a bit less concerned about representation and more concerned about structural problems in this digital spectacle that we take to be the modern world?
http://www.zero-books.net/books/one-dimensional-woman
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A video about the Mark Fisher Bed Meme and its context in our current historical period. It also talks about the doomer meme, depression caused by capitalism and solidarity.
Written and produced by Mike Watson. Narrated by Adam Ray Adkins, Music by Alex M: insta -- @alejandro_baltazar_moreno
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Did the 80s ever happen or is vaporwave the ghost of a past that never was? Are we doomed to mash up, distort and repeat, or has the crystallized moment called Neoliberalism shattered?
This video reexamines Grafton Tanner's theories on Vaporwave, reassesses Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism, and considers the possibility that history has reasserted itself in the worst of ways.
http://www.zero-books.net/books/babbling-corpse
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This is part one of a two part series of videos that will return to some of the ideas that were in our recent video on postmodernism, only this time we’ll step back from the 70s and into the 19th and the first half of the 20th century to do so. These videos will ask the philosophical questions “what is it to be human” or “what is it to be a self or a subject” only instead of arguing with Derrida while referring to Bojack Horseman and The Good Place, we’ll take on Max Stirner and Martin Heidegger while referencing Nicholas Ray’s 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause and video games.
Watch Part Two:
Video Games and Heidegger
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Book Featured in this Video
All Things Are Nothing to Me by Jacob Blumenfeld
https://www.amazon.com/All-Things-are-Nothing-Philosophy/dp/1780996632
This video features clips from The Passion Play: Life and Death of Christ (1903)
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Music Featured
Giant Steps NES 8bit
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Macintosh Plus 420 on Guitar by The Guests
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Varelator - Alpha (Vangelis Cover) Theme COSMOS 80
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Depeche Mode - Johnny Cash - Personal Jesus - piano cover
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Loser [8bit] tribute to Beck
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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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SUGGESTED READING
Genesis 2:8 - 3:24
Thomas More, Utopia
CLR James, The Black Jacobins
Kristin Ross, Communal Luxury
Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project
Fredriech Engels, Socialism, Utopian and Scientific
William Morris, News from Nowhere
Gerald Winstanley, A Declaration From the Poor Oppressed People of England
Ernst Bloch, The Spirit of Utopia
Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
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Acid Horizon
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The Horror Vanguard
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Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard
Buddies Without Organs
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Website: https://buddieswithout.org/
Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/
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A reading from Maurizio Ferraris' book "Positive Realism."
"Ferraris showed great courage in the brutally anti-realist continental philosophy of the early 1990s. He argues rigorously, and is also an erudite and cultured person with an unusually good sense of humor." - Graham Harman
http://www.zero-books.net/books/positive-realism
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We interview Jason Barker about his book Marx Returns.
http://www.zero-books.net/books/marx-returns
Footage from Marx Reloaded (2011) Medea Film / Films Noirs
http://icarusfilms.com/if-mrx
Music Track is Synthcronicity by Lee Rosevere
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Coming to Verso Books February 2024: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741197/the-double-shift-by-jason-read/
ABOUT THE DOUBLE SHIFT
“Why do people fight for their exploitation as if it was liberation?” How Marx and Spinoza can explain our attachment to work, and what we can do about it
In a world of declining wages, working conditions, and instability, the response for many has been to work harder, increasing hours and finding various ways to hustle in a gig economy. What drives our attachment to work? To paraphrase a question from Spinoza, “Why do people fight for their exploitation as if it was liberation?”
The Double Shift turns towards the intersection of Marx and Spinoza in order to examine the nature of our affective, ideological, and strategic attachment to work. Through an examination of contemporary capitalism and popular culture it argues that the current moment can be defined as one of “negative solidarity.”
The hardship and difficulty of work is seen not as the basis for alienation and calls for its transformation but rather an identification with the difficulties and hardships of work. This distortion of the work ethic leads to a celebration of capitalists as job creators and suspicion towards anyone who is not seen as a “real worker.”
The book is grounded in philosophy, specifically Marx and Spinoza, and is in dialogue with Plato, Smith, Hegel, and Arendt, but, at the same time, in examining contemporary ideologies and ideas about work it discusses motivational meetings at Apple Stores, the culture of Silicon Valley, and films and television from Office Space to Better Call Saul.
The Double Shift argues for a transformation of our collective imagination and attachment to work.
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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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