This video will examine some critiques of reason or rationalism, take a look at how a commitment to logic and objectivity turns into its opposite, and attempt to answer the question, “Why did Andrew Yang supporters get down on their knees?”
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.
Part Two of Ben Burgis’ response to the Distributist on whether “Capitalism” is a magic word includes a smack down. The Distributist is another soft-reactionary willing to publicly demonstrate how little he knows about Marx’s writings and Burgis takes him to task for his ignorance.
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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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A lot of critical theory approaches the media as a form of propaganda or brainwashing. In this first episode of WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY author MK Hobson (Native Star-https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003F3PKFY) and Zero Books publisher and author Douglas Lain (Bash Bash Revolution-https://www.amazon.com/Bash-Revolution-Douglas-Lain-ebook/dp/B07H472CHB) question this view as they explore and explain the topic “Ideology and Media.”
WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY is a new monthly video series modeled on educational television programs like 3...2...1 Contact and Square One Television, only rather than explaining the natural sciences, WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY aims to explore Critical Theory of the Marxist variety.
In this episode the Zero Books titles Neglected or Misunderstood: Introducing Theodor Adorno, Give Them an Argument, and the Coming Revolution are cited.
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Neglected or Misunderstood: Introducing Theodor Adorno by Stuart Walton
https://www.amazon.com/Neglected-Misunderstood-Introducing-Theodor-Adorno/dp/1785353829
The Coming Revolution by Ben Reynolds
https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Revolution-Capitalism-21st-Century/dp/1785357093
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This video explores how the philosophy of science is struggling with deep epistemic difficulties and how “postmodernism” in the philosophy of science was a reaction against Marxist ideas. Popper’s falsification theory, the ideas of Imre Lakatos, and the need to understand Marxist ideas and the left generally in terms of a long term struggle to realize the values of the Enlightenment are all covered.
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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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This video considers the late Mark Fisher's admiration of the early music of Michael Jackson and Fisher's acceptance of Greil Marcus's characterization of Michael Jackson' s meteoric rise in the 80s as "Jacksonism," an ideological moment of conformity.
The ideas in this video originate in Fisher's collecton "The Resistable Demise of Michael Jackson."
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Symptomatic Redness is a show about political economics and historical analysis. Hosted by C. Derick Varn and Amogh Sahu the show is sometimes a dialogue between the hosts and sometimes features interviews with activists and academics.
This month's Symptomatic Redness features a conversation about Marx and Marxism's relationship with religion. The podcast circles around the questions
Does Marxism have a coherent ethics?
Does Marxism have a theory of consciousness?
And to what extent is Marx or Marxism guilty of idealism?
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The Other Future Podcast is a series of programs recorded by Terry Tapp, author of the Zero Books title "A Serf's Journal." This week Mike Watson, the author of the upcoming Zero Books title "Can the Left Learn to Meme" joins him to discuss art, politics and the possibility of an another Future
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Discover inherent female privilege, the asymmetric secret, what men really want, and other practical dating tips from theorist Jean Baudrillard, master of simulation and stimulation, revealed by novelist Susanna Kleeman & Zero Books’ Douglas Lain & Danny Scott.
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Obama said in 2013 we were going to set our sights on the far east with a "Pivot to China". A growing economic superpower.
A new Cold War is underway with the People's Republic of China and the west. China has come a long way from the agrarian 3rd World Country it once was. It's one of the largest economies in the world taking over 700,000,000 of its citizens out of poverty.
None of this has stopped the Cold War propaganda from emanating in the west. With stories of an apparent genocide against the ethnic minority Uyghur community it's starting to feel like 1984 all over again.
Is China the new menace? A true threat to U.S. hegemony?
Is the Belt and Road just colonization with a different face?
Is the U.S. propaganda machine weaponizing the #MeToo movement against China with talk of mass rapes? What were the protests in Hong Kong really all about?
We'll ask these questions and yours with our guest professor Ken Hammond.
A little about Professor Hammond:
Kenneth J. Hammond is Professor of History at New Mexico State University. Hammond was a student and Students for a Democratic Society leader at Kent State University from 1967 to 1970. He later (1985) completed his degree in Political Science, then studied Modern Chinese language at the Beijing Foreign Languages Normal School in Beijing. Hammond received an M.A. in Regional Studies -East Asia(1989), and a Ph.D in History and East Asian Languages (1994) from Harvard University. In 2007, Hammond was appointed director of the Confucius Institute, a cultural initiative funded in part by Hanban on the NMSU campus that is dedicated to studying and publicizing China and Chinese culture. He is the editor of the journal Ming Studies.
While at Kent State, Hammond authored a study of local politics entitled Who Rules Kent? and was active in the political events that culminated in the May 4, 1970 shootings at the university. He was indicted as one of the
TIRpodcast's Pivot to China w_ Professor Ken Ha..." and was lead plaintiff in the federal lawsuit Hammond v. Brown which resulted in the suppression of the Special Grand Jury report on the Kent State shootings. All charges against the Kent 25 were dropped in December 1971. In 1976 he took part in the "Move the Gym" demonstrations at Kent, on the site of the 1970 shootings.
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Ben Burgis talks about his mini-debate with Gavin McInness about libertarianism and the pandemic and then responds to Matthew Yglesias' bizarre misinterpretation of his Jacobin article "The Left Can’t Just Dismiss the Anti-Lockdown Protests." Burgis believes the left needs to offer better solutions to the economic grievances the lockdown protesters are talking about instead of just starting and ending our response by making fun of them.
Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left by Ben Burgis
https://redemmas.org/titles/32417-give-them-an-argument--logic-for-the-left
https://www.waterstones.com/book/give-them-an-argument/ben-burgis//9781789042108
Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson
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"The Left Can’t Just Dismiss the Anti-Lockdown Protests" by Ben Burgis
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/4/coronavirus-pandemic-lockdown-protests-ubi
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