This video is a response to Matt Taibbi’s recent essay “Marcuse-Anon: Cult of the Pseudo-Intellectual.” It is also an exploration of the difficulties that Marcuse was facing during his lifetime. Specifically, the video looks at some of the ways Marcuse’s writings and ideas fit within the context of the struggle for socialism in the 60s, and at the problems and realities, Marcuse was attempting to address. Essay "Matt Taibbi-One Dimensional Critic" on Substack https://douglaslain.substack.com/p/matt-taibbi-one-dimensional-critic This video features the music of Bitter Lake! https://www.facebook.com/bitterlakeband/ Relevant Books Capitalist Realism https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/capitalist-realism 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=nxKsX8Ihwls

This youtube video takes a look back at the financial crisis of 2007 and the various explanations for it on offer from the left by comparing the films They Live and The Matrix. It also looks at how, in his upcoming book Uncertain Futures, Edmund Berger explains the rise of the right and the turn towards nationalism by referring to the economic crisis. http://www.zero-books.net/books/uncertain-futures-assessment-conditions-present ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7y7DK_DsYg

Ben Burgis' picks apart the rhetorical arguments that attempt to justify Elizabeth Warren's political cowardice and her excuses for her poorly run campaign and waffling. He argues that Elizabeth Warren's failure in the primary campaign cannot be understood as a product of sexist attitudes or beliefs. He argues that Elizabeth Warren does owe us something. He argues that Warren has betrayed the movement for universal healthcare at a moment of global crisis. Relevant Books Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left by Ben Burgis https://www.amazon.com/Give-Them-Argument-Logic-Left/dp/1789042100 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Give-Them-Argument-Logic-Left/dp/1789042100 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=CqAEiEJW2nE

Buy the Book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/blue-light-of-the-screen-on-horror-ghosts-and-god/ Blue Light of the Screen is about what it means to be afraid — about immersion, superstition, delusion, and the things that keep us up at night. A creative-critical memoir of the author’s obsession with the horror genre, Blue Light of the Screen embeds its criticism of horror within a larger personal story of growing up in a devoutly Catholic family, overcoming suicidal depression, uncovering intergenerational trauma, and encountering real and imagined ghosts. As Cronin writes, she positions herself as a protagonist who is haunted by what she watches and reads, like an antiquarian in an M.R. James ghost story whose sense of reality unravels through her study of arcane texts and cursed archives. In this way, Blue Light of the Screen tells the story of the author’s conversion from skepticism to faith in the supernatural. Part memoir, part ghost story, and part critical theory, Blue Light of the Screen is not just a book about horror, but a work of horror itself. Support Zer0 Books and Repeater Media on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooks Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooks Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0books ----- Other links: 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 Philosopher’s Tarot from Repeater Books: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/ 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/gb/podcast/buddies-without-organs/id1543289939 Website: https://buddieswithout.org/ Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trPNDVJVXEs