This video features an interview with Fabian Scheidler on the ideas in his upcoming book "The End of the Megamachine." The entirety of this interview is available as an audio "Zero Squared" podcast.
The book provides a uniquely comprehensive picture of the roots of the destructive forces that are threatening the future of humankind today. Spanning 5000 years of history, the book shows how the three tyrannies of militarized states, capital accumulation and ideological power have been steering both ecosystems and societies to the brink of collapse. With the growing instability of the Megamachine in the 21st century, new dangers open up as well as new possibilities for systemic change, to which everyone can contribute.
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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Is the Great RESET a World Economic Forum plan to destroy the economy in order to create the kind of conditions wherein the banks and politicians can easily establish the kind of total control they need in order to turn ALL the frogs Gay, or is it just another branding excercise meant to give the impression that the elites have a plan as everything falls apart?
In this video we take an excerpt from Michael Brooks book "Against the Web" as we continue exploring the ideas of Christopher Lasch. Specifically we explore how the dominance of the economic ideas of Paul Sweezy led even the best left critics of the left to embrace "progressive" reforms rather than develop socialism.
Relevant Books
Against the Web by Michael Brooks
https://redemmas.org/titles/34612-against-the-web---a-cosmopolitan-answer-to-the-new-right--back-in-stock--
The Agony of the American Left by Christopher Lasch
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/agony-of-the-american-left-christopher-lasch/1005336515
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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.
Zero Books aims to work against this trend.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoQ7BYvb0_0
This video is the second in our new Patreon series of videos on the history and idea of Communism. Using Emile B. Ader’s 1970 book “Communism: Classic and Contemporary” as a guide, this series will explore the history and ideas around Communism with the aim of discovering if there is anything in the Communist Idea worth salvaging. The rest of this series will be made available to our Patrons first. In order to keep up with this series support us on Patreon.
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Communism: Classical and Contemporary by Emile B. Ader
https://www.amazon.com/Communism-Cont...
Video and Music Clips from Storyblocks and the Prelinger Archives
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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=-JgPR2ySCcI
This video will examine some critiques of reason or rationalism, take a look at how a commitment to logic and objectivity turns into its opposite, and attempt to answer the question, “Why did Andrew Yang supporters get down on their knees?”
Relevant book title:
Zizek in the Clinic by Eliot Rosenstock
https://www.amazon.com/Zizek-Clinic-Revolutionary-Proposal-Psychotherapy/dp/1785359258
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zizek-Clinic-Revolutionary-Proposal-Psychotherapy/dp/1785359258
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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=MuQMonx9fWw
Watch Part I here: https://youtu.be/TpGXJ1R4g8g
Watch Part II here: https://youtu.be/6_logXWLs08
Watch Part III here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns-_cc0enug
What was the Lacanian left and what is its future? A long-distance conversation held over Whatsapp audio messages while driving, out walking or cooking dinner over the course of several months between Daniel Tutt and Gabriel Tupinambá. Tupinambá is the author of The Desire of Psychoanalysis: Exercises in Lacanian Theory and Tutt is the author of Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family. Stay tuned for new installments.
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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
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/my/podcast...
Website: https://buddieswithout.org/
Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwRewuxaJv4
Mike Watson looks at the new season of Stranger Things through the lens of Theodor Adorno. Watson’s book is due out on the 29th of November this year from Zero Books.
Book featured:
Can the Left Learn to Meme by Mike Watson
Mike Watson: Script, Voiceover. twitter: @_leftaesthetics
Ian Watson: Artistic Direction
Thanks to Adam Ray Adkins for the Adorno Montage. insta: @art.o.dirt
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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=YQP1fcxlITQ
Adrian Johnston is one of the most creative and interesting philosophers working today. He is known for bridging the "continental-analytic" divide in philosophy and for his ground-breaking work on Slavoj Žižek's philosophy. In this interview, Daniel Tutt and Adrian Johnston discuss the state of philosophy today, what Adrian means by "transcendental materialism", how to understand the new Hegel renaissance in contemporary philosophy and Adrian's philosophical differences with Zizek.
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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
Merch: crit-drip.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/my/podcast/buddies-without-organs/id1543289939
Website: https://buddieswithout.org/
Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAAkGDJCu4U
In this video, Harvey J. Kaye explains how little difference there is between socialism and social democracy and argues that democracy and rights are vitally important in the struggle for socialism. Harvey J Kaye’s book Take Hold of Our History: Make America Radical again is coming soon from Zero Books
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Take Hold of Our History: Make America Radical Again by Harvey J. Kaye
Video and Music Clips from Storyblocks and the Prelinger Archive
Other Music Includes
Zero Squared Theme or “Untitled” by Nik Walton
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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=GcYoP3cHEhE
Chris Nineham is a British political activist and founder member of the Stop the War Coalition serving as National Officer and Deputy Chair of the Stop the War Coalition in the UK. He served under Jeremy Corbyn from 2011 to 2015. In this Livestream, he'll be discussing the meaning and consequences of Corbyn's loss in this week's general election.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzBwdsj3VvE
This video considers the OK Boomer meme through excerpts from Mark Fisher's "Ghosts of My Life" and Harvey J Kaye's "Take Hold of Our History: Make America Radical Again." It includes an interview with an actual boomer as well as Gen X nostalgia for the 90s.
Relevant Books
Take Hold of Our History:Make America Radical Again by Harvey Kaye
https://www.amazon.com/Take-Hold-Our-History-America/dp/1789043557
Ghosts of My Life by Mark Fisher
https://www.amazon.com/Ghosts-My-Life-Depression-Hauntology/dp/1780992262
Music from Jane Hope
https://janehope.bandcamp.com/album/japanese-tracks
And Macintosh Plus’s 420 as covered by the Guests
Video clips come from Storyblocks and the Prelinger Archive
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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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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fusviIy7m4o