This video is a response to Jordan Peterson who recently replied to an open letter written by Brent Cooper promoting the upcoming conference “Responding to Peterson in lieu of a debate” with a rather pissy dismissal. Here’s a link to the tweet from Peterson that includes his letter (https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1044572865419497472) and here is a link to information about the confernce: https://www.facebook.com/events/189638748372019/
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.
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.
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Relevant Book
The End of the Megamachine by Fabian Scheidler
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-end-of-the-megamachine-fabian-scheidler/1137139831
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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=9_2hScMJj1I
From Gil's book: Three early modern philosophers - Spinoza, Leibniz and Hume - understood that minds necessarily involve ideas and patterns of thinking that are not conscious. Morejon shows that in this way they sharply distinguish themselves from other major early modern thinkers whose conceptions of the mind tended to identify thinking with consciousness, such as Descartes, Malebranche and Locke. This conception of the thinking mind as conscious remains popular even today. By contrast, Leibniz, Spinoza and Hume argue instead that thought is not, as such, a matter of consciousness.
Morejon explores the significance of this insight for their conceptions of freedom and ethics. By systematically analyzing the major writings of these three thinkers and placing them in the context of the history of Western philosophy, he shows that together they provide us with a metaphysics of ideas that is uniquely helpful for thinking through important problems in contemporary political theory. In particular, it allows us to understand how it is possible for people to act against their own interests and in spite of their consciously knowing better.
Readers will gain a sophisticated understanding of what Leibniz, Spinoza and Hume thought about the metaphysics of ideas, the nature of the human mind and the limits of individual freedom.
Gil's work: https://gilmorejon.wordpress.com/writings/
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The Horror Vanguard
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Buddies Without Organs
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In this video we take a second look at the TV cult hit Mr. Robot in order to understand the rightward shift happening in American politics, even on the left. We look at four Zero Books titles-Malign Velocities, Neglected and Misunderstood: Introducing Theodor Adorno, Psychology and Capitalism, and Ghosts of My Life- for theoretical insights.
Ghosts of My Life by Mark Fisher
http://www.zero-books.net/books/ghosts-my-life
Malign Velocities by Benjamin Noys
http://www.zero-books.net/books/malign-velocities
Introducing Theodor Adorno by Stuart Walton
http://www.zero-books.net/books/neglected-misunderstood-introducing-theodor-adorno
Psychology and Capitalism by Ron Roberts
http://www.zero-books.net/books/psychology-capitalism
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJdYiFFHzJs
Neal Trotter is a philosophy hobbyist and enthusiast interested in critically thinking with others. He reads philosophy books (primarily classics) and discusses them on Youtube. In this video Neal discusses Kierkegaard, despair, and the power of philosophy.
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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=1_XfV2CgcpQ
Ben Burgis explains what ad hominem arguments REALLY are, explores Kant’s categorical imperative, and argues that YOU MUST BE A SOCIALIST. One must embrace the revolution or risk treating people as if they’re merely vending machines.
Zero Books Logo Animations and other animations donated by Brian Cole
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Book featured:
Give Them An Argument by Ben Burgis
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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=IKKzeeMk1_E
Derick Varn and Douglas Lain discuss the failings of a sect of Trotskyism known as "Political Marxism" after discussing just what Chris Cutrone might have meant when he asked Doug to join his effort to create a "Dictatorship of the Proletariat." Can Marx's ideas become politically relevant today? What are the impediments to socialism today?
Relevant Essays:
The ‘Dictatorship of the Proletariat’ in Marx and Engels by Hal Draper
https://www.marxists.org/subject/marxmyths/hal-draper/article2.htm
Is There Anything to Defend in Political Marxism by Neil Davidson
https://isreview.org/issue/91/there-anything-defend-political-marxism
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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.
Zero Books aims to work against this trend.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ4D655EdB4
This youtube video from Zero Books examines Eugene Thacker's book "In the Dust of This Planet," Graham Harman's "Towards a Speculative Realism," and David Lynch's classic television series "Twin Peaks."
In the Dust of This Planet
http://www.zero-books.net/books/in-the-dust-of-this-planet
Towards a Speculative Realism
http://www.zero-books.net/books/towards-speculative-realism-essays-and-lectures
Zero Books
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXn9wOKL_vw
C Derick Varn and Douglas Lain continue their exploration of the history of socialism by discussing Karl Kautsky. From the Encyclopedia Britannica:
Marxist theorist and a leader of the German Social Democratic Party. After the death of Friedrich Engels in 1895, Kautsky inherited the role of the intellectual and political conscience of German Marxism.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKKh1RWacdQ
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The utopian project lies in ruins, but perhaps in our present moment, there are elements from the history of thought that can provide fresh resources for utopianism. In this groundbreaking introduction, Jon Greenaway explores the work of German philosopher Ernst Bloch, whose complex and challenging philosophy is a primer for a philosophical renewal of the struggle for a better world.
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The Horror Vanguard
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Buddies Without Organs
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/buddies-without-organs/id1543289939
Website: https://buddieswithout.org/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7XWLGvea1Q