Zero Books Special: Historical vs Dialectical Materialism
Professor Sean Sayers has written extensively on Hegelian and Marxist philosophy from a Hegelian Marxist perspective. His books include Marx and Alienation: Essays on Hegelian Themes (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), Marxism and Human Nature (Routledge, 1998), and Hegel, Marx and Dialectic: A Debate (with Richard Norman, Harvester, 1980). In this live stream, Douglas Lain and Sean Sayers will discuss Sayer's critique of GA Cohen and the importance of Hegel in Marx's theoretical work.
This video is about the impossibility of nihilism, the phony honesty of Michel Houellebecq, and how to find the meaning of life. Jumping off from Ben Jeffrey's book Anti-Matter we poke holes in the concept of ‘Depressive Realism’ and then fill those holes in again.
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SOTTOTITOLI DISPONIBILI IN ITALIANO
From the Renaissance to the fascist era to the student and worker uprisings of the '60s and '70s, the Italian peninsula has long been a volatile theater of political conflict. In this video, Conrad Hamilton and Ludovica Mancini team up to answer the question: what can the Italian radical tradition both old (communist) and older (republican) teach the Anglophone left today?
Correction: While in this video it's stated that Antonio Negri fled to France "before he could be put in prison," for charges related to his association with the Brigate Rosse, this is incorrect. Negri fled to France in 1983 before he could be charged on account of his association with BR. However, he had already spent over four years in prison awaiting trial—from 1979 to 1983—prior to his flight. Later, he returned to Italy, serving out his sentence (pronounced in absentia during his exile) from 1997-2003 before being released on parole.
Written, starred in and English subtitles by Conrad Hamilton
Directed, edited and Italian subtitles by Ludovica Mancini
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A reading from "Daniel Defoe and the Bank of England." From Zero Books, Valerie Hamilton and Martin Parker tell the story of how the Bank of England came into being. And how the history of banking is entangled with that of the modern novel, in particular the fortunes of one Moll Flanders.
Daniel Defoe and the Bank of England can be found at the Zero Books website. http://www.zero-books.net/books/daniel-defoe-bank-england
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Zer0 Books is hosting a monthly reading group on its Patreon account. The course follows the syllabus of Mark Fisher's final lecture series entitled 'Post Capitalist Desire'. A tentative syllabus will be posted on our Patreon channel later this week. We hope to see you there!
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Acid Horizon
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Also on this episode is our friend Noah!
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The Horror Vanguard
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Buddies Without Organs
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Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/
Support Daniel Tutt's work by visiting the Torsion Groups
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This video explores how cultural politics of both the neoliberal and neo-traditional sorts are symptoms of an impasse in the struggle for socialism. We examine Nathan Robinson's critique of Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti from the program Rising and his critique of Angela Nagle's essay on immigration, in order to offer a counter-critique that juxtaposes our current political problems against the long-standing crisis in Marxism.
Relevant Books
Kill All Normies by Angela Nagle
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/kill-all-normies-angela-nagle/1126407450
Relevant Reading
The Left Case against Open Borders by Angela Nagle
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/11/the-left-case-against-open-borders/
Responding To “The Left Case Against Open Borders” by Nathan Robinson
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/11/responding-to-the-left-case-against-open-borders
Isn’t “Right-Wing Populism” Just Fascism? by Nathan Robinson
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/06/isnt-right-wing-populism-just-fascism
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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
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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.
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Stephen Janicki is an inventor living in Indiana and a Trump supporter. His most recent invention is called the Driigunproject project. The Facebook page for the Driigunproject describes this invention as a "revolution in art, gaming and education." He holds a Bachelor's of Science in Management/Marketing with a minor in Philosophy. In this video, Douglas Lain and Stephen Janicki discuss the election results, the possibility of voter fraud, the evidence of corruption around Biden and Trump, and whether we can trust our political institutions to render judgment.
According to Stephen the Driigunproject is a STEAM PBL program, by way of a RPG game, with the inherent incentive therein, where at it's very base the Art side is given voice and coverage through the creation of the Art of the miniatures for the game, and STEM side is covered through the math and coding necessarily required for character generation and game operations.
https://www.facebook.com/Driigunproject-1492826754285979/
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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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Why we need a materialist spirituality for the secular left, and how to build one.
The left commonly rejects religion and spirituality as counter-revolutionary forces, citing Marx’s famous dictum that “religion is the opium of the people.” Yet forms of spirituality have motivated struggles throughout history, ranging from medieval peasant uprisings and colonial slave revolts, to South American liberation theology and the US civil rights movement. And in a world where religion is growing, and political movements are ridden with conflict, burnout, and failure, what can the left learn from religion?
Red Enlightenment argues not only for a deepened understanding of religious matters, but calls for the secular left to develop its own spiritual perspectives. It proposes a materialist spirituality built from socialist and scientific sources, finding points of contact with the global history of philosophy and religion.
From cybernetics to liberation theology, from ancient Indian and Chinese philosophy to Marxist dialectical materialism, from traditional religious practices to contemporary art, music, and film, Red Enlightenment sets out a plausible secular spirituality, a new socialist praxis, and a utopian vision.
Buy the book here: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/red-enlightenment/
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The Philosopher’s Tarot from Repeater Books: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/
The Horror Vanguard
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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/
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