Douglas Lain and Derick Varn discuss the early days of the Frankfurt School, the relationship between Critical Theory and Marxism, and discuss just how much credit or blame thinkers like Horkheimer and Adorno really deserve. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nFVU7JbT-g

Slavoj Žižek is perhaps the world’s most famous philosopher. However, the arguments of the “Elvis of Critical Theory” are sometimes difficult to fully grasp. We'll follow his example and use pop-cultural references in an attempt to make the ideas more accessible. This video series will take on the ideas in Žižek’s first book: The Sublime Object of Ideology in an effort to explicate and evaluate them. Find out if Žižek’s is a philosophy without milk or without cream and ENJOY eating from the trashcan. Relevant Video Game: Cookie Clicker https://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/ Related Books The Writing on the Wall by Anselm Jappe https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Wall-Decomposition-Capitalism-Critics/dp/1785355813.. The Sublime Object of Ideology by Slavoj Žižek https://www.amazon.com/Sublime-Object... Zero Squared Theme or “Untitled” by Nik Walton Zero Books Logo Animations and other animations donated by Brian Cole https://www.instagram.com/robotbloodco/ Video and Music Clips from Storyblocks and the Prelinger Archive 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. Zer0 Books wants to work against this trend. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i4TZdr0Dlc