Ben Burgis recently released the cover of his upcoming book "Cancelling Comedians While the World Burns: A Critique of the Contemporary Left" on twitter and the response he received from his twitter comrades motivated him to respond with this love letter of a video. Enjoy!
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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Everything Gucci, Everything Louis. Lit AF it's ya boi BadmanMassive on the scene, OBEY that shit. Full Communism. Eazy fam.
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Music by @ToastedTomatoes
https://youtu.be/okm840YSj2c
Eastern Marsh Lands:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKlz0YZatELLoyxw-MABi-g
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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.
Zer0 Books wants to work against this trend.
#yanggang #yang2020 #securethebag
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnhjGGRZciE
Are there reactionaries in our midst, people with a right-wing agenda pretending to be leftist? Is "The Bellows," the podcast "What's Left?," Malcolm Kyeyune, part of some secret red/brown alliance? What about Red Scare, Chapo, or even Zero Books?
In this Pop the Left conversation Derick Varn and Douglas Lain evaluate two essays from the publication "The Bellows" before discussing just how to handle the possibility of right-wing infiltration of the left.
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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.
Zero Books aims to work against this trend.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOU44VKEiU4
This interview with Slavoj Zizek touches on topics covered in his book "Sex and the Failed Absolute" while offering some commentary and points of clarification. The interview was recorded on our new Twitch channel on Thanksgiving.
New Twitch Channel
https://www.twitch.tv/douglain
New Youtube Channel: Critical Theory Streams
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoTjLg50uNg0vp4llDbtf9w
Relevant book title:
Sex and the Failed Absolute by Slavoj Zizek
https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Failed-Absolute-Slavoj-Žižek/dp/1350043788
Bash Bash Revolution by Douglas Lain
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyoQK-mZXr2ws4C0nXGCH1w
Film Clips Included from
Suprematism in Our Life
https://youtu.be/UPHZOvv3wt4
Mothlight - Stan Brakhage
https://youtu.be/S5P5vkegmvU
Stellar - Stan Brakhage
https://youtu.be/L8r9t135_xY
The Ugly Little Boy
https://youtu.be/uMJpj5YvyL8
BooBah Opening
Short clip from "The Nines"
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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.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiwTFkcFGv0
This video is in response to both the EDA's book "Why are Animals Funny" and Eugene Thacker's "Tentacles Longer than Night."
The move towards the animal, the desire for the attainment of animal consciousness, is a move away from the depths of our responsibility as humans. It is not a way to escape from meaning, but is instead a move to naturalize and so obscure our view of the meanings and structures we produce and reproduce every day.
Why are Animals Funny?
http://www.zero-books.net/books/why-animals-funny
Tentacles Longer Than Night
http://www.zero-books.net/books/tentacles-longer-night
Some of the music in this video was made by Jukedeck
http://jukedeck.com
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsxD0H1zw5s
Jesse Singal is a contributing writer at NY Magazine and his work has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, The Boston Globe, The Daily Beast, and other outlets. He is also one of the most hated men on the internet and the target of a perpetual defamation campaign. He is the co-host of the podcast Blocked and Reported, and the author of a new book entitled the Quick Fix.
Relevant Book
The Quick Fix by Jesse Singal
https://paw.princeton.edu/new-books/quick-fix-why-fad-psychology-cant-cure-our-social-ills-jesse-singal-13
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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.
Zero Books aims to work against this trend.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MfgcwH1SwU
In the next of our series on reification, Varn moves to discussion reification in specific logical and linguistic fallacies. We will discuss Vicious Abstraction, a fallacy first named by William James, and how can be used to fool others and yourself.
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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.
Zero Books aims to work against this trend.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjMpGR8hHo8
This Communist Study Questions video features interviews from Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (aka Capitol Hill's Occupied Protest) along with commentary on Matt Taibbi. Nathan Robinson and the Left's insanity. It also features a lesson on dialectical materialism and Marx's critique of Proudhon.
Relevant Essays
The American Press Is Destroying Itself by Matt Taibbi
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-news-media-is-destroying-itself
Has The American Left Lost It's Mind by Nathan Robinson
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/06/has-the-american-left-lost-its-mind
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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.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR4YRdR-bss
This is the third Capital Reading discussion group. This time we'll cover Chapter One, Section 4: On the Fetish Nature of the Commodity.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLTx8rAeuso
Alfie Bown, author of Enjoying It: Candy Crush and Capitalism and co-founder of the the Everyday Analysis Collective, turns his attention to The Hunger Games and how radical gestures are appropriated by the very system they oppose.
http://www.zero-books.net/books/enjoying-it
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCodxV70y5I