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Why do certain musical sounds move us while others leave us cold? Are musical trends simply that—or do they contain insights into the culture at large? Our guest is a musicologist who studies pop and electronic dance music. She's fascinated by the way EDM privileges timbral and rhythmic complexity over the chord changes and harmonic complexities of the blues-based rock and pop music of yore. However, Robin James is also a philosopher and she connects these musical structures to social and economic structures, not to mention structural racism and sexism.  In this episode, cris and Mack have a lengthy, freeform interview and listening session with Robin in which she breaks down the sounds of EDM, pop, hip hop, “chill” playlists, and industrial techno, conceiving them as varied responses to neoliberalism's intensification of capitalism. Her analysis includes lyrical content, but her main focus is the soars, stutters, breaks, and drops that mimic the socio-economic environment of the 21st century. It's an environment that demands resilience from all of us—and especially from women and people of color. Robin James's books include: ·      Resilience & Melancholy: pop music, feminism, neoliberalism (Zer0 Books, 2015). ·      The Sonic Episteme: acoustic resonance & biopolitics (Duke, 2019). ·      The Conjectural Body: Gender, Race, & the Philosophy of Music (Lexington Books, 2010). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Why do certain musical sounds move us while others leave us cold? Are musical trends simply that—or do they contain insights into the culture at large? Our guest is a musicologist who studies pop and electronic dance music. She's fascinated by the way EDM privileges timbral and rhythmic complexity over the chord changes and harmonic complexities of the blues-based rock and pop music of yore. However, Robin James is also a philosopher and she connects these musical structures to social and economic structures, not to mention structural racism and sexism.  In this episode, cris and Mack have a lengthy, freeform interview and listening session with Robin in which she breaks down the sounds of EDM, pop, hip hop, “chill” playlists, and industrial techno, conceiving them as varied responses to neoliberalism's intensification of capitalism. Her analysis includes lyrical content, but her main focus is the soars, stutters, breaks, and drops that mimic the socio-economic environment of the 21st century. It's an environment that demands resilience from all of us—and especially from women and people of color. Robin James's books include: ·      Resilience & Melancholy: pop music, feminism, neoliberalism (Zer0 Books, 2015). ·      The Sonic Episteme: acoustic resonance & biopolitics (Duke, 2019). ·      The Conjectural Body: Gender, Race, & the Philosophy of Music (Lexington Books, 2010). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

Why do certain musical sounds move us while others leave us cold? Are musical trends simply that—or do they contain insights into the culture at large? Our guest is a musicologist who studies pop and electronic dance music. She's fascinated by the way EDM privileges timbral and rhythmic complexity over the chord changes and harmonic complexities of the blues-based rock and pop music of yore. However, Robin James is also a philosopher and she connects these musical structures to social and economic structures, not to mention structural racism and sexism.  In this episode, cris and Mack have a lengthy, freeform interview and listening session with Robin in which she breaks down the sounds of EDM, pop, hip hop, “chill” playlists, and industrial techno, conceiving them as varied responses to neoliberalism's intensification of capitalism. Her analysis includes lyrical content, but her main focus is the soars, stutters, breaks, and drops that mimic the socio-economic environment of the 21st century. It's an environment that demands resilience from all of us—and especially from women and people of color. Robin James's books include: ·      Resilience & Melancholy: pop music, feminism, neoliberalism (Zer0 Books, 2015). ·      The Sonic Episteme: acoustic resonance & biopolitics (Duke, 2019). ·      The Conjectural Body: Gender, Race, & the Philosophy of Music (Lexington Books, 2010). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/music

Why do certain musical sounds move us while others leave us cold? Are musical trends simply that—or do they contain insights into the culture at large? Our guest is a musicologist who studies pop and electronic dance music. She's fascinated by the way EDM privileges timbral and rhythmic complexity over the chord changes and harmonic complexities of the blues-based rock and pop music of yore. However, Robin James is also a philosopher and she connects these musical structures to social and economic structures, not to mention structural racism and sexism.  In this episode, cris and Mack have a lengthy, freeform interview and listening session with Robin in which she breaks down the sounds of EDM, pop, hip hop, “chill” playlists, and industrial techno, conceiving them as varied responses to neoliberalism's intensification of capitalism. Her analysis includes lyrical content, but her main focus is the soars, stutters, breaks, and drops that mimic the socio-economic environment of the 21st century. It's an environment that demands resilience from all of us—and especially from women and people of color. Robin James's books include: ·      Resilience & Melancholy: pop music, feminism, neoliberalism (Zer0 Books, 2015). ·      The Sonic Episteme: acoustic resonance & biopolitics (Duke, 2019). ·      The Conjectural Body: Gender, Race, & the Philosophy of Music (Lexington Books, 2010). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sound-studies

Federico's 'The Last Night' on Zer0 Books: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/last-nightTechnic and Magic: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/technic-and-magic-9781350044036/We take for granted that only certain kind of things exist – electrons but not angels, passports but not nymphs. This is what we understand as 'reality'. But in fact, 'reality' varies with each era of the world, in turn shaping the field of what is possible to do, think and imagine. Our contemporary age has embraced a troubling and painful form of reality: Technic.Under Technic, the foundations of reality begin to crumble, shrinking the field of the possible and freezing our lives in an anguished state of paralysis. Technic and Magic shows that the way out of the present deadlock lies much deeper than debates on politics or economics. By drawing from an array of Northern and Southern sources – spanning from Heidegger, Junger and Stirner's philosophies, through Pessoa's poetry, to Advaita Vedanta, Bhartrhari, Ibn Arabi, Suhrawardi and Mulla Sadra's theosophies – Magic is presented as an alternative system of reality to Technic. While Technic attempts to capture the world through an 'absolute language', Magic centres its reconstruction of the world around the notion of the 'ineffable' that lies at the heart of existence.Technic and Magic is an original philosophical work, and a timely cultural intervention. It disturbs our understanding of the structure of reality, while restoring it in a new form. This is possibly the most radical act: if we wish to change our world, first we have to change the idea of 'reality' that defines it.Support Zer0 Books and Repeater Media on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterSubscribe: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0books, https://twitter.com/RepeaterBooks-----Other links:Check out the projects of some of the new contributors to Zer0 Books:Acid HorizonPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/acidhorizonMerch: crit-drip.comThe Philosopher's Tarot from Repeater Books: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/The Horror VanguardApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/horror-vanguard/id1445594437Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguardBuddies Without OrgansApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/buddies-without-organs/id1543289939Website: https://buddieswithout.org/Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/

Federico's 'The Last Night' on Zer0 Books: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/last-nightTechnic and Magic: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/technic-and-magic-9781350044036/We take for granted that only certain kind of things exist – electrons but not angels, passports but not nymphs. This is what we understand as 'reality'. But in fact, 'reality' varies with each era of the world, in turn shaping the field of what is possible to do, think and imagine. Our contemporary age has embraced a troubling and painful form of reality: Technic.Under Technic, the foundations of reality begin to crumble, shrinking the field of the possible and freezing our lives in an anguished state of paralysis. Technic and Magic shows that the way out of the present deadlock lies much deeper than debates on politics or economics. By drawing from an array of Northern and Southern sources – spanning from Heidegger, Junger and Stirner's philosophies, through Pessoa's poetry, to Advaita Vedanta, Bhartrhari, Ibn Arabi, Suhrawardi and Mulla Sadra's theosophies – Magic is presented as an alternative system of reality to Technic. While Technic attempts to capture the world through an 'absolute language', Magic centres its reconstruction of the world around the notion of the 'ineffable' that lies at the heart of existence.Technic and Magic is an original philosophical work, and a timely cultural intervention. It disturbs our understanding of the structure of reality, while restoring it in a new form. This is possibly the most radical act: if we wish to change our world, first we have to change the idea of 'reality' that defines it.Support the Show.Support the podcast:https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastZer0 Books and Repeater Media Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterMerch: http://www.crit-drip.comOrder 'Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/anti-oculus-a-philosophy-of-escape/Order 'The Philosopher's Tarot': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/169wvvhiHappy Hour at Hippel's (Adam's blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com​Revolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.com​Split Infinities (Craig's Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/​Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/

Grab the Book: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/combined-and-uneven-apocalypseFrom the repurposed rubble of salvagepunk to undead hordes banging on shopping mall doors, from empty waste zones to teeming plagued cities, Combined and Uneven Apocalypse grapples with the apocalyptic fantasies of our collapsing era. Moving through the films, political tendencies, and recurrent crises of late capitalism, Evan Calder Williams paints a black toned portrait of the dream  and nightmare  images of a global order gone very, very wrong. Situating itself in the defaulting financial markets of the present, Combined and Uneven Apocalypse glances back toward a messy history of zombies, car wrecks, tidal waves, extinction, trash heaps, labour, pandemics, wolves, cannibalism, and general nastiness that populate the underside of our cultural imagination. Every age may dream the end of the world to follow, but these scattered nightmare figures are a skewed refraction of the normal hell of capitalism. The apocalypse isn't something that will happen one day: it's just the slow unveiling of the catastrophe we've been living through for centuries. Against any fantasies of progress, return, or reconciliation, Williams launches a loathing critique of the bleak present and offers a graveside smile for our necessary battles to come.Support Zer0 Books and Repeater Media on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterSubscribe: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0books, https://twitter.com/RepeaterBooks-----Other links:Check out the projects of some of the new contributors to Zer0 Books:Acid HorizonPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/acidhorizonMerch: crit-drip.comThe Philosopher's Tarot from Repeater Books: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/The Horror VanguardApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/horror-vanguard/id1445594437Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguardBuddies Without OrgansApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/buddies-without-organs/id1543289939Website: https://buddieswithout.org/Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/

If you've been surfing the tech sphere lately, you may have come across the term e/acc or effective accelerationism as if it was something new. But like most of these tech elite driven ideologies, it's largely a mutation of more naive and sometimes sinister trends. For this episode I spoke to Adam Jones, host of Acid Horizon and Zer0 Books and Repeater Media and author of Anti-Oculus. Anti-Oculus is a psychedelic trip through the eyes of power, exploring avenues of escaping systems of control in our cyberpunk reality.During the interview, Adam helps explain the core of accelerationist theory, where it comes from, and what e/acc is. We also dive into the Techno-Optimist Manifesto from Marc Andreessen ,why it's a giant circle jerk and Nick Land would hate them. If you want to learn more about accelerationism and particularly left accelerationism , check out my interview with Nick Srnicek who wrote the left accelerationist manifesto.If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month. It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter (@TBSocialist) or Mastodon (@theblockchainsocialist@social.coop) and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit and Discord to join the discussion.Support the showICYMI I've written a book about, no surprise, blockchains through a left political framework! The title is Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It and is being published through Repeater Books, the publishing house started by Mark Fisher who's work influenced me a lot in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.

Today we're joined by Kenny Novis, a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford. We'll be talking about Kenny's experiences podcasting with Zer0 Books and Repeater Media, his research on Marxism, as well as his research on Spinoza. If you'd like to get in touch with Kenny, you can reach him via email at kenneth.novis@gmail.com, or on Twitter at @saditious.

Think you know everything about immigration policies under the Biden administration? Buckle up, because we're about to challenge your beliefs with our guest Dan Melo, as we explore the often turbid waters of these policies. We're pulling back the curtain on the striking similarities to the Trump era and how political distractions have overshadowed the need for viable solutions to pressing issues. Have you ever considered the economic implications of climate change on immigration? We peel back the layers on this complex issue and shine a spotlight on the influence of climate change as a key driver for global migration. We also reveal the sobering realities of economic exploitation in the immigration saga and how we could be facing an impending crisis if left unaddressed. Brace yourselves as we expose the shocking connection between US foreign policy in Central America and the ongoing narco policy. We analyze how our actions have perpetuated the current state of affairs and delve into the uncomfortable topics of reparations, immigration, and detention centers. By the end of this episode, you'll have a broader understanding of these complex issues and hopefully, a renewed perspective on how we can tackle the challenges of immigration.Daniel is a public sector immigration lawyer in the American Southeast who primarily works with refugees and is the son of a migrant himself. He is the author of "Borderlines" (Zer0 Books 2021). Support the showCrew:Host: C. Derick VarnAudio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ( @aufhebenkultur )Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Video Design: Jason MylesArt Design: Corn and C. Derick VarnLinks and Social Media:twitter: @skepoetYou can find the additional streams on Youtube

'Interventions' is a new series on Zer0 Books and Repeater Media which explores important philosophical concepts and political terms in short form. Bill Cashmore kicks off the series with a discussion of identity, identity politics, and the history surrounding relevant debates.Support Zer0 Books and Repeater Media on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterSubscribe: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0books, https://twitter.com/RepeaterBooks-----Other links:Check out the projects of some of the new contributors to Zer0 Books:Acid HorizonPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/acidhorizonMerch: crit-drip.comThe Philosopher's Tarot from Repeater Books: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/The Horror VanguardApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/horror-vanguard/id1445594437Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguardBuddies Without OrgansApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/buddies-without-organs/id1543289939Website: https://buddieswithout.org/Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/

Craig, Adam and Will from Acid Horizon discuss their book Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape, including reflections on cybernetics, police, paranoia, disability, and Ocularity. Acid Horizon is a podcasting collective of artists, musicians, and philosophers formed in 2020 with a focus on Marxist, post-structuralist, and anarchist philosophy. They also run seminars on philosophers such as Deleuze, Foucault, and George Bataille and run a sub-imprint, Zer0 Horizonz, over on Zer0 Books. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicineSoundtrack by Mark Pilkingtonwww.redmedicine.xyz

On a decade of protest around the world.   Journalist Vincent Bevins is back on the podcast to talk about his new book, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution. We discuss the 2010s protest wave across countries as varied as Egypt, Turkey, Brazil, Ukraine, Hong Kong, Chile, Bahrain, Yemen, South Korea and Tunisia.   We ask: Why were protests in places that were so different all look so similar? Why was there such a focus on spontaneity, leaderlessness, peformativity, and horizontalism? What are some examples of the ways protests rejected representation? Was class or generation more important in driving these protests? Why did media becomes so important in pursuing political change? How can we avoid a repeat of the failures of the 2010s? Links: If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution, Vincent Bevins, Public Affairs The mass protest decade: why did the street movements of the 2010s fail?, Vincent Bevins, The Guardian The End of the End of History: Politics in the 21st Century, Bungacast authors, Zer0 Books /121/ Those Murdering Bastards ft. Vincent Bevins /279/ Society of the Speculative ft. Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou

At Acid Horizon and Zer0 Books, we're inaugurating the spooky season with a slasher special courtesy of screenwriter and curator Maria Lewis and her latest novel 'The Graveyard Shift'. We get into the history of the slasher genre, deconstructing the horror of the knife-wielding killer from Jack the Ripper to Jason Voorhees. We interrogate the central trope of the 'final girl' and how to subvert it in a new, richer experience of the art form of fear.Maria Lewis is @moviemazzz on Twitter'The Graveyard Shift': https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734139/the-graveyard-shift-by-maria-lewis/Support the podcast:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastZer0 Books and Repeater Media Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterMerch: http://www.crit-drip.comOrder 'Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/anti-oculus-a-philosophy-of-escape/Order 'The Philosopher's Tarot': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/169wvvhiHappy Hour at Hippel's (Adam's blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com​Revolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.com​Split Infinities (Craig's Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/​Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/Support the show

In an exhilarating journey through economic history, we welcome renowned author Steve Paxton to our podcast. His works "Unlearning Marx" (Zer0 Books 2021) and "The End of Capitalism" (Zer0 Book  2023) serve as the compass, guiding our exploration. With Steve's insights, we unravel the transformation of societies from feudalism to capitalism and ponder on what might succeed capitalism. His perspective on Marxist theory offers invaluable insights into the possible future economic systems.Together we trace the evolution of capitalism, from its humble origins in Tudor Enclosure in England to its contemporary form. We find ourselves engrossed in a discussion about capitalism's resilience, its failure to meet the needs of those who cannot enrich the system, and the role of financialization in widening the gap of inequality. As we delve deeper, we also question capitalism's future and the inevitability of its end. Going beyond capitalism, Steve presents an interesting comparison between his approach and the Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). He suggests the idea of the state as an 'employer of best practice.' But what does that mean? Could this be the key to moving past capitalism and creating a more equitable society? We also analyze the impact of AI on future employment and its potential to disrupt the current state of capitalism. This episode promises a riveting discussion on the past, present, and future of capitalism, ending with Steve sharing his thoughts on the implications of AI on capitalism and jobs. Join us for this enlightening conversation! Support the showCrew:Host: C. Derick VarnAudio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ( @aufhebenkultur )Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Video Design: Jason MylesArt Design: Corn and C. Derick VarnLinks and Social Media:twitter: @skepoetYou can find the additional streams on Youtube

Features the lecture ‘‘Dystopian or dysfunctional? The 21st-century state' recorded at Living Freedom Summer School 2023. In recent years, governments have appeared directionless and often incompetent. Institutions riven with disputes over cultural values seem unsure of what they stand for. Crisis seems to be the word of the year - energy crisis, cost-of-living crisis, climate crisis, housing crisis – meaning a ‘state of emergency' is now ubiquitous. What is distinct about today's elites and their attempts to exercise authority? How should we understand the relationship between authority and authoritarian? For those keen to make the case for freedom, what should we be concerned about today and how do we make the case for renewing liberty? LECTURER Josie Appleton director, Manifesto Club; author, Officious: Rise of the Busybody state. READ ON The emergency addiction Josie Appleton, Notes on Freedom, 21 May 2023 Officious: Rise of the busybody state, Zer0 Books, 2016 LIVING FREEDOM Living Freedom exists to renew freedom through education and debate, offering young adults the opportunity to explore ideas and debate ideals as they relate to the past, present, and future of freedom. See www.livingfreedom.org.uk and @LivingFreedomUK IDEAS MATTER PODCAST Ideas Matter is a podcast that takes the most important issues of our times and explores the ideas and intellectual trends that have shaped where we are today. Subscribe via Spotify, iTunes, Podbean or SoundCloud. Email us at info@ideasmatter.org.uk

We're joined by Hatty Nestor, author of Ethical Portraits: In Search of Representational Justice, published by Zer0 Books last year. Hatty talks to us about how the carceral system dehumanises the people caught in its machinery and how this is reflected visually through mugshots and courtroom drawings circulated in the media, but also through surveillance methods like facial recognition technology, forensics and DNA sampling. Ethical Portraits asks the question: ‘How can understanding the visual representation of prisoners help us confront the invisible forms of power in the American prison system?' We also discuss being half-American and how this affects all three of our worldviews, how portraits and portrayal are weaponised by a repressive surveillance state, the 'affective potential of art' and whether it can be revolutionary, Chelsea Manning, prison and police abolition, and finally how you can be both perverted and Italian at the same time. Check out Ethical Portraits and more of Hatty Nestor's writing here: https://hattynestor.com/Editorial

A taster of the full Patreon subscribers' episode! Founder and editor of Sublation Media and ex-Zer0 Books editor Doug Lain joins for a monster discussion of the recent history of Left media, its failures on COVID and state collusion in social media companies, the weird turn of the Democratic Party in Biden's challengers RFK jnr. and Marianne Williamson, and looking back on Kill All Normies. 

“I learned so much about viewing the world, especially mass media, through a critical eye this year. I learned about what traps we fall into while viewing media and how we can prevent that. I also learned about good vs. questionable journalism tactics and how this can affect how accurate a news source is.”My guest today, Sam Shain, is a musician, artist, writer, former journalist and current English teacher in Maine. That opening quote was just one student review of Sam's journalism class from his book Education Revolution: Media Literacy for Political Awareness, available from Zer0 Books. Teaching in the United States has never been more fraught, as teachers across the country are implicitly or explicitly forced to avoid certain topics, texts, and questions that have been labeled divisive, controversial, or - worse yet - political. Of course, these topics also tend to be the most immediate & important, and are accompanied by intense mis- & disinformation - the reality of climate change, systemic racism, COVID-19, and the outcomes of our electoral system, to take some examples from just the last couple of years - all of this seems particularly heightened with the new ability of AI to generate audio, video, and images to spread politically motivated narratives easier than ever before via social media, and a receptive population willing not only to accept them but to participate in spreading mis- & disinformation. As the student testimonial I read earlier testifies to, the gap has never been wider between our vital need to teach critical media literacy and our ability. To do. Just that. GuestsSam Shain is a former journalist and English teacher. He believes education is the way out of our country's current predicament and teachers and students can lead the revolution in turning this country around. Sam wrote for the Capital Weekly for several years and occasionally contributes to the Kennebec Journal.In addition to teaching and writing, Sam sings and plays guitar in the band the Scolded Dogs, who play frequently throughout Maine and have released several original albums. Sam lives in Hallowell, Maine.Resources"Not Rehired for Teaching Politics": One Teacher's StoryEducation Revolution from Zer0 Books Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  We're joined by Daniel Tutt once again, and this time we're speaking about his newest work- Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiation.  Daniel is a professor and philosopher of psychoanalysis and Marxist thought, and he is the convener of Study Groups on Psychoanalysis and politics, a public learning platform that offers study groups, seminars, and podcasts.    Daniel Tutt – Twitter, Patreon, Website Daniel's podcast – Jouissance Vampires Study Groups on Psychoanalysis and Politics on YouTube Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiation by Daniel Tutt Conver/gences presents “Nietzsche, The Aristocratic Rebel” for Zer0 Books and No Easy Answers   Consider tossing us a buck or two to keep the lights on:   No Easy Answers on Patreon   And send us your feedback noeasyanswerspodcast@gmail.com   And consider leaving us a 5 star review.  I said consider it I didn't mean actually do it.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/noeasyanswers/support

Alienation, generational tensions, rampant nationalism and the pervasiveness of atomic danger are all topics that haunted late Soviet citizens, and those fears are reflected in the films meant to represent their horror genre. In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, production of horror movies from independent filmmakers and Hollywood skyrocketed. It was a time of intense Cold War conflict and a resurgence of conservative ideals. It's not difficult to imagine that the ascent of horror occurred in conjunction with an increasingly scary and alienated world, and horror reflected those freights in the form of nuclear holocausts, toxic waste pollution, alien clown invaders and undead houseguests. Everyone was at risk - teenagers especially - because their present and future remained most uncertain. If we can agree that such feelings underpinned American viewers in the age of Reagan and neo-liberalism, then what about late socialism? How did film makers depict Soviet society's fears?Buy the book here: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/fear-before-fall-horror-films-late-soviet-unionSupport Zer0 Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooksSubscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooksFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0books-----Other links:Check out the projects of some of the new contributors to Zer0 Books:Acid HorizonPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/acidhorizonMerch: crit-drip.comThe Philosopher's Tarot from Repeater Books: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/The Horror VanguardApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/horror-vanguard/id1445594437Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguardBuddies Without OrgansApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/buddies-without-organs/id1543289939Website: https://buddieswithout.org/Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/Support Daniel Tutt's work by visiting the Torsion Groups Patreon account: https://patreon.com/torsiongroups

Links from the show:* Connect with Frank on Twitter* Read Frank's newsletter* Frank's booksAbout my guest: Frank Furedi is a sociologist and social commentator. He is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent in Canterbury. Since the late 1990s, Frank has been widely cited about his views on why Western societies find it so difficult to engage with risk and uncertainty. He has published widely about controversies relating to issues such as health, parenting children, food and new technology. His book Invitation To Terror; Expanding the Empire of the Unknown (2007) explores the way in which the threat of terrorism has become amplified through the ascendancy of precautionary thinking. It develops the arguments contained in two previous books, Culture of Fear (2002) and Paranoid Parenting (2001). Both of these works investigate the interaction between risk consciousness and perceptions of fear, trust relations and social capital in contemporary society. ​ Frank has also written extensively about issues to do with education and cultural life. His book, Wasted: Why Education Is Not Educating (2009) deals with the influence of the erosion of adult authority on schooling. On Tolerance (2011) offers a restatement of the importance of this concept for an open society. Authority: A Sociological History (2013) examines how the modern world has become far more comfortable with questioning authority than with affirming it. ​ Frank is committed to promoting the ideals of a humanist education and his writings on higher education are devoted to affirming the value of the liberal arts. His forthcoming book is titled Democracy Under Siege: Don't Let Them Lock It Down! and will be published by Zer0 Books in October 2020. The book offers a positive affirmation of the principle and the value of democracy. ​ At present he is engaged in a research project that explores the history of the relationship between the problem of identity and the difficulty that western society has in engaging with issues pertaining to morality. His work has as its focus on the process of socialisation and intergenerational relations. Furedi's studies on the problem of morality run in parallel with his exploration of the problem of cultural authority. Since Authority, A Sociological History (Cambridge University Press 2013) he has published a study a study The First World War: Still No End In Sight – which interprets this event as the precursor of today's Culture Wars. His study, Populism And The Culture Wars In Europe: the conflict of values between Hungary and the EU, discusses the sociological implications of the tension between populists and anti-populist political currents. His forthcoming book, Why We Need Borders seeks to explain the significance that physical borders and symbolic boundaries have for providing communities with meaning. ​ Frank's books and articles offer an authoritative yet lively account of key developments in contemporary cultural life. Using his insights as a professional sociologist, he has produced a series of agenda-setting books that have been widely discussed in the media. His books have been translated into 13 languages. ​ Frank regularly comments on radio and television. He has appeared on Newsnight, Sky News and BBC News, Radio Four's Today programme, and a variety of other radio television shows. Internationally, he has been interviewed by the media in Australia, Canada, the United States, Poland, Holland, Belgium, Brazil, and Germany. His articles have been published in New Scientist, the Guardian, the Independent, the Financial Times, the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Express, the Daily Mail, the Wall Street Journal, the Independent on Sunday, India Today, L'Espresso, The Times, The Sunday Times, the Observer, the Sunday Telegraph, the Globe and Mail (Toronto), the Christian Science Monitor, the Times Higher Education Supplement, spiked, the Times Literary Supplement, Harvard Business Review, Die Welt and Die Zeit, among others. Get full access to Dispatches from the War Room at dispatchesfromthewarroom.substack.com/subscribe

In the search for new weapons, history itself becomes an arsenal of struggles. In the material processes of world history, one finds the principle of hope. These ideas are central to the work of the German Marxist Ernst Bloch, and on this episode Jon AKA TheLitCritGuy from Horror Vanguard and Profane Illuminations and B from Zer0 Books join Will and Adam in exploring and introducing his vast corpus. We discussed Bloch's theory of Utopian Hope, his relationship to Hegelian Marxism and Lukacs, and the theology of revolution.We based our talk on Jon's essay "A Primer on Utopian Philosophy: Marxism and Utopian Struggle", you can check it out and support Jon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/primer-on-and-76597996 Support Zer0 Books and Repeater Media on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooksSubscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooksFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0books-----Other links:Check out the projects of some of the new contributors to Zer0 Books:Acid HorizonPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/acidhorizonSupport the podcast:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastMerch: http://www.crit-drip.comOrder 'The Philosopher's Tarot': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/169wvvhiHappy Hour at Hippel's (Adam's blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com​Revolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.com​Split Infinities (Craig's Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/​Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/The Horror VanguardApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/horror-vanguard/id1445594437Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguardBuddies Without OrgansApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/buddies-without-organs/id1543289939Website: https://buddieswithout.org/Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/Support Daniel Tutt's work by visiting the Torsion Groups Patreon account: https://patreon.com/torsiongroups

In the search for new weapons, history itself becomes an arsenal of struggles. In the material processes of world history, one finds the principle of hope. These ideas are central to the work of the German Marxist Ernst Bloch, and on this episode Jon AKA TheLitCritGuy from Horror Vanguard and Profane Illuminations and B from Zer0 Books join Will and Adam in exploring and introducing his vast corpus. We discussed Bloch's theory of Utopian Hope, his relationship to Hegelian Marxism and Lukacs, and the theology of revolution.We based our talk on Jon's essay "A Primer on Utopian Philosophy: Marxism and Utopian Struggle", you can check it out and support Jon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/primer-on-and-76597996 Support the podcast:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastZer0 Books and Repeater Media Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterMerch: http://www.crit-drip.comOrder 'The Philosopher's Tarot': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/169wvvhiHappy Hour at Hippel's (Adam's blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com​Revolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.com​Split Infinities (Craig's Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/​Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/Support the show

This episode of Guerrilla History is with Professor Harvey J. Kaye about his book The British Marxist Historians, the first and most complete study of the work of the British Marxist intellectuals Maurice Dobb, Rodney Hilton, Christopher Hill, Eric Hobsbawm, and E.P. Thompson, and has just gotten released as a new edition from Zer0 Books.  A fascinating conversation about a fascinating group of characters! Harvey J. Kaye is Professor Emeritus of Democracy and Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay.  In addition to The British Marxist Historians, he written numerous other books including Take Hold of Our History: Make America Radical Again, Thomas Paine and the Promise of America, and The Fight for the Four Freedoms.  He can be followed on twitter @harveyjkaye Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory  We also have a (free!) newsletter you can sign up for, a great resource for political education!

Rendering Unconscious episode 220. Dr. James A. Smith is a literary scholar and political commentator. His literary scholarship focuses on mid eighteenth-century literature, especially the work of Samuel Richardson and the reception of Shakespeare. He also writes about the history of literary criticism and critical theory: in particular the approaches of F.R. Leavis, Walter Benjamin, the British New Left, and the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan. Dr. Smith is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Theory, Department of English at Royal Holloway, University of London. https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/en/persons/james-smith His first book is Samuel Richardson and the Theory of Tragedy (Manchester University Press). Other People's Politics: Populism to Corbynism was published by Zer0 Books in 2019. Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism (co-written with Mareile Pfannebecker) appeared with Zed Books in 2020. James A. Smith is co-host of The Popular Show podcast. Follow at Twitter: https://twitter.com/thepopularpod YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/popularitymedia Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod You can support the podcast at our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Your support is greatly appreciated! This episode available to view at YouTube: https://youtu.be/GWz937ZbXpg Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst who lives in Sweden and works internationally: www.drvanessasinclair.net Follow Dr. Vanessa Sinclair on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/rawsin_ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rawsin_/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drvanessasinclair23 Visit the main website for more information and links to everything: www.renderingunconscious.org The song at the end of the episode is "Lunacy" by Vanessa Sinclair and Carl Abrahamsson from the album of the same name available from Trapart Films / Highbrow Lowlife: https://vanessasinclaircarlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com/album/lunacy-ost Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com Image: The Popular Show podcast

Bioturbation; Or, The Humiliation of HuMan by WRMSIn this episode we welcome Jon K Shaw to discuss his work Bioturbation; Or, The Humiliation of Human by WRMS, a 13 minute sound work. Digging through layers of jazz, poetry, news reports and Jon's own voice, worms are the central character, an essential creature in the process of making soil, and sustaining life on earth. Together we explore how to become more worm-like, both as a necessary force in ecology, and as a metaphor for how we, as humans, metabolise life; how process and product, eating and excreting, could exist within other beings. Through the bodily movements of the worms, moving the strata of soil and remaking nutritional gradients, their acts of worldbuilding become a tangible perspective from which to speculate new narratives on waste, extraction and being with the planet. Bio:Jon K Shaw is a writer, editor, educator and irregular farmhand based in Orkney. He teaches in a number of universities and colleges including the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London; and in postgraduate Fine Arts at West Dean College of Arts and Conservation -- though none of these institutions support his research. With Tom Robinson he founded and edited Rattle: A Journal at the Convergence of Art and Writing, and with Theo Reeves-Evison edited and introduced the book Fiction as Method (Sternberg, 2017). He is commissioning editor of the new Zer0 Books series Zer0 Agri, which aims to reconnect real agricultural practice and progressive politics. The imprint will launch its first books in 2023. Amongst other writing projects, Jon is currently finishing a book on Antonin Artaud's ecological thought, called Lucid Materialism. His "annotated photo-essay" on the film-philosophy of Pierre Creton and the seaweed-eating sheep of North Ronaldsay will be published by SHIMA journal in early 2023.Artist: Jon K ShawHosts: Nina Davies and Niamh SchmidtkeMusic: Joe Moss and John TrevaskisProducer: Flo LinesBroadcast through Radio Thamesmead

To celebrate the release of The British Marxist Historians on Zer0 Books, Kyle, Will, and Adam sat down with the author Professor Harvey J. Kaye to discuss Marxist historiography, theories of class determination, class-struggle analysis, and the project of writing a history from the bottom up.  We talked peasants revolts, the role of culture in class struggle, the question of 'objectivity' in historical narrative, and knocking back vodkas with Frederic Jameson!Support Zer0 Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooksSubscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooksFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0books-----Other links:Check out the projects of some of the new contributors to Zer0 Books:Acid HorizonPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/acidhorizonMerch: crit-drip.comThe Philosopher's Tarot from Repeater Books: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/The Horror VanguardApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/horror-vanguard/id1445594437Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguardBuddies Without OrgansApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/buddies-without-organs/id1543289939Website: https://buddieswithout.org/Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/Support Daniel Tutt's work by visiting the Torsion Groups Patreon account: https://patreon.com/torsiongroups

Craig from Acid Horizon interviews Neil Usher, author of the September 2022 release from Zer0 Books, Unf*cking Work:"Every journey starts with the realization that we don't have to take any more of this crap.The world of work – and all that's wrong with it – is dominated by 12 statements. We hear them every day. We utter them at will. But they're all garbage.What if we said – no more?This is the business book for everyone who can't bear to read business books. Which is most of us. It considers that in being part of the problem – an uncomfortable admission – we may also be the creators of the solution. In uncompromising, engaging and humorous fashion, it dismantles each statement and sets us on the path to a better world of work.You can read each essay between meetings you'd rather not be at, after which, your working life will never be the same again."Support Zer0 Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooksSubscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooksFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0books-----Other links:Check out the projects of some of the new contributors to Zer0 Books:Acid HorizonPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/acidhorizonMerch: crit-drip.comThe Philosopher's Tarot from Repeater Books: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/The Horror VanguardApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/horror-vanguard/id1445594437Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguardBuddies Without OrgansApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/buddies-without-organs/id1543289939Website: https://buddieswithout.org/Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/Support Daniel Tutt's work by visiting the Torsion Groups Patreon account: https://patreon.com/torsiongroups

Ben Woodard is a highly accomplished contemporary philosopher and cultural theorist who works to devise conceptions of reality beyond and productive of the human. In this episode of the Zer0 Books Archive, Adam from Acid Horizon and Kenny speak with Ben Woodard about his 2012 book Slime Dynamics: Generation, Mutation, and the Creep of Life. This book explores what Woodard terms dark vitalism and the sliminess of life, which challenge the thesis that life is inherently positive. Woodard's philosophy is also guided by his naturalistic reading of Schelling and his attempts to creatively escape anthropocentrism's metaphysical and ethical limits.Slime Dynamics: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/slime-dynamicsBen's blog: https://naughtthought.wordpress.com/about/Support Zer0 Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooksSubscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooksFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0books-----Other links:Check out the projects of some of the new contributors to Zer0 Books:Acid HorizonPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/acidhorizonMerch: crit-drip.comThe Philosopher's Tarot from Repeater Books: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/The Horror VanguardApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/horror-vanguard/id1445594437Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguardBuddies Without OrgansApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/buddies-without-organs/id1543289939Website: https://buddieswithout.org/Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/Support Daniel Tutt's work by visiting the Torsion Groups Patreon account: https://patreon.com/torsiongroups

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-ruptureJosh'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.Support Zer0 Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooksSubscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooksFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0books-----Other links:Check out the projects of some of the new contributors to Zer0 Books:Acid HorizonPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/acidhorizonMerch: crit-drip.comThe Philosopher's Tarot from Repeater Books: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/The Horror VanguardApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/horror-vanguard/id1445594437Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguardBuddies Without OrgansApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/buddies-without-organs/id1543289939Website: https://buddieswithout.org/Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/Support Daniel Tutt's work by visiting the Torsion Groups Patreon account: https://patreon.com/torsiongroups

Purchase Night 2: A Philosophy of the Last World here: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/night-volume2-philosophy-last-worldAlso, find Night: A Philosophy of After Dark here: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/night-philosophy-after-darkJason Bahbak Mohaghegh, philosopher, translator, associate professor of comparative literature at Babson College and the author of several books that thematically address topics of mania, apparition, violence, cruelty, madness, silence, apocalypticism, demonology, the literature and art forms of antiquity, modern art, poetry, architecture, inventive explorations of eastern and western literary forms, subjects, and ideas. Jason joins Zer0 in this interview to discuss Night 2: A Philosophy of the Last World. The first volume, Night: A Philosophy of After Dark was released by Zer0 in 2020. Night 2 work engages with night as a philosophical framework by which the structures and discourse tied to enlightenment, those of 'truth, absolutism, and idealism' are disrupted by their conceptual foils.Support Zer0 Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooksSubscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooksFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0books-----Other links:Check out the projects of some of the new contributors to Zer0 Books:Acid HorizonPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/acidhorizonMerch: crit-drip.comThe Horror VanguardApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguardBuddies Without OrgansApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/my/podcast...Website: https://buddieswithout.org/Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/

This public episode is the first part of a new collaboration with Sublation/Diet Soap Media, a new platform founded by Doug Lain, former editor of Zer0 Books. Published both on our own podcast feed and as a video version on the Sublation/Diet Soap Media YouTube channel, this will be our main weekly show, incorporating segments from the bigger interviews reserved just for Patrons. This episode takes the second defeat of Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the first round of the French Presidential election as an opportunity to reflect on the end of the 'left populist' electoral experiments of the past decade with Survation's Carl Shoben, before turning to the US Republican Party's wave of anti-LGBT legislation with River Page - a writer with American Affairs, Twink Revolution, and Compact Magazine. The patrons-only full interview with Carl is TPS71, and the discussion with River continues as TPS73. Please consider supporting us at this exciting time by joining our Patreon community. 

A retrospective of the life and work of Sylvère Lotringer.Owen Hatherley on Zero: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/ze...Owen's other recent work:https://www.versobooks.com/books/3789...https://repeaterbooks.com/product/red...Support Zer0 Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooksSubscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooksFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0booksOther links:Check out the projects of some of the new contributors to Zer0 Books:Acid HorizonPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/acidhorizonMerch: crit-drip.comProfane IlluminationsTwitter: https://twitter.com/profaneshowThe Horror VanguardPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguardBuddies Without OrgansWebsite: https://buddieswithout.org/Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/

On this episode of the Zer0 Books Archive, Will interviews Grafton Tanner about his 2016 book Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts. Grafton works at the University of Georgia, in the Department of Communication Studies, and has written two more recent books, apt for our contemporary moment: The Circle of the Snake: Nostalgia and Utopia in the Age of Big Tech, published with Zer0 in 2020, and most recently The Hours Have Lost Their Clock: The Politics of Nostalgia, published in October 2021 with Repeater Books. It is now over 10 years since the release of perhaps the most important work of the vaporwave genre, Macintosh Plus's Floral Shoppe, whose influence on digital aesthetics, both sonic and visual, is today undeniable. This discussion is an attempt at reawakening of the theoretical and practical implications of Babbling Corpse, touching on concepts of the non-human, nostalgia, hauntology, and making reference to the work of Derrida, Fisher, Meillasoux, Eshun, Haraway and Deleuze. Towards the end, we try to think about what nostalgia could do for the left today.Support Zer0 Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooksSubscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooksFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0books-----Other links:Check out the projects of some of the new contributors to Zer0 Books:Acid HorizonPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpo...iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/acidhorizonMerch: crit-drip.comProfane IlluminationsTwitter: https://twitter.com/profaneshowThe Horror VanguardPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguardiTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...Buddies Without OrgansWebsite: https://buddieswithout.org/Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast...Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/

Eliot Rosenstock is a psychotherapist working for an app from the UK, the author of The Ego and Its Hyperspace, and the author of Zizek in the Clinic. In this interview, he explains how Freud and Stirner might be combined in clinical practice during the first half and discusses how he's been treated by the new publishing managers at Zer0 Books in the second half for patrons only. 

Last year, Buddies Without Organs explored the works of Gilles Deleuze. Now, in association with Zer0 Books, we are turning towards the lesser-known works of Mark Fisher.Fisher is a writer we all already love, and we felt he'd be great to read together. We're starting as we intend to go on with a oft-neglected post from the Hyperstition blog about the 1970s children's serial, Children of the Stones -- a series that Fisher suggests is an example of an underrepresented British sci-fi genre: "megalithic astropunk".EPISODE LINKSMark Fisher, "Megalithic Astropunk": http://hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org/archives/004932.htmlChildren of the Stones: https://youtube.com/watch?v=SwT0wLnT7RcCCRU, "Syzygy": http://ccru.net/syzygy.htmSupport Zer0 Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooksSubscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooksFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0books-----Check out the projects of some of the new contributors to Zer0 Books:Acid HorizonPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpo...iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/acidhorizonMerch: crit-drip.comProfane IlluminationsTwitter: https://twitter.com/profaneshowThe Horror VanguardPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguardiTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...Buddies Without OrgansWebsite: https://buddieswithout.org/Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast...Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/

Last year, Buddies Without Organs explored the works of Gilles Deleuze. Now, in association with Zer0 Books, we are turning towards the lesser-known works of Mark Fisher. Fisher is a writer we all already love, and we felt he’d be great to read together. We’re starting as we intend to go on with a oft-neglectedContinue reading "Episode #1: Megalithic Astropunk"

On this episode of Zer0 Books Archives, Will and Craig of Acid Horizon are joined by Stephen Shapiro and Philip Barnard to discuss their translation of Guery's and Deluele's The Productive Body. The Productive Body was a remarkably influential text that was foundational to Foucault's treatment of the body in works such as Discipline and Punish. Yet, it remained relatively unknown in the anglophone world. This book attempts to unpack Marx's conception of the division of labor, large-scale industry, and cooperation with the goal showing how capitalist production breaks down the body and reformulates it, producing something new and essential – the productive body.Support Zer0 Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooksSubscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooksFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0books-----Other links:The book: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/productive-bodyWill's blog: http://www.revoltingbodies.comCheck out the projects of some of the new contributors to Zer0 Books:Acid HorizonPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpo...iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/acidhorizonMerch: crit-drip.comProfane IlluminationsTwitter: https://twitter.com/profaneshowThe Horror VanguardPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguardiTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...Buddies Without OrgansWebsite: https://buddieswithout.org/Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast...Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/

Today, Adam from Acid Horizon welcomes Jacob Blumenfeld into the Zer0 Books Archives to discuss his 2018 Zer0 Books text All Things Are Nothing To Me: The Unique Philosophy of Max Stirner. Adam and Jacob discuss the context and legacy of this often-forgotten thinker of the left and a key influence on Marx and Engels in their development of dialectical materialism. They discuss Stirner's critique of identity, his notion of ‘egoism', his ideas around self-ownership as a critique of ideology, his critique of Utopian Socialism, and dive into Jacob's thesis of a Stirnerian egoism as  ‘Marx's Communism from the First-Person Perspective'. This is an essential book for those interested in the Young Hegelian origins of Marx and Engels, and a communist theory that takes the fulfilment of the needs of the social and personal individual at its heart, at the same time as it encourages the creative development of the powers of all to enjoy themselves as an insurgent force of creativity; beyond debt, state, God, morality, and capital.You can find the book at: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/all-things-are-nothing-to-meYou can read some of Jacob's recent writings for the Brooklyn Rail here:Lifting the Ban, July 2021https://brooklynrail.org/2021/07/field-notes/Lifting-the-BanNormality is Death, June 2020https://brooklynrail.org/2020/06/field-notes/Normality-is-DeathYou can also check out Jacob's wider academic work at these links:https://uni-oldenburg.academia.edu/JacobBlumenfeldhttps://cominsitu.wordpress.com/Adam's (interviewer) blog: https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com/Support Zer0 Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooksSubscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooksFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0books-----Other links:The book: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/productive-bodyWill's blog: http://www.revoltingbodies.comCheck out the projects of some of the new contributors to Zer0 Books:Acid HorizonPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpo...iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/acidhorizonMerch: crit-drip.comProfane IlluminationsTwitter: https://twitter.com/profaneshowThe Horror VanguardPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguardiTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...Buddies Without OrgansWebsite: https://buddieswithout.org/Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast...Xeongothic: https://xenogothic.com/

How Doug came to run the leftwing book publisher Zer0 Books, and why he got kicked out ... Dave Chappelle, cancel culture, and the attention economy ... Doug narrates his ejection from Zer0 ... Doug's new company, Diet Soap Media ... How Bloggingheads was ahead of its time (yet failed to conquer the globe) ... How you can help shape the future of Culturally Determined ... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

How Doug came to run the leftwing book publisher Zer0 Books, and why he got kicked out ... Dave Chappelle, cancel culture, and the attention economy ... Doug narrates his ejection from Zer0 ... Doug's new company, Diet Soap Media ... How Bloggingheads was ahead of its time (yet failed to conquer the globe) ... How you can help shape the future of Culturally Determined ...

On the left outflanked.   We continue our discussion with Douglas Lain, formerly of Zer0 Books and now of Diet Soap Media. Has the left been overtaken by events - yet again? And we propose a typology of a left divided between progressives, populists and Marxists – progressives who are authoritarian, populists who are opportunists, and Marxists who are lonely.   Hey listener - why not tell us how you see Bunga and the world? Fill out our listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NN6SPD9   Links: Diet Soap Media: Patreon | YouTube OK Bunger! The Problem of Generations This is an excerpt. For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast.

Conrad Hamilton is a member of Kapital Comrades, an author for Zer0 Books, and a member of the Aelita Collective. He joins Douglas Lain in this episode of the Diet Soap podcast to discuss post-pandemic politics and how the left should handle lockdowns, the State, and in order to collect an apology.Link to Manifestohttps://tripleampersand.org/state-covid-manifesto-pandemic-politics/

On branding and the left.  Douglas Lain, until recently publisher of Zer0 Books and now of Diet Soap Media, joins us to talk about what happened with Zer0. Mainly, we discuss the left at the End of History, revisit No Logo and the anti-branding stance, and compare Gen X and Millennial lefts - is it just a continual story of decline? Links: Diet Soap Media: Patreon | YouTube OK Bunger! The Problem of Generations

Fresh back from a brief hiatus last month, the Acid Horizon crew kick things off with the latest edition of Answers without Organs. In this episode Craig, Will, Matt, and Adam answer queries from patrons and twitter followers on such topics as: the use of psychoanalysis in political thought today, the meaning of philosophizing, getting critical theory work out there, Hardt and Negri on the Multitude and Digitalization, Plato's greatest hits, Nietzsche's interpreters, and the fundamental question of political philosophy; why do people fight for their servitude as if it were their salvation?  — Also in the works is our upcoming collaboration with Zer0 Books on our new series "Zer0 Books Archives" where we go through some of our favourite hidden gems of the Zer0 catalogue. We hope you'll enjoy them in the coming months!Zer0 Books YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/Zer0Books Subscribe to Acid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastMerch: http://www.crit-drip.comSubscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/169wvvhi Happy Hour at Hippel's (Adam's blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.comNew Revolts (Matt's Blog): https://newrevolts.com/​Revolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.com​Split Infinities (Craig's Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/​Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast)

Michael Albert is the author of the book "No Bosses," which is forthcoming from the British imprint Zer0 Books. He is also the former editor of South End Press, the co-founder of Z-Magazine, and a friend of Noam Chomsky. This interview covers some of the ideas in his upcoming book.

Critic and Zer0 Books author Mike Watson discusses his new work The Memeing of Mark Fisher and the legacy of the Frankfurt School. We attempt to map the territory beyond Capitalist Realism, as the co-creator of the Acid Left project shares his thoughts on Keir Starmer, Acid Communism, memes and mental health.

Cyberpunk and Cyberdystopia w/ RU Siris and Doug Lain There was once a time where information and communications technology were seen as having an emancipatory potential. To some in the 1980s and 1990s, we were on the verge of a techno-utopia. However, in recent years, this dream has turned to dust with the rise of big tech capitalism, algorithmic data collection, mass surveillance, and social media disinformation. What happen to the dream of a better tomorrow? Do we live in a cyber dystopia? And what are the prospects for emancipation from this freaky machine? RU Sirius & Doug Lain RU Sirius, futurist, cyberpunk, and former editor of Mondo 2000 joins with Douglas Lain, formerly associated with Zer0 Books, to talk about today's Cyber Dystopia and his upcoming book The Freaks in the Machine. About TIR Thank you, guys, again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and every one of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron-only programming, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH! Become a patron now: https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, especially YouTube! THANKS Y'ALL YouTube: www.youtube.com/thisisrevolutionpodcast   Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast & www.twitch.tv/leftflankvets   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/   Twitter: @TIRShowOakland  Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland The Dispatch on Zero Books (video essay series): https://youtu.be/nSTpCvIoRgw   Pascal Robert in Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/PascalRobert   Get THIS IS REVOLUTION Merch here: www.thisisrevolutionpodcast.com Get the music from the show here: https://bitterlakeoakland.bandcamp.com/ Readings Freaks in the Machine https://www.mondo2000.com/2017/08/10/from-freaks-in-the-machine-mondo-2000-in-20th-century-tech-culture/

In conversation with Hatty Nestor One of the many freedoms lost with a criminal sentence is the possibility of being seen and acknowledged on one's own terms. To be imprisoned entails losing control of one's own image, a condition that grows ever more generalised in an age of mass surveillance and algorithmic policing. In this episode of the TANK Podcast, Hatty Nestor discusses her book Ethical Portraits – out with Zer0 Books – a densely researched survey of how portraiture both interrupts and intensifies the often-invisible cruelties of our carceral society.

In conversation with Hatty Nestor One of the many freedoms lost with a criminal sentence is the possibility of being seen and acknowledged on one's own terms. To be imprisoned entails losing control of one's own image, a condition that grows ever more generalised in an age of mass surveillance and algorithmic policing. In this episode of the TANK Podcast, Hatty Nestor discusses her book Ethical Portraits – out with Zer0 Books – a densely researched survey of how portraiture both interrupts and intensifies the often-invisible cruelties of our carceral society.

We're joined by Hatty Nestor, author of Ethical Portraits: In Search of Representational Justice, published by Zer0 Books last year. Hatty talks to us about how the carceral system dehumanises the people caught in its machinery and how this is reflected visually through mugshots and courtroom drawings circulated in the media, but also through surveillance methods like facial recognition technology, forensics and DNA sampling. Ethical Portraits asks the question: ‘How can understanding the visual representation of prisoners help us confront the invisible forms of power in the American prison system?' We also discuss being half-American and how this affects all three of our worldviews, how portraits and portrayal are weaponised by a repressive surveillance state, the 'affective potential of art' and whether it can be revolutionary, Chelsea Manning, prison and police abolition, and finally how you can be both perverted and Italian at the same time. Check out Ethical Portraits and more of Hatty Nestor's writing here: https://hattynestor.com/Editorial --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message

Douglas Lain of Zer0 Books chats with us slightly youngsters about zines, indymedia, adbusters anti-globalization, anti-war, and the world this radicalism has left us with. Was it all radical liberalism or did 2008 break part of the counterculture towards a revolutionary path? For the full episode support us at Patreon.com/TheAntifada Closing song: Jimmy Buffet - Cheeserburger in Paradise

The editor of Zer0 Books and host of Zer0 Squared talks about his recent video that was too hot for Youtube. What is "the Great Reset," what does Christopher Lasch's "The Revolt of the Elites" have to say about (via Paul Sweezy and the Johnson-Forest Tendency), and how did that critique not go far enough? We also discuss Doug's sectarian background and new media strategies for the left in general. Watch the banned video: https://www.patreon.com/posts/christopher-paul-44266732 Another good convo on Lasch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1zO1SAdCRE Support the show at http://Patreon.com/TheAntifada And check out our Twitch streams on Monday, Weds, and Friday nights around 7 pm EST at Twitch.tv/TheAntifada Closing song: Brockhampton - Weight