Slavoj Zizek, Jordan Peterson and the Toilet Paper Candidate
Why is there a shortage of toilet paper and what can we last year's debate between Jordan Peterson and Slavoj Zizek tell us about the ideology that directs public reaction in a time of crisis? This video takes excerpts from Zizek's introduction to our upcoming book "Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson" in order to clarify both the current health crisis and the success of the Biden campaign.
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.
A video by ZerO Books author Mike Watson promoting 'videos by the many', a hashtag campaign from Momentum
in support of Labour in the 2019 UK General Election.
Mike Watson is author of Can the Left Learn to Meme?, out with ZerO Books November 29th.
Video produced by Mike Watson with Mark Rackstraw.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-bTuEGOKMk
C. Derick Varn discusses Colin Drumm's views on the historical limitations of both the Marxist and "Modern Money Theory" framework in the context of early modern English history of money and coinage. Colin Drumm is the author of the blog Traill of the Pyx and is a PhD candidate in the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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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=j_hl4VGvqPc
This is the livestream for our Capital Volume 1 discussion group. This week we'll be tackling Chapter 2 on exchange.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hqxEi0Ypa4
This video will deliver another critique of what is calling itself the post-left, or if that’s too broad a category, then it is a critique of Michael Lind and his idea that a Managerial Elite is dominating society.
But, before we get to that the video spends a lot of time explaining how the history of secularization led to Marx’s critique of political economy, and why the notion of social class or caste must be considered separately from the idea of class as it relates to capitalist production.
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Canceling Comedians While The World Burns by Ben Burgis
https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/canceling-comedians-while-world-burns
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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=ra1a2L3P4e4
Grafton Tanner, author of the Circle of the Snake and Babbling Corpse, explains the ideology of the Netflix documentary "The Social Dilemma" and how a kind of pseudo-critique has arisen to explain and, in a round about way, justify the practices of social media giants like FB and Twitter.
Relevant Books
The Circle of the Snake by Grafton Tanner
https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/circle-snake
Babbling Corpse by Grafton Tanner
https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/babbling-corpse
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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=68pCCLT19Hc
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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 Logo Animations and other animations donated by Brian Cole
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ViNL-Jupiter
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Macintosh Plus 420
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Satie’s Gymnopédies
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Escape from Alcatraz End Credits
https://youtu.be/UihCyBxyJns
8bit BBC Sherlock Theme
https://youtu.be/vatgTIOr8so
National Anthem of USSR
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Russian_anthem_instrumental.oga
Clip from Jim Henson’s 1969 Television Program The Cube
https://youtu.be/l9emTbe5CZw
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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.
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Ben Burgis, author of Give Them An Argument:Logic for the Left, addresses the question “Is socialism against human nature?” in this video. Burgis believes that the left would do well to take on bad arguments and that the rules of logic favor the left.
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Human Nature 8bit version - by Michael Jackson
https://youtu.be/4dCQf7R5KmU
The Logical Song 8bit Version - by Supertramp
https://youtu.be/GNfROyU0Zbw
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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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Adam Proctor is the host of the "Dead Pundits Society" podcast. He took exception to the Critical Cuts video "Supporting Bernie Sanders Was a Mistake" and came on to the Zero Books podcast in order to give voice to his objections.
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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=DH4oV1FfvYQ
Harvey Kaye joins Douglas Lain for a conversation about what the social-democratic left can expect in the Post-Trump era.
Kaye is the author of Take Hold of Our History: Make America Radical again and The British Marxist Historians.
Mentioned in this Interview: The Day One Agenda: Now More Than Ever in the American Prospect
https://prospect.org/day-one-agenda/election-executive-actions-democratic-presidency/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzGilvnrJVA