On Cancelling, Racefail and the Overproduction of Elites
Ben Burgis and Douglas Lain start out descussing his upcoming book "Cancelling Comedians While the World Burns" but the conversation turns to memories of their respective writing careers, the cancel culture of the science fiction genre world during the zero years, and the question of the overproduction of elites.
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The backlash to Joe Rogan's endorsement of Bernie Sander and the arguments made in support of demands for Bernie Sanders to apologize, are unsound. This video is a continuation of the Logic for Leftist series only instead of Ben Burgis, the host is Douglas Lain.
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Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left 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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This video offers commentary on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide.
Andrew Wallis is a freelance journalist, academic, and author, and a leading expert in the African Great Lakes Region, especially Rwanda. His previous book, "Silent Accomplice: The role of France in the Rwandan genocide' was praised as a 'damning new book' by the New York Review of Books, and his new book “Stepp’d in Blood” is coming out Zero Books.
Stepp’d in Blood by Andrew Wallis
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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
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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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The English countryside is often seen as timeless, remote and shielded from the harshest problems of modern life. Yet, as Return of a Native reveals, it is to rural England that we must look for the roots of our current crises.
Beginning and ending at a crossroads in north west Hampshire, with feet planted firmly on the soil, Vron Ware brings her experience of writing about racism, colonial history, war and feminism to show us how to look at the land in a new light. With one eye on the parish and another on the distant horizon, she leaves no stone unturned in this quest to understand how we humans arrived at this place.
From Bronze Age ruins to the fall-out from Brexit, Return of a Native is an ecological reckoning with England’s future as well as its deep history.
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This video covers the books "The Off Modern" by Ron Roberts, "Fear of Music" by David Stubbs, and Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher. The suggestion raised is that we might expect that attempts to escape from established conventions always means risking madness and noise.
The Off Modern
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Fear of Music
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Capitalist Realism
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This is a slightly corrected rerun of a video about how Jordan Peterson and Slavoj Žižek have finally set a date and time to debate. The event is entitled “Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism” and will take place in Toronto’s Sony Center. This video aims to serve as a conceptual guide to the debate. How do Peterson and Žižek agree and disagree about happiness, capitalism, Marxism, and Christianity?
This video will feature an excerpt from Ron Roberts book “Psychology and Capitalism” as we explore the differences between these two intellectuals.
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Jordan Peterson Debates Slavoj Zizek (by Doug Robertson)
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C Derick Varn and Douglas Lain continue their exploration of the history of socialism by discussing Karl Kautsky. From the Encyclopedia Britannica:
Marxist theorist and a leader of the German Social Democratic Party. After the death of Friedrich Engels in 1895, Kautsky inherited the role of the intellectual and political conscience of German Marxism.
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This is the first in a new series of videos on the topic of American Populism and the influence of populism on the left. In this video we take excerpts from Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism and JA Smith’s Other People’s politics.
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Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
https://www.amazon.com/Capitalist-Realism-There-No-Alternative/dp/1846943175
Other People’s Politics by JA Smith
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