A video by ZerO Books author Mike Watson promoting 'videos by the many', a hashtag campaign from Momentum in support of Labour in the 2019 UK General Election.
Mike Watson is author of Can the Left Learn to Meme?, out with ZerO Books November 29th.
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Alice's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AliceCappelle
We’re doomed. We hear this phrase more and more frequently. Collapse has become the framework through which we write, debate, theorise, and therefore make society.
In such times of crisis, women are more likely to see their rights attacked, their sexuality scrutinised. On social media, it is claimed that women are responsible for the downfall of Western society. To make matters worse, this anti-feminist discourse has merged with internet culture and is being pushed by the algorithm into users’ social media feeds.
Covering everything from the reactionary politics of the “manosphere” to sexual liberation, hookup culture, traditional femininity, the girlboss, and self-help content, Collapse Feminism looks at how this conservative backlash is being orchestrated online and why we must fight against it. Reversing our contemporary catastrophism, Alice Cappelle asks readers to join her and others in building a future that will liberate us all.
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Acid Horizon
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/acidhorizon
Merch: crit-drip.com
The Philosopher’s Tarot from Repeater Books: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/
The Horror Vanguard
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/horror-vanguard/id1445594437
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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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWl8xAfj2Pk
Acid Horizon is joined by Dan Lowe, a London-based therapist and counselor trained in Reichian therapy to discuss the work of Wilhelm Reich. In focus is Reich's concept of emotional armoring, the scientific basis of Reich's work, and legacy of 'functional orgonomics'. Various references in the episode are linked below:
Dan's info: https://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/counsellors/dan-lowe?_gl=1*1os1of4*_up*MQ..*_ga*NTkwMzI1NTAyLjE3MDQ2OTY3ODI.*_ga_BMWGCG64PD*MTcwNDY5Njc3OS4xLjAuMTcwNDY5Njc3OS4wLjAuMA
Acid Horizon - "Why We Chose Gods and Masters": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG6FvdivFgM
Natural History of the Bions: https://youtube.com/watch?v=NC2G-6trVMI&t=37s…
Robert Brown & the Bions: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8dLMvzpdsYo&t=232s…
James Strick - "Sex, Lies, and Bookburning": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKPvkguGSi8
Nick Totton, 'Different Bodies: Deconstructing Normality": https://www.amazon.co.uk/Different-Bodies-Deconstructing-Nick-Totton/dp/1915220319/ref=sr_1_1?crid=M2D0PTJ85MD2&keywords=nick+totton+different+bodies&qid=1704321546&sprefix=nick+tott,aps,71&sr=8-1
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The Philosopher’s Tarot from Repeater Books: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi4NP3PglTk
Rick Kuhn is an Australian Marxian economist, political analyst and reader at the Australian National University in Canberra. He is the author of many books, including Labor's Conflict-Big Business, Workers and the Politics of Class, and he is the editor of a collection of essays by Henryk Grossman called Capitalism’s Contradictions Studies of Economic Thought Before and After Marx.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQnKihvA8lc
This video is a response to Tatiana Cozzarelli's essay "Class Reductionism Is Real, and It’s Coming from the Jacobin Wing of the DSA," and a defense of Class Reductionism as Tatiana defines it, namely that the transformation of the class relations that set up our economic or productive activity will be enough to resolve the problem of racism. More specifically the video argues that a Marxist conception of socialism does understand ethnic, religious, legal, and political conflicts as arising out of class relations.
Along the way, an excerpt from an interview with Mark Fisher on the topic of his essay "Exiting the Vampire Castle" is revisited and his concept of Capitalist Realism is, perhaps, revised.
Relevant Writings
Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher/1112473996
https://www.waterstones.com/book/capitalist-realism/mark-fisher/9781846943171
Class Reductionism Is Real, and It’s Coming from the Jacobin Wing of the DSA by Tatiana Cozzarelli
https://www.leftvoice.org/class-reductionism-is-real-and-its-coming-from-the-jacobin-wing-of-the-dsa
Music
Beethoven's 9th Symphony from the Youtube Audio Library
Macintosh Plus's 420
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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.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spgXiTUzxws
Nobody can deny that we’re facing an environmental crisis. Animal species are dying off at an alarming rate, the oceans are dying, and the climate is changing. Even worse, our way of understanding and trying to address this crisis is captured within the very system that’s generating the crisis. This video takes excerpts from Leigh Phillips “Austerity Ecology,” and Frithjof Bergmann’s “New Work/New Culture” in an effort to find an exit from the kind of thinking that makes change seem impossible.
This video was made in collaboration with Art House Politics:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnuC9wCnogZA8VcTQJ1_5wg
Zero Books Logo Animations and other animations donated by Brian Cole
https://www.instagram.com/robotbloodco/
Related Books
New Work/New Culture by Frithjof Bergmann
https://www.amazon.com/New-Work-Culture-Want-Strengthens/dp/1789040647
Austerity Ecology and the Collapse Porn Addicts by Leigh Phillips
https://www.amazon.com/Austerity-Ecology-Collapse-Porn-Addicts-Progress/dp/1782799605
Background Music from Storyblocks
Also included:
Macintosh Plus 420 on Guitar by The Guests
https://theguests000.bandcamp.com/
420 by Macintosh Plus
https://youtu.be/bAgmGZ9iQ2Y
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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=G0mf7j756io
Daniel Coffeen is the author of the Zero Books title "Reading the Way of Things" and a frequent guest on this podcast and many others including the Partially Examined Life.
In this episode we discuss his essay: "On the Radical Empiricism of Rhetoric."
Here's an excerpt:
"A rhetorical reckoning riles many people up as it doesn't try to ground itself or its going in anything outside itself — in a truth or axiom or universal claim. It is indifferent to such things except in as much as such things are arguments, things to reckon. And so rather than ever being tethered or even seeking a tether, the rhetorician begins to enjoy all the different ways different things can go. It reads multiple ways to reckon a puppy or ballet or chair. Rather than stake a single claim, she — our rhetorician — takes delight in the going of things, in the possible ways of things. Which can be infuriating to someone who's adamant in a single belief. This is what ballet is!"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRQH_l1WrrE
CW: discussion of sexual assault and harassment.
Dr. Joshua Moufawad-Paul is one of the key figures in philosophy involved in the Maoist revival in theory today. With six books already to his name, this interview offers a retrospective on his publications, focused on his critically acclaimed 2016 book ‘Continuity and Rupture: Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain.’ In this interview, Josh discusses with Kenneth his political and intellectual trajectory as it led him from anarchism to autonomism to Maoism, as well as the issues latent in both Trotskyism and contemporary anti-capitalist organising writ large, including the spree of sexual harassment cases internally disguised by major communist organisations and the first-world left’s frequent eurocentrism.
If you are interested, you can purchase Josh’s book ‘Continuity and Rupture’ here: https://johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/continuity-rupture
Josh’s blog: http://moufawad-paul.blogspot.com
*Correction: Kenneth misspoke in describing the ‘comrade Delta’ scandal within the SWP, accidentally calling it the ‘agent Delta’ scandal.
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Acid Horizon
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/acidhorizon
Merch: crit-drip.com
The Philosopher’s Tarot from Repeater Books: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/
The Horror Vanguard
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/horror-vanguard/id1445594437
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/
Support Daniel Tutt's work by visiting the Torsion Groups
Patreon account: https://patreon.com/torsiongroups
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On this episode, the buddies revisit Fisher's blogpost "Terminator Versus Avatar" and explore its extended implications for the contemporary.
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Acid Horizon
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/acidhorizon
Merch: crit-drip.com
The Horror Vanguard
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard
Buddies Without Organs
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/my/podcast...
Website: https://buddieswithout.org/
Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/
Support Daniel Tutt's work by visiting the Torsion Groups Patreon account: https://patreon.com/torsiongroups
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blBvyYvS3uU
Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror offers dystopian visions of post-capitalist futures. This video examines Fifteen Million Merits and Nosedive, considers just how they fit within a Capitalist Realist framework, and determines just how these programs might give us a glimpse of post-capitalist societies.
Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism
http://www.zero-books.net/books/capitalist-realism
Edmund Berger's Uncertain Futures
http://www.zero-books.net/books/uncertain-futures-assessment-conditions-present
Some of the music in this episode was created by Jukedeck.
https://www.jukedeck.com
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