Millennials and the Moments that Made Us - Book Talk
Millennials and the Moments That Made Us is a cultural history of the United States, as seen through the eyes of the largest, most diverse, and most disprivileged generation in American history. The book is a relatable pop culture history that critiques the capitalist status quo our generation inherited - a critical tour of the music, movies, books, TV shows, and technology that have defined us and our times.
Shaun Scott is a Seattle-based writer, historian, and filmmaker. His work has appeared in Jacobin Magazine, Sports Illustrated, and the film journal Senses of Cinema.
Millennials and the Moments That Made Us -by Shaun Scott
Chris Nineham, author of "The British State: A Warning" returns to discuss UK politics during the Brexit crisis. This time he takes some "Marxist Questions" about the need for socialists to reembrace a revolutionary/transformative vision.
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The British State: A Warning by Chris Nineham
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This month on Gaming Materialists we are joined by Discourse from Discourse Miniatures to discuss the world’s biggest TableTop Miniature Company, Games Workshop. In recent years, TableTop miniature wargames have exploded in popularity, a tendency that was only accelerated by the COVID crisis. However, Games Workshop has also come under heavy criticism from within the gaming community for its exploitative business practices. What kinds of exploitive tactics does Games Workshop use? How does this affect the community? And in what ways does the quest for profit shaped the development of the games?
Discourse Miniatures
Discourse is a YouTube Content creator from the UK. Her YouTube Channel, Discourse Miniatures, focuses on consumer issues relating to the TableTop Games Industry and has been a frequent critique of some of the predatory business practices of Games Workshop as well as other plays in the market.
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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, but we'll follow his example and use pop cultural reference 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.
Related Books
Ideology and the Virtual City: Videogames, Power Fantasies And Neoliberalism by Jon Bailes
https://www.amazon.com/Ideology-Virtual-City-Videogames-Neoliberalism/dp/1789041643
The Sublime Object of Ideology by Slavoj Žižek
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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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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
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We celebrate the launch of We Hear Only Ourselves. Utopia, Memory, and Resistance by Bill Cashmore and Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape by Acid Horizon.
We Hear Only Ourselves is a study of utopia and its contradictions. If a future beyond capitalism cannot be imagined, what is the place of utopia today? The answer, Cashmore argues, lies beyond either idle speculation or merely hopeful optimism. We Hear Only Ourselves seeks a concept of utopia which is strengthened, not undermined, by its contradictions. From the dialectics of the Frankfurt School to the energetics of resistance in the writings of the Black Panthers, this book draws on a wide range of thought to offer a new concept of utopia, one adequate for our present moment.
Anti-Oculus is a work of conceptual espionage: an assemblage of polemical tracts complete with a gallery of graphic illustrations inspired by postmodern and pulp classics from Anti-Oedipus to Ways of Seeing.
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An Imaginoscope for Organizers offers practical exercises to use both individual and collective imagination to activate and mobilize creative organizing impulses. It proposes intellectual, symbolic and poetic food for thought and practice. Each chapter is a step on the quest for creative ideas and practices and introduces a language that can be used to invent and communicate your own.
Monika Kostera is titular professor in economics and in the humanities and works as Professor Ordinaria at The Jagiellonian University in Poland and she also teaches at Södertörn University in Sweden. She also works at Durham University in the UK, and she writes poetry. Monika's research interests include organizational imagination and the dis-alienation of work. She lives in Krakow, Poland.
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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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In this new series, Mike Watson talks to Martin Jay, Historian of philosophy and author of several books on the Frankfurt School including the Dialectical Imagination and the recent essay collection Splinters in your Eye.
Martin Jay is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Books and Essays Discussed:
Martin Jay, Splinters in You Eye -- https://www.versobooks.com/books/3183-splinters-in-your-eye
Martin Jay, Trump, Scorsese and the Frankfurt School's theory of the Racket Society -- https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/trump-scorsese-and-the-frankfurt-schools-theory-of-racket-society/
Mike Watson, The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitaliat Realism -- https://www.waterstones.com/book/memeing-of-mark-fisher-the/mike-watson//9781789049336
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Ben Burgis evaluates the framing of the Zizek vs. Peterson debate and concludes that the way the debate is being framed includes a category mistake and aims at the wrong political goal. The aim of socialism to create the conditions necessary for individual and collective freedom and not at happiness.
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Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left
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