Leo Cookman's Time’s Lie analyses the history, the science and the philosophy behind the creation of linear stories, or ‘Narrativisation’ as this book dubs it. In this video he explores the linear stories we've told about pandemics. Douglas Lain provided the narration for Cookman's essay.
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.
Yes We Cannibal (YWC) is an experimental art and community space in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Recently, they hosted a conversation on objects, cryptocurrency, and ontology which featured Zer0 author Graham Harman and guests Vinay Gupta and Bruce Sterling. The conversation begins here: https://youtu.be/xMxCqYh9km0?t=317
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The Philosopher’s Tarot from Repeater Books (mentioned in the episode): https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717040/the-philosophers-tarot-by-sereptie/9781914420917?ref=PRHB7BD76FBDB&aid=14813&linkid=PRHB7BD76FBDB
Check out the projects of some of the new contributors to Zer0 Books:
Acid Horizon
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The Horror Vanguard
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Buddies Without Organs
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Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/
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Vakhtang Gomelauri is a Clinical Social Worker and Therapist with a Lacanian bent living in New York City. He is a returning guest and was on the opposite side of Zero Books panel/debate at this year’s Left Forum. In this episode we almost discuss Avital Ronnell, postmodernism, and Lacan.
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Music and clips featured
Slavoj Zizek with Avital Ronell at NYU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1zJFu04C6U
Pick Up the Pieces Cover by Marty Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha-wjIRbQFw
John de Ruiter giving Spiritual Advice
Avital Ronell discussing immaturity set to the tune from XTC’s Dear God
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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=4VwoBsNX9Y8
In the fourth in this series Mike Watson talks to Matt McManus asking if Adorno's criticism of Existentialism in the 'Jargon of Authenticity' was fair.
Matt McManus is a Professor of Law and Society at The University of Calgary.
He is also the author of... The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism (Palgrave), AND co author of What Is Post-Modern Conservatism?, Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson, both from Zero Books AND A Critical Legal Examination of Liberalism and Liberal Rights (Palgrave 2020)
You can order Mike Watson's The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism -- https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/memeing-mark-fisher
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNevXOsdMCc
John Michael Colón is a member of the DSA, a writer for Current Affairs, In These Times, and the LARB, and the guest on this episode of Symptomatic Redness.
Symptomatic Redness is a show on political economy and historical analysis hosted by C. Derick Varn and Amogh Sahu.
Varn and Sahu either talk to each other or interview guests about economics and politics from a historical materialist perspective. The aim is to look at alternate modes of economic and political organization as well as offering commentary on the current moment.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQn3Qx6okzU
This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that we are haunted by futures that failed to happen. Fisher searches for the traces of these lost futures in the work of David Peace, John Le Carré, Christopher Nolan, Joy Division, Burial and many others.
http://www.zero-books.net/books/ghosts-my-life
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nrqMdu905c
This video examines the fantasies and dreams of a prominent 20th-century technocrat from a Marxist perspective and features excerpts from Fabian Scheidler’s “The End of the Megamachine” and Alex Quicho’s upcoming book "Small Gods: Perspectives on the Drone."
Why do our machines always seem to turn against us.
Addendum: I know that the main character in the Matrix is named "Neo" and not "Neon." Not sure what happened with my brain when I got that wrong.
Relevant Books
The End of the Megamachine by Fabian Scheidler
https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/end-megamachine-brief-history-failing-civilization
Small Gods: Perspectives on the Drone by Alex Quicho
https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/small-gods
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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=p2E6SgykA9o
Prof. Klees draws on 45 years of work around the world as an economist and international educator to paint a detailed picture of conservative, liberal, and progressive views on a wide range of current social issues. He takes an in-depth look at his specializations: education, economics, poverty and inequality, international development, and capitalism. He examines major social problems like health care, the climate crisis, and war. Throughout the book, Prof. Klees tries to give a fair and careful depiction of how conservatives and liberals see these issues, whilst focusing on critiques by progressives, and on the alternatives they offer.
Relevant Books
The Conscience of a Progressive by Steven Klees
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-conscience-of-a-progressive-steven-klees/1137094342
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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=xtskvNGi9Cs
Josie Appleton is the author of the book Officious: the Rise of the Busybody State which came out from Zero Books in 2016 and in this episode of the podcast she discusses her controversial blog post entitled #Metoo: The criminalization of sexual passion.
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.
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. Also, a perfect Christmas gift for the leftist in your life might be Kill All Normies by Angela Nagle.
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This video is the third in a series about self-consciousness. This time rather than exclusively focusing on Bill Murray or the history of Dada and Surrealism (although they’ll both come up again)we start off opposing Slavoj Zizek’s version of Hegelian Materialism against Alan Watts’ Western Buddhism.
We then take up an excerpt from Graham Harman’s book “Weird Realism,” and only THEN return to Bill Murray and Avant-Garde art as both appear in the unreleased cult film “Nothing Lasts Forever.”
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Book Cited
Weird Realism by Graham Harman
https://www.amazon.com/Weird-Realism-Philosophy-Graham-Harman/dp/1780992521
Movie Clips Included
Truman Show
Nothing Lasts Forever
Stan Brakhage “Glaze of Cathexis and “I Dreaming”
Music Included
Ping Island performed by Dede Alder
https://youtu.be/ZnNUcm6kAyM
Macintosh Plus 420 on Guitar by The Guests
https://theguests000.bandcamp.com/
Love Me Tender (8 Bit Remix Cover) [Tribute to Elvis Presley] - Breath 8 Bit
https://youtu.be/swMNDQeqUNc
Heaven or Las Vegas - Cocteau Twins - César Amor
https://youtu.be/ZGrUTdzkfiA
Philip Glass Improvisation by Torley
https://youtu.be/nNiOqa1nWgI
Carmina Burana 8bit
https://youtu.be/P2hH2AgyI5M
Techno Russian Anthem
https://youtu.be/1PXCM3e-SMk
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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=m9xwuxJWJ1U