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Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaTechnic and Magic: Politics, Neoplatonism, and the Limits of Language with Federico CampagnaFederico'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 re...
2024-05-121h 00Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaErnst Bloch's Utopian Marxism: A New Hope with Jon GreenawayBuy the Book: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/primer-utopian-philosophy-ernst-blochThe utopian project lies in ruins, but perhaps in our present moment, there are elements from the history of thought that can provide fresh resources for utopianism. In this groundbreaking introduction, Jon Greenaway explores the work of German philosopher Ernst Bloch, whose complex and challenging philosophy is a primer for a philosophical renewal of the struggle for a better world.Support Horror Vanguard:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/horror-vanguard/id1445594437Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard...
2024-04-301h 07Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaWelcome to the Collapse: Evan Calder Williams 'Combined and Uneven Apocalypse' (Zer0 Books Archive)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...
2024-04-2404 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaWORK WILL NOT SAVE YOU: Federico Campagna's 'The Last Night: Anti-Work, Atheism, Adventure'Buy the book: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/last-nightOur secular society seems to have finally found its new God: Work. As technological progress makes human labour superfluous, and over-production destroys both the economy and the planet, Work remains stronger than ever as a mantra of universal submission. This book develops a fully-fledged theory of radical atheism, advocating a disrespectful, opportunist squandering of obedience. By replacing hope and faith with adventure, The Last Night of our lives might finally become the first morning of an autonomous future.Support Zer0 Books and Repeater Media...
2024-04-0805 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaAgainst the Vortex: Zardoz and Degrowth Utopias in the Seventies and Today with Anthony GalluzzoBuy the book: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/against-vortex-zardoz-degrowth-utopiasAlongside scientific knowledge and collective effort, building a degrowth ecological society will require a different set of stories and myths than the big and fast Promethean fables we’re accustomed to. Using Boorman’s Zardoz as a tool, Against The Vortex unearths the artistic and intellectual output of a decelerationist 1970s, with an eye toward imagining a very different sort of future.Support Zer0 Books and Repeater Media on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterSubscribe: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeater...
2024-03-051h 05Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaWe're All Running from The Terminator: The Radical Left Versus CapitalismAdam of Acid Horizon dives into the work of Carl Neville to explore the Terminator series as a parable of radicalization, how struggles in the present show the future of our current predicament, and how to fight back.Books by Carl Neville:Eminent Domain (Repeater): https://repeaterbooks.com/product/eminent-domain/Classless: Recent Essays on British Film (Zer0): https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/classlessSupport Zer0 Books and Repeater Media on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterSubscribe: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterFacebook...
2024-02-1409 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaWho Was Errico Malatesta? with Davide TurcatoMany leftists today know the name of the Italian anarchist Errico Malatesta, but few know much about him. In this conversation, one of the foremost scholars on his life and ideas, Davide Turcato, discusses Malatesta’s activities during his long London exile from 1900-1913, his revolutionary theory of the armed strike, and his complicated relation to the Marxism of the second international.Buy the latest volume of Malatesta’s complete works here: https://akpress.org/complete-works-of-malatesta-vol-v.htmlThe Method of Freedom, An Errico Malatesta Reader: https://akpress.org/the-method-of-freedom.htmlSupport Zer0 Books and...
2024-02-0354 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaInterventions - "Identity Politics: The Uses and Abuses of a Term"'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
2023-12-2319 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaAnti-Oculus x We Hear Only Ourselves Live at Tenderbooks in London, UK 11.21.23Join our reading groups: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastWe Hear Only Ourselves: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/we-hear-only-ourselves-utopia-narrative-resistanceAnti-Oculus: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/anti-oculus-a-philosophy-of-escape/We celebrate the launch of We Hear Only Ourselves. Utopia, Memory, and Resistance by Bill Cashmore and Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape by Acid Horizon.We Hear Only Ourselves is a study of utopia and its contradictions. If a future beyond capitalism cannot be imagined, what is the place of utopia today? The answer, Cashmore argues, lies beyond either idle speculation or merely hopeful...
2023-12-041h 04Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaDo We Need A "Revolution from Below"?: Anton Pannekoek and Council Communism(music free version here: https://youtu.be/OqNbsO4xdxc)Is "revolution from below" an antidote to the missteps of real-existing socialisms from the past? Can council communism help us orchestrate an escape from capitalism? Do the workers need leaders or intellectuals to foster class consciousness? This video provides a thumbnail sketch of the work and ideas of Anton Pannekoek.Inspiration for this video comes from 'The Workers’ Way to Freedom and Other Council Communist Writings' by Anton Pannekoek and Edited by Robyn K. Winters: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1503Su...
2023-11-1409 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaBlockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It with Joshua DávilaBuy the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/blockchain-radicals-how-capitalism-ruined-crypto-and-how-to-fix-it/Over the last decade, blockchains and crypto have opened up a new terrain for political action. It is not surprising, however, that the crypto space has also become overrun by unscrupulous marketing, theft and scams. The problem is real, but it isn’t a new one. Capitalism has ruined crypto, but that shouldn’t be the end of it.Blockchain Radicals shows us how this has happened, and how to fix crypto in a way that is understandable for those who have never owned a cryptocurrency as well...
2023-10-291h 04Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaA How To Guide to Cosmopolitan Socialism with Matt McManusBuy the book: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/how-to-guide-cosmopolitan-socialismSocialism has always had internationalist ambitions, but what those ambitions should be and how to rethink them in the 21st century remain open questions. Before his tragic passing in 2020, Michael Brooks talked about a new kind of cosmopolitan socialism that would be appropriate for our time. A How To Guide To Cosmopolitan Socialism builds upon Brooks' vision to argue that we need a left which knows no boundaries and recognizes the fundamental moral equality of all individuals on the planet while securing the material conditions for...
2023-10-221h 03Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaNo Platform for Fascists: Tactics and History of British Antifascism w/ Evan SmithBuy Evan's book: https://www.routledge.com/No-Platform-A-History-of-Anti-Fascism-Universities-and-the-Limits-of-Free/Smith/p/book/9781138591684To commemorate the 87th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, we are joined by historian Evan Smith to discuss his history of No Platform, a tactic central to the history of British antifascism, the history of the Marxist Left in the UK, and the ongoing debates round media and the limits of free speech today. We discuss the origins of No Platforming as one of a plurality of antifascist tactics, we dispel the mythologies around critiques of the tactic taken up by elements of the...
2023-10-1555 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaDo We Need More or Less Law? David Renton's 'Against the Law'Buy the book from Repeater Books: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/against-the-law-why-justice-requires-fewer-laws-and-a-smaller-state/Should we shrink the law? One of Britain’s leading social justice barristers puts the case against the constant expansion of the law into new areas, and its greater control over more and more of our lives.Since 2016, Britain has been ruled by populists, who have promised to expand democracy and decrease the law by taking back power from abroad. Yet what these populists have actually done is institute a vast increase in new laws, made by ministers and not Parliament, regulating every aspect of...
2023-10-081h 01Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaSlashers, Serial Killers, and Deconstructing the 'Final Girl': The Graveyard Shift with Maria LewisAt 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 Zer0 Books a...
2023-10-0556 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaDavid Renton's 'Against the Law': Do We Need More or Less Law?Buy the book from Repeater Books: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/against-the-law-why-justice-requires-fewer-laws-and-a-smaller-state/Should we shrink the law? One of Britain’s leading social justice barristers puts the case against the constant expansion of the law into new areas, and its greater control over more and more of our lives.Since 2016, Britain has been ruled by populists, who have promised to expand democracy and decrease the law by taking back power from abroad. Yet what these populists have actually done is institute a vast increase in new laws, made by ministers and not Parliament, regulating every aspect of...
2023-10-0359 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaUtopia, Resistance, and the Black Panthers: We Hear Only Ourselves w/ Bill CashmoreBuy the book: https://www.amazon.com/We-Hear-Only-Ourselves-Resistance-ebook/dp/B0CFGB916MWe Hear Only Ourselves is a study of utopia and its contradictions. If a future beyond capitalism cannot be imagined, what is the place of utopia today? The answer, Cashmore argues, lies beyond either idle speculation or merely hopeful optimism. We Hear Only Ourselves seeks a concept of utopia which is strengthened, not undermined, by its contradictions. From the dialectics of the Frankfurt School to the energetics of resistance in the writings of the Black Panthers, this book draws on a wide range of thought...
2023-09-261h 04Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaAre We Narcissistic Enough? 'Narcissus in Bloom' and The History of the Selfie with Matt ColquhounBuy the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/narcissus-in-bloom/Narcissism is the defining pathology of the twenty-first century, but what if it is not self-obsession that defines us but a need for self-transformation?Narcissus in Bloom is a short history of the self-portrait, beginning with Renaissance painters like Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt and Caravaggio, through to photographers and celebrities like Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, Lee Friedlander and Hervé Guibert.Analysing the ways that so many artists have regarded their own image, how might the age of the selfie be considered as a time of...
2023-08-291h 09Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaMarx and Spinoza on the Ideology of Work Under Capitalism: Jason Read's 'The Double Shift'Coming to Verso Books February 2024: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741197/the-double-shift-by-jason-read/ABOUT THE DOUBLE SHIFT“Why do people fight for their exploitation as if it was liberation?” How Marx and Spinoza can explain our attachment to work, and what we can do about itIn a world of declining wages, working conditions, and instability, the response for many has been to work harder, increasing hours and finding various ways to hustle in a gig economy. What drives our attachment to work? To paraphrase a question from Spinoza, “Why do people fight for their exploitation as if...
2023-08-231h 03Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaCan Workers Take Back The World They Made Under Capitalism?: Dig Where You StandBuy the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/dig-where-you-stand/On the 45th anniversary of its initial publication in Swedish, Sven Lindqvist’s polemic on history, politics and power is finally available in English for the first time.This volume brings Dig Where You Stand, Sven Lindqvist’s classic text on history, power and politics, to English-speaking audiences for the first time.First published in 1978, Dig Where You Stand is a rallying cry for workers to become researchers, to follow the money, take on the role as experts on their job, and “dig” out its hidden h...
2023-08-211h 06Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaCritical Theory Goes Supernatural! Blue Light of the Screen: Horror, Ghosts, and God w/Claire CroninBuy the Book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/blue-light-of-the-screen-on-horror-ghosts-and-god/Blue Light of the Screen is about what it means to be afraid — about immersion, superstition, delusion, and the things that keep us up at night. A creative-critical memoir of the author’s obsession with the horror genre, Blue Light of the Screen embeds its criticism of horror within a larger personal story of growing up in a devoutly Catholic family, overcoming suicidal depression, uncovering intergenerational trauma, and encountering real and imagined ghosts.As Cronin writes, she positions herself as a protagonist who is haunted by wh...
2023-08-171h 04Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaDisconsolate Dreamers: The Politics of Pessimism and UtopiaBuy the book: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/disconsolate-dreamers-pessimism-utopiaOur world is increasingly sceptical of happy endings. Notions of resistance or alternatives - of hope - seem evermore ill-fated as we resign to a slow and painful descent further into capitalism. However, from a critical position, one that does not shy away from the scale of the horror facing us, we can begin to rethink utopianism, and plot new and speculative pathways for collective escape. Through quiet acts of naysaying to the world, of nihilistic or self-destructive events, or in wider-ranging renegotiations of what’s ac...
2023-08-131h 00Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaGeorges Bataille, Sustainability, and Climate Change with Stuart Kendall and Acid Horizon (Part 1)Acid Horizon Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastAnti-Oculus: https://www.amazon.com/Anti-Oculus-Acid-Horizon/dp/1915672090Zer0/Repeater Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterThe Acid Horizon crew are once again joined by Bataille scholar and translator Stuart Kendall to discuss his writings on General Economy, Waste, and Sustainability in the era of climate crisis. How is our ecologically destructive mode of production complimented by a capitalist mode of consumption? Is luxury antithetical to sustainable society? And how do we make more of waste in a world where the dominant tendencies of production aim at...
2023-08-0450 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaGeorges Bataille, Sustainability, and Climate Change with Stuart Kendall and Acid Horizon (Part 2)Acid Horizon Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastAnti-Oculus: https://www.amazon.com/Anti-Oculus-Acid-Horizon/dp/1915672090Zer0/Repeater Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterThe Acid Horizon crew are once again joined by Bataille scholar and translator Stuart Kendall to discuss his writings on General Economy, Waste, and Sustainability in the era of climate crisis. How is our ecologically destructive mode of production complimented by a capitalist mode of consumption? Is luxury antithetical to sustainable society? And how do we make more of waste in a world where the dominant tendencies of production aim at...
2023-08-0447 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaCautious, A Boat Adrift: Working Class Writing in the 21st Century with Tommy SissonsBuy the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/cautious-a-boat-adrift/As a failing journalist cares for his alcoholic grandfather, remnants of the elderly man’s long-buried stories resurface and drive him to an obsessional search for truth.“The land of men is an untouched one. It is the companionship of quiet. It is so many darkened boats, heading their own way, in the night.”Leeds, 2017. Disaffected journalist Fred Whitby and his mother visit Grandad Norman following the death of his callous second wife, Brenda. Norman has relapsed into alcoholism. Brenda’s daughter and her husband have inv...
2023-07-3156 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaLazy Politics: Lafargue, Nietzsche, and Bataille Against the GrindMilitate against the grind. 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/acidhorizonMerch: crit-drip.comThe Philosopher’s Tarot from Repeater Books: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/...
2023-07-2610 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaClass, Race, and Gender in 'Different Class: The Untold Story of English Cricket'Buy the book here: https://repeaterbooks.com/audiobooks/different-class-the-untold-story-of-english-cricket/In 1963, the West Indian Marxist C.L.R. James posed the deceptively benign question: “What do they know of cricket, who only cricket know?”A challenge to the public to re-consider cricket and its meaning, James was, all too subtly, attempting to counter the game’s elitist orthodoxy. Regrettably, he failed, and the history of cricket in England remains as it did a century ago — until now.In examining recreational rather than professional (first-class) cricket, Different Class does not merely challenge the orthodoxy of English...
2023-07-191h 00Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaProfane Illuminations: Theology for MilitantsProfane Illuminations presents “Theology for Militants”.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/acidhorizonMerch: crit-drip.comThe Philosopher’s Tarot from Repeater Books: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-phi...
2023-07-1852 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaWhat is Coöperism? with Bernard Harcourt and Acid HorizonBernard Harcourt sits down with Acid Horizon to discuss "coöperism", a theory of cooperation that encompasses various registers of social and socioeconomic interaction. From the publisher:"Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, unable to address pressing problems such as climate change. There is, however, another path—cooperation democracy. From consumer co-ops to credit unions, worker cooperatives to insurance mutuals, nonprofits to mutual aid, countless examples prove that people working together can extend the ideals of participatory democracy and sustainability into every aspect of their lives. These forms of cooperation do not depend on e...
2023-06-201h 10Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaLo-Fi Music and Escaping Capitalism: Foucault and Marx Meet Boards of Canada and Daniel JohnstonCraig from Acid Horizon sit down with Enrico Monacelli to discuss his new book, 'The Great Psychic Outdoors: Lo-Fi Music and Escaping Capitalism'.From the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-great-psychic-outdoors/Homemade records, tape-hiss worship and a taste for a very peculiar kind of psychedelia have carved themselves a weird niche in the contemporary musical landscape under the name of lo-fi.This genreless genre, characterized by poor recordings and rough sounds, spanning from the most extreme heavy metal to the sweetest ear-candies pop can offer, has become a solid presence in our collective...
2023-06-201h 03Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaWhat is "Red Enlightenment"? On Socialism, Science, and SpiritualityWhy we need a materialist spirituality for the secular left, and how to build one.The left commonly rejects religion and spirituality as counter-revolutionary forces, citing Marx’s famous dictum that “religion is the opium of the people.” Yet forms of spirituality have motivated struggles throughout history, ranging from medieval peasant uprisings and colonial slave revolts, to South American liberation theology and the US civil rights movement. And in a world where religion is growing, and political movements are ridden with conflict, burnout, and failure, what can the left learn from religion?Red Enlightenment argues not on...
2023-06-141h 01Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaCapitalism Versus the Working Class of North London: 'I Could Be So Good For You' with John MedhurstI Could Be So Good For You tackles head-on the pernicious and implicitly racist fiction that London, most especially north London, has no “real” working class in comparison to a more “authentic” working class in a place called “the North”.In doing so it offers a history and a portrait of north London’s working class from the 1950s to the 21st century, based on a wide and original range of sources including personal memoirs, autobiographies, collected oral histories and new interviews conducted by the author. The result is an important social history and a rich panorama of working-cla...
2023-06-071h 09Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaCybernetics and the Left: Communist Synergy or Capitalist Machines?Adam is joined by Dr James Fox to discuss the legacy of cybernetics and organizational theory, its Leftist critics, and the potential for a cybernetics of the commune, one which politicizes the dynamic systems of democracy at play in worker organizing. We discussed public attitudes to cyber-theory, the history of the field from Wiener to Bogdanov and Stafford Beer, and the use of machinic language from Deleuze to the CCRU.You can read all of the pieces from James we discussed today over at https://tektology.substack.com/Also: Catch James' talk on his work...
2023-05-311h 03Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaSci-Fi and the Politics of the Future: An Interview with Steven Shaviro featuring Acid HorizonAdam and Will are joined by Professor Steven Shaviro to discuss his work on the philosophy of science fiction, developing on themes from recent texts such as Extreme Fabulations and 2016's Discognition out on Repeater Books. We asked Steven about the various techniques that writers such as Frank Herbert, Adrian Tchaikovsky, and China Mieville to unearth possible futures in the present; and how they extrapolate from, speculate upon, and generate fables about dominant tendencies of our political and technological situation. We also touched upon philosophies of time and narrative such as Bergson, Deleuze, Whitehead, Foucault, Marshall McLuhan, and Darko...
2023-05-231h 10Zer0 Books and Repeater Media'Specters of Revolt': Marxism, Anarchism, and Resistance to Capitalism with Richard Gilman-OpalskyRichard Gilman-Opalsky is a professor of politics at the University of Illinois Springfield. In this episode, he joins Kenny and Kyle to discuss his 2016 book ‘Specters of Revolt: On the Intellect of Insurrection and Philosophy from Below’, as well as his more recent project. Richard’s approach is guided by French theorists associated with the Situationist movement, and draws on the vast history of revolt, from the Third Servile War to the Zapatistas, seeking to explain the prospects for resistance to capitalism today. As well as this, Richard discusses the relation between Marxism and anarchism, the limitations of utopianism, and th...
2023-05-161h 27Zer0 Books and Repeater Media'High John the Conqueror: A Novel' and Beyond: An Interview with Tariq GoddardGrab 'High John the Conqueror: A Novel' here: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/high-john-the-conqueror-a-novel/When children start going missing in a rural town, the investigation takes twists and turns into the strange world of privilege and the realm of the occult."I always wanted to be a writer, but I became a policeman instead."WESSEX, 2016. Teenagers are vanishing off the council estates of a small provincial city. A crop of herbs that are said to posses magical powers which only grow once every fifty years are found in the woods. A supernatural creature believed...
2023-05-091h 13Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaDo Communists Understand Money? Marxism and the Economics of Value w/ Colin Drumm and Acid HorizonColin Drumm is an educator and organizer at the Mimbres School, which on their Discord server is described as "dedicated to the pursuit of an intellectual life beyond the decaying ruins of the university system." He joins Acid Horizon to discuss his views on higher ed, monetary theory, value theory, and Marxism.Find Colin on Twitter: @drumm_colinTo support the Mimbres School, subscribe ($7/mo) at https://www.patreon.com/MimbresSchool.Support Zer0 Books and Repeater Media on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooksSubscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooksFacebook: https://ww...
2023-05-041h 02Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaAnarchism, Anti-Capitalism, and Marxist Heresies in 'Operaismo: History, Genealogy, Method'Gigi Roggero’s latest book Italian Operaismo: History, Genealogy, Method promises to be the strongest introduction to its difficult subject matter available in the English language. Operaismo as a moment in the history of anticapitalist struggle is a source of great hope and enthusiasm among today’s militants, not only because of the academic success of its most famous proponents (such as Mario Tronti and Toni Negri), but because of its intransigent refusals, within and against labour, the state, and capitalism.In this episode, Gigi discusses his new book with Kenny and the book’s translator, Clara Pope...
2023-04-291h 02Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaThe Capitalism of the Ego: James Hillman's Critique of the Ego Function in PsychoanalysisFor post-Jungian archetypal psychologist James Hillman, the concept of the ego familiar to the work of Freud, Jung, and other psychoanalytic thinkers maintains a almost tyrannical predominance in the tradition of psychoanalysis. The myth of Hercules looms large over the discipline and our lives writ large. For Hillman undue importance of the ego has precipitated a multitude of psychological, social, and political problems. The solution? A break with the ego's oppositionalism and a deep dive into the world of the imagination.Support Zer0 Books and Repeater Media on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooksSubscribe: http://b...
2023-04-2713 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaThe Anarchism and Philosophy of Max Stirner with Acid HorizonHere, Will and Adam from Acid Horizon engage in a discussion on a simultaneously well known and largely overlooked enigmatic figure in the history of German philosophy, idealism and its discontents, and even insurrectionary anarchism, Max Stirner. The discussion provides both an in-depth look at Stirner’s core philosophical commitments and the intellectual milieu within which and against which he toiled. What is at stake in Stirner’s The Unique and its Property? How are we to understand Stirner’s heterodoxical approach to anarchy? And, what can Stirner provide to us as we confront those apparatuses that seem to render...
2023-04-241h 11Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaMark Fisher's 'Flatline Constructs': Reading Group Wrap Up #1We speak with James from Zer0/Repeater's current reading group, which is tackling Mark Fisher's dissertation entitled 'Flatline Constructs'. With James, Acid Horizon delves into the work's several concepts and philosophical mediators that appear in the first sections of the book. Please join us for a future reading group sessions on the Zer0/Repeater Patreon account linked below!Support Zer0 Books and Repeater Media on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooksSubscribe: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0books and https://twitter.com...
2023-04-101h 05Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaAnarchism, Anti-Capitalism, and Marxist Heresies in 'Operaismo: History, Genealogy, Method'Gigi Roggero’s latest book Italian Operaismo: History, Genealogy, Method promises to be the strongest introduction to its difficult subject matter available in the English language. Operaismo as a moment in the history of anticapitalist struggle is a source of great hope and enthusiasm among today’s militants, not only because of the academic success of its most famous proponents (such as Mario Tronti and Toni Negri), but because of its intransigent refusals, within and against labour, the state, and capitalism.In this episode, Gigi discusses his new book with Kenny and the book’s translator, Clara Pope...
2023-03-261h 15Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaNotes from Below: British Marxist Autonomism with Kenny NovisNotes from Below are a British political group and journal who draw lessons from the Italian labour struggles from the 1960-70s to understand the limits of the modes of organising traditionally deployed by the militant left. Following the Italian operaistas, Notes begin their politics, not in the party or in a study replete with books on history and theory, but in the workplace. In September 2021, Notes began the Class Composition Project, whose purpose was to understand our current conjuncture better by starting with the experiences of workers in Britain who suffer its consequences and drive its d...
2023-03-031h 06Zer0 Books and Repeater Media'Radical Chains: Why Class Matters': Chris Nineham with Kenny NovisAt a time of almost unimaginable inequality, the mainstream still tries to ignore class. Radical Chains: Why Class Matters argues that denial of class is no coincidence but in fact central to the system’s survival. Exploring largely ignored histories of struggle and challenging the many myths about class today, Radical Chains puts forward the case that it is time to place class once again at the centre of emancipatory politics.Buy the book: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/radical-chains-why-class-mattersOther links:Check out the projects of some of the new co...
2023-02-241h 10Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaRepeater Books Presents 'Tonight It's A World We Bury' with Bill Peel and Dawn Ray'dTonight It’s a World We Bury explores a range of tendencies central to black metal and uncovers their potential as critiques of capitalism.Tonight It’s a World We Bury is a radical re-writing of the history and politics of black metal music.Challenging the commonly-held perception that black metal is a genre of the right — full of wannabe Vikings, Nazis, skinheads and other unsavoury characters — Tonight It’s a World We Bury looks at an array of black metal artists to re-affirm the genre as radically anticapitalist, revolutionary and left-wing.Utilizing an eclecti...
2023-02-211h 12Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaZer0 Books presents 'Fear Before the Fall' with Alexander Herbert and LaborkyleAlienation, 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 hol...
2023-02-0949 minZer0 Books and Repeater Media'Whole World in an Uproar' with Aaron J Leonard and Kenny NovisIn this interview, Kenny Novis speaks with the historian Aaron Leonard about his latest book, Whole World in an Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression 1955-1972. This book deals with the radical history of American folk music during the cold war, as well as the ways in which radical folk singers were repressed by various institutions, including not only the FBI, but also the press and radio. In their discussion, Kenny and Aaron review some of the key themes of the book, including how the nature of political music shifted across the 40s-50s, the place of famous musicians in...
2023-01-2958 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaThe Marxism of Utopia: An Introduction to Ernst Bloch with The LitCritGuyIn 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...
2023-01-231h 04Zer0 Books and Repeater Media'Deep Sniff' with Adam ZmithAdam Zmith reveals the long history of the quick rush from sniffing poppers.3, 2, 1... inhale, deep. From the Victorian infirmary and the sex clubs of the 1970s, poppers vapour has released the queer potential inside us all.This is the intriguing story of how poppers wafted out of the lab and into gay bars, corner shops, bedrooms and porn supercuts. Blending historical research with wry observation, Adam Zmith explores the cultural forces and improbable connections behind the power of poppers. What emerges is not just a history of pub raids, viral panics and pecs the size...
2023-01-1151 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaAnti-Psychiatry and Counterculture: 'Retreat' by Matthew IngramThe counterculture of the Sixties and the Seventies is remembered chiefly for music, fashion, art, feminism, computing, black power, cultural revolt and the New Left. But an until-now unexplored, yet no less important aspect — both in its core identity and in terms of its ongoing significance and impact — is its relationship with health.In this popular and illuminating cultural history of the relationship between health and the counterculture, Matthew Ingram connects the dots between the beats, yoga, meditation, psychedelics, psychoanalysis, Eastern philosophy, sex, and veganism, showing how the hippies still have a lot to teach us about our...
2022-12-121h 04Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaBaroque Sunbursts: God, Geist, and Transcendental Black Metal feat. Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix of LITVRGYWelcome to Baroque Sunbursts, a new series from Zer0/Repeater on Music, Culture, and Philosophy. For our inaugural episode Adam and Kyle are joined by Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix; Artist, philosopher, theologian, and musician most known for her seminal work with LITVRGY. Ravenna joins us to look back upon the opening salvo of her musical philosophy: 2009’s Transcendental Black Metal: A Vision of Apocalyptic Humanism. We’re going to be talking about the teeth-grinding, fist clenching experience of musical intensity, the Blast Beat and its Discontents, and how ideas spanning from Christology to Nietzsche and German Idealism have inspired her work up u...
2022-12-061h 07Zer0 Books and Repeater Media'Sick of It All' with AngryWorkers and Kenny NovisAngryWorkers are one of the most promising political collectives existing on the left in Britain today. Today, we had the chance to speak with them about their latest book, ‘Sick of it All: Work, Inquiry & Struggle in the NHS’. As a group, AngryWorkers believe in ‘getting rooted’, or entering into workplaces, becoming a part of the workforce, and engaging with the working class where they already are instead of expecting them to come to us. This led to the publication of a previous book, titled ‘Class Power on Zero Hours’ about their experiences organising in warehouses around west London. Their latest...
2022-11-2158 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaBaudrillard: The Hyperreality [or the Ecstasy] of Posting on Twitter (radio edit)"Is everything today just posting?" Subscribe to Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcPVN1v6tkHW-43IbqagHbQSupport 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.c...
2022-11-1649 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaIs Ideology Unconscious? with Kenny Novis and Gil MorejonFrom Gil's book: Three early modern philosophers - Spinoza, Leibniz and Hume - understood that minds necessarily involve ideas and patterns of thinking that are not conscious. Morejon shows that in this way they sharply distinguish themselves from other major early modern thinkers whose conceptions of the mind tended to identify thinking with consciousness, such as Descartes, Malebranche and Locke. This conception of the thinking mind as conscious remains popular even today. By contrast, Leibniz, Spinoza and Hume argue instead that thought is not, as such, a matter of consciousness.Morejon explores the significance of this insight...
2022-11-121h 09Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaCapitalist Realism: Is There Still No Alternative? with Alex NivenTo celebrate new Zer0 Classics edition of Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism, Adam and Will spoke to Alex Niven about his new introduction. Alex joins us in reflecting upon the historical context of the book in the midst of New Labour's Thatcherism, the student riots, and the global financial crisis, as well as exploring the key concepts of the book such as Market Stalinism, Depressive Hedonia, and the spectre of the Marxist Supernanny of postcapitalist desire. As Austerity and neoliberalism try to find a second wind in the midst of global crisis, we ask, how do we envision the em...
2022-11-0455 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaZer0 Classics presents 'Heavy Radicals: The FBI's Secret War on American Maoists'The history of the FBI’s involvement in quelling left-wing opposition in 20th-century America has yet to be fully documented. Aaron Leonard and Connor Gallagher are two of the foremost historians attempting to expose the true capacities of the FBI, unburdened by the conspiratorial paranoia normally surrounding this subject. In this video, Aaron Leonard and Connor Gallagher discuss the re-release of their book ‘Heavy Radicals: The FBI’s Secret War on America’s Maoists’ with Kenny Novis and Joshua Moufawad-Paul. This book serves as a detailed and well-documented reminder of the counter-revolutionary powers held by first-world governments, and includes many lesso...
2022-11-011h 03Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaMarx Fisher vs. Nick Land featuring Nicholas BlincoeNicholas Blincoe is an English author, critic and screenwriter. He is written for British radio and television including episodes for BBC TV series, In the 1990s, he attended Warwick University, where he was a mentee of Nick Land. Nicholas joins the postcapitalist desire reading group to discuss Land's "Machinic Desire" and Fisher's "Anti-Vital" while offering insight to the explosive cultural moment which coincided with the emergence of CCRU and the accelerationists.Support Zer0 Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooksSubscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooksFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/Twitter: https://t...
2022-10-1847 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaNew on Zer0 Books: The British Marxist Historians by Harvey J. KayeTo 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://t...
2022-10-101h 12Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaAn Imaginoscope for Organizers with Monika KosteraAn Imaginoscope for Organizers offers practical exercises to use both individual and collective imagination to activate and mobilize creative organizing impulses. It proposes intellectual, symbolic and poetic food for thought and practice. Each chapter is a step on the quest for creative ideas and practices and introduces a language that can be used to invent and communicate your own.Monika Kostera is titular professor in economics and in the humanities and works as Professor Ordinaria at The Jagiellonian University in Poland and she also teaches at Södertörn University in Sweden. She also works at Durham Un...
2022-10-0646 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaCommunism of the Ruins: an Interview with Jamie Allinson of Salvage CollectiveIn this interview, Kenny speaks with Jamie Allinson, co-founder with Charlotte Bence, Magpie Corvid, China Miéville, Richard Seymour and Rosie Warren of the important Salvage Collective. Salvage was formed in the context of growing discontent among members of the Socialist Workers’ Party with the organisation itself, and now publishes one of the leading journals for contemporary commentary on environmental politics and Marxism, describing themselves as being “for a communism of the ruins.” As well as this, Kenny and Jamie discuss Salvage’s latest book, ‘The Tragedy of the Worker: Towards the Proletarocene’, and Jamie’s independent work on middle eastern...
2022-10-0555 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaConver/gences: 'Death By Landscape' with Elvia WilkElvia Wilk, author of the novel Oval and the essay collection Death by Landscape joins us in this interview to discuss her latest book with Kenny Novis. This book, Death by Landscape, answers questions as diverse as ‘how should we orient our lives in a time of climate catastrophe?’, ‘what can steampunk tell us about utopia?’ and ‘what can LARPing teach lovers about consent?’, to name but a few. In this interview, Elvia and Kenny discuss the book’s key themes, especially Elvia’s focus on mysticism, utopianism and environmentalism. Buy Death by Landscape here: https://softskull.com/dd-product/de...
2022-10-0556 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaUnf*cking Work with Neil UsherCraig 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 conside...
2022-09-2453 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaLyotard or Marx? The Evil Legacy of 'Libidinal Economy'Acid Horizon hosts Cooper and Taylor of Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour to discuss Jean-François Lyotard's Libidinal Economy, the infamous forceful poetic intervention which lambasted the French communism of the 1970s and the legacy of Marxism itself. This deep dive emerges out of Zer0's postcapitalist desire reading group which covers the incomplete final lecture series of Mark Fisher. Lyotard was an important mediator in Fisher's work and a pivotal figure in the accelerationist politics more broadly.Support Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour: patreon.com/muhhThe Wicked Lyotard series on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/w...
2022-09-191h 27Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaConver/gences: The God Who Riots with Damon GarciaOn this episode of Convergences: Jon, Kyle and Adam are joined by Liberation Theologian and Video Essayist Damon Garcia to talk about his new book 'The God Who Riots: Taking Back the Radical Jesus'. Damon takes us through the history of liberation theology arising from the class struggles in South America in the mid 20th century, detailing the intersections between dissident elements in the church and Marxist revolutionary militants in places such as Nicaragua, Brazil, and Cuba. We discussed the commonalities between socialist and Christian thought, how to read Jesus as a political tactician and organizer against the Roman...
2022-09-1455 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaRay Brassier on Herbert Marcuse's '5 Lectures' with Acid HorizonThe Acid Horizon crew are joined by Ray Brassier to discuss the new edition of Marcuse's 5 Lectures, out on Repeater Books as 'Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia', which he wrote the introduction for. We discuss Marcuse's influence on accelerationism, his historical materialist take on Freudian psychoanalysis, and the function of repression and enjoyment in a capitalist landscape where scarcity appears increasingly artificial in light of technological and cybernetic advances in production.Purchase '5 Lectures: Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia' on Repeater Books: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/psychoanalysis-politics-and-utopia-five-lectures/Support Zer0 Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooks
2022-09-111h 12Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaZer0 Classics: Mark Fisher's 'Ghosts of My Life' with Simon ReynoldsThis week, Adam and Kyle take us through the new Zer0 Classics edition of Mark Fisher's Ghosts of My Life with legendary music critic and hauntological blogosphere stalwart Simon Reynolds. Author of Retromania, Energy Flash, and the Afterword to this new edition! We discussed hauntology, popular modernism, lost futures, the state of contemporary music, and Jungle, as he takes us on a Fisherian tour through the Zer0 Books Archive.Support Zer0 Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooksSubscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooksFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/Twitter: https://twitter.com...
2022-08-2755 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaZer0 Books Archive: Slime Dynamics with Ben WoodardBen 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.
2022-08-1954 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaFoucault and Praxis: On Genealogical Method and Abolition with Bernard HarcourtAcid Horizon hosts Bernard Harcourt, a distinguished critical theorist, legal advocate, and prolific writer and editor. Bernard joins the cast to discuss the legacy of Foucault's work, its emergence within its historical milieu, and the practical implications it offers. Bernard also offers a concise explanation of what is meant by Foucault's genealogical method and how we can best understand the normative aspects implicit in Foucault research.Bernard's links:Critique and Praxis: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/critique-and-praxis/9780231195720“On Critical Genealogy”: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=414766813/13 Seminars: https://cccc...
2022-08-1346 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaZer0 Books Archive: Continuity and Rupture with J. Moufawad-Paul and Kenny NovisCW: 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 hara...
2022-08-071h 02Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaProfane Illuminations: RevolutionProfane Illuminations is a Gothic Marxist show about seeking the material circumstances of our shared situation. Hosted by @thelitcritguy and @laborkyle.Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/profaneshowSupport 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 Philosopher’s Tarot from Repeater Books (mentioned in the episode): https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717040/the-philosophers-tarot-by-sereptie/9781914420917?ref=PRHB7BD76FBDB&aid=14813&linkid=PRHB7BD76FBDB
2022-07-3041 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaThe Future of the Lacanian Left with Daniel Tutt and Gabriel Tupinambá: Part 4Watch Part I here: https://youtu.be/TpGXJ1R4g8gWatch Part II here: https://youtu.be/6_logXWLs08Watch Part III here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns-_cc0enugWhat was the Lacanian left and what is its future? A long-distance conversation held over Whatsapp audio messages while driving, out walking or cooking dinner over the course of several months between Daniel Tutt and Gabriel Tupinambá. Tupinambá is the author of The Desire of Psychoanalysis: Exercises in Lacanian Theory and Tutt is the author of Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family. St...
2022-07-1748 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaThe Violent Origins of Capital - Acid Horizon with Jason ReadJason Read joins Acid Horizon to discuss his recently released title, 'The Production of Subjectivity: Marx and Philosophy'. The discussion centers around Marx's notion of 'so-called primitive accumulation' or 'original accumulation'. Using Althusser, Deleuze and Guattari, and Balibar, Jason takes up the idea of the 'multiple logics' which inhabit Marx's work from his discussion of the commodity, the notion of exploitation, and so-called primitive accumulation. Moreover, the discussion covers the concept of 'immanent causality' as the idea which can explain the broader complexity and multiple contradictions of capitalism.Jason Read, 'The Production of Subjectivity: Marx and Philosophy...
2022-07-121h 02Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaConver/gences: 'The German Ideology: A New Abridgement' with Tom WhymanOn this episode of Conver/gences, Will and Adam speak with Tom Whyman, author of The German Ideology: A New Abridgement, available on Repeater Books. The new abridgment revisits Marx and Engels' controversial and often misunderstood text, offering an impetus to rethink the tenets of Marxist theory against ensuing efforts to achieve communism around the world.Purchase The German Ideology: A New Abridgement here: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-german-ideology-a-new-abridgement/Support Zer0 Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooksSubscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooksFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/Twitter: https://t...
2022-07-0944 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaComing Soon to Zer0 Books: Night 2Purchase 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 t...
2022-07-051h 04Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaPleasure: A Political Issue (Jameson and Psychoanalysis) with Daniel Tutt and Anna KornbluhFredric Jameson is one of the most important Marxist literary critics. We are joined by Anna Kornbluh to discuss his theory of postmodernism and particularly his work on psychoanalysis and Marxism. We analyze Jameson's incredible essay "Pleasure: A Political Issue" which looks at the relationship between psychoanalysis and Marxism. This conversation gets at the heart of the Marxism-psychoanalysis relationship, what the stakes are, what psychoanalysis offers to Marxist analysis and more. Anna Kornbluh's research and teaching interests center on Victorian literature and Critical Theory, with a special emphasis in formalism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, and theory of the novel. Sh...
2022-07-021h 22Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaThe Future of the Lacanian Left with Daniel Tutt and Gabriel Tupinambá: Part 3Watch Part I here: https://youtu.be/TpGXJ1R4g8gWatch Part II here: https://youtu.be/6_logXWLs08What was the Lacanian left and what is its future? A long-distance conversation held over Whatsapp audio messages while driving, out walking or cooking dinner over the course of several months between Daniel Tutt and Gabriel Tupinambá. Tupinambá is the author of The Desire of Psychoanalysis: Exercises in Lacanian Theory and Tutt is the author of Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family. Stay tuned for new installments.Support Zer0 Books on Patreon: https://www.pa...
2022-07-0231 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaWhy Class Matters: Daniel Tutt and Lillian CicerchiaLillian Cicerchia, co-host of What's Left of Philosophy wrote an essay "Why Does Class Matter" which was the first article about class (specifically) in academic philosophy in several decades. We discuss her theories on class with a focus on the theme of "non-domination" in the labor market.Support Zer0 Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooksSubscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooksFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0booksSupport Daniel Tutt's work by visiting the Torsion Groups Patreon account: https://patreon.com/torsiongroups-----
2022-06-171h 19Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaIn Conversation with Decolonial Psychoanalysis: Robert Beshara and Fernanda MagallanesIn this dialogue, Robert Beshara and Fernanda Magallanes discuss their books Decolonial Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalysis, The Body, and the Oedipal Plot, respectively. The aim of the conversation is to imagine a worldly psychoanalysis from the perspective of the Global South: Egypt and Mexico.Support Zer0 Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooksSubscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooksFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0booksLink to Robert's book: https://www.routledge.com/Decolonial-Psychoanalysis-Towards-Critical-Islamophobia-Studies/Beshara/p/book/9780367174132Link to Fernanda's book: https://www.routledge.com...
2022-06-111h 03Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaBataille: Nietzsche or Communism? An Interview with Stuart Kendall and Acid HorizonMembers and friends of Acid Horizon meet with Stuart Kendall to discuss the work of 20th century writer Georges Bataille. Bataille is a unique figure in French thought whose work spans various milieus from literature to politics. As an opponent of fascism, liberalism, and the real-existing communism of his day, he and his associates endeavored to found a new politics which drew together disparate threads from French anthropology, mythological studies, and the work of Friedrich Nietzsche. The discussion with Kendall centers upon Bataille’s use of Nietzsche as a primary theoretical mediator. Kendall also details Bataille’s relationship with Alber...
2022-05-221h 27Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaThe Future of the Lacanian Left with Daniel Tutt and Gabriel TupinambáWhat was the Lacanian left and what is its future? A long-distance conversation held over Whatsapp audio messages while driving, out walking or cooking dinner over the course of several months between Daniel Tutt and Gabriel Tupinambá. Tupinambá is the author of The Desire of Psychoanalysis: Exercises in Lacanian Theory and Tutt is the author of Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family. Stay tuned for new installments.Support Zer0 Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooksSubscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooksFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0bo...
2022-05-1721 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaConver/gences: What Happened to the Communal, Revolutionary Spirit? with Gareth WatkinsBeyond reflexive impotence and mental anguish, how do we find each other as comrades and begin the process of collective healing that rekindles the revolutionary spirit? This is the question Gareth Watkins invites us to consider, as Adam, Will, and Corey discuss his article "What Happened to the Communal Revolutionary Spirit?", focusing on the politics of friendship, misery, and collectivity through the work of The Invisible Committee and their 2007 manifesto. We discuss their work as advocating a sincere, intense, and anarchic form of communizing practice, through their theory of the communal, and the immediate possibilities of forming new kinds...
2022-05-1043 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaThe Lacanian Left, Self-Help, and the Family feat. Richard SeymourDaniel Tutt sits down with the prolific writer and thinker Richard Seymour, Co-Founder of Salvage Magazine and author of The Meaning of David Cameron (2010), Unhitched (2013), Against Austerity (2014) and Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics (2016). Since 2016, Seymour has turned to Lacanian theory in his writing and analysis of contemporary politics. We discuss what he finds valuable in psychoanalytic theory, the recent fractures over the trans movement in the Lacanian field, the patriarchy question, Oedipal politics, family abolition, meritocracy and Richard's next book project The Little Red Self-Help Book. We conclude with a discussion on the future of t...
2022-04-161h 35Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaCreepiness and Awkwardness in Neoliberal MediaIn this episode of Zer0 Books Archives, Craig of Acid Horizon is joined by Adam Kotsko to discuss his oeuvre on uncomfortable feelings both as they are felt and operationalized under neoliberal hegemony. Adam's most recent work on the subject can be found in his book 'Creepiness' (Zer0 books, 2015), but the discussion traverses both a broad and nuanced phenomenology elaborated throughout his other works.Adam's professional site: https://adamkotsko.com/'Neoliberalism's Demons' by Adam Kotsko: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29538Buy 'Creepiness': https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/Creepiness
2022-04-1443 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaThe K-Files: Mark Fisher's 'Terminator Versus Avatar'On this episode, the buddies revisit Fisher's blogpost "Terminator Versus Avatar" and explore its extended implications for the contemporary.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...YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/acidhorizonMerch: crit-drip.com...
2022-04-091h 29Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaMyths in Crisis: Prometheus, Gaia, and MarxismLandon Frim and Harrison Fluss are joined by interviewer Daniel Tutt to discuss how philosophers are thinking the ecological crisis. Fluss and Frim argue the two dominant strains of thinking ecology today, Accelerationism and Gaian philosophies are ultimately inadequate frameworks because they reject the human frame as grounding politics; each seeks to subordinate the human in favor of a wholly alien other, either in the form of an anarchic nature or a dynamic technology. To transcend this strange coincidence of opposites, Fluss and Frim make the positive case for a Marxist humanism that is rationalist without being anthropocentric. This...
2022-03-281h 33Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaConver/gences: Cedric Robinson, Black Marxism, and the Black Radical TraditionOn this episode of Convergences Adam from Acid Horizon is joined by Palestine Action activist and researcher Kieron Turner to discuss the work of Cedric Robinson and his landmark 1983 work Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. We’re going to be covering Robinson’s life and work, his dialectical analysis of the historical and ideological phenomenon of Racial Capitalism, his critique of Marxist Historiography, and the life and history of the Black Radical Tradition. Also discussed is Robinson’s critique of the Eurocentric biases of certain Western Radicalisms, the critique of nationalist ideology, and his exposition of the...
2022-03-201h 00Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaThe K-Files: Have You Been Enjoying Yourself?The buddies step away from the CCRU this episode (though maybe not too far) and turn their attention to Mark Fisher's take on Stanley K.'s last film, Eyes Wide Shut. We'll be discussing ritual, eroticism, conspiracism, and the dreary spectacle of Powerblog post: https://egressac.wordpress.com/2004/0...Support Zer0 Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooksSubscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooksFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0booksSupport Zer0 Books and Repeater Media on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com...
2022-03-091h 18Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaThe K-Files: Who's Pulling Your Strings? featuring Amy IrelandThe Buddies convene for a discussion with Amy Ireland.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...
2022-02-281h 43Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaProfane Illuminations: UtopiaProfane Illuminations is:@profaneshow @laborkyle@thelitcritguy SUGGESTED READINGGenesis 2:8 - 3:24Thomas More, Utopia CLR James, The Black Jacobins Kristin Ross, Communal LuxuryWalter Benjamin, The Arcades Project Fredriech Engels, Socialism, Utopian and Scientific William Morris, News from Nowhere Gerald Winstanley, A Declaration From the Poor Oppressed People of England Ernst Bloch, The Spirit of Utopia Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism Music: Axletree - Drops of Melting Snow (after Holst) used under a Creative Commons licence. Other music by la...
2022-02-2745 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaA Failure of Vision': Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism' by Doug GreeeInterviewer Daniel Tutt speaks with author Doug Greene about his upcoming book.Should socialists cooperate with the Democratic Party? What does the ideas and vision of the founder of the largest socialist organization in America, the DSA, inform the "common sense" of America's contemporary left?Support Zer0 Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooksSubscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooksFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0books---Doug's links:Doug's Patreon: "I Read It So You Don't Have To!" https...
2022-02-191h 27Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaThe K-Files presents 'Robin Mackay: A CCRU Retrospective'This week, we continue our exploration of the work of Mark Fisher with an extensive interview with his friend and collaborator Robin Mackay.Last week, we dipped our collective toe into the blogosphere of the mid-2000s, discussing hyperstition, 70s pulp sci-fi and some of Fisher's most enduring weird and eerie interests. Lurking in the background was Fisher's role as a member of the Ccru, and who better to discuss this period of activity with than Robin Mackay.Mackay is a philosopher, translator and director of the hugely influential publishing house https://urbanomic.com. He...
2022-02-141h 43Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaZer0 Books Archives - Semiotext(e), Lotringer, and the Early Zer0 Blogosphere with Owen HatherleyA 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://w...
2022-02-0653 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaZer0 Books Archive: Babbling Corpse with Grafton TannerOn 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 i...
2022-01-301h 06Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaThe K-Files: Astrolithic MegapunkLast 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...
2022-01-231h 21Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaZer0 Books Archives - 'The Productive Body' with Philip Barnard and Stephen ShapiroOn 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, producin...
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Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaZer0 Books Archives - 'All Things Are Nothing To Me: The Unique Philosophy of Max Stirner'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 Firs...
2022-01-1157 min
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Challenge Rating: Zer0Session Zer0: An IntroductionWelcome to Challenge Rating Zer0, a biweekly jaunt into a world of fantasy and adventure. In this intro we have our "session zero", where we introduce the world, the characters, and our players.
2019-06-2524 minzer0 's corner#007 - "papercut"bueno...mas vale tarde qe nunca...finalmente me hice un agujero y termine con el episodio #007..por su pollo qe hay un par de boludeces de james bond, de hecho no solo hablo de la movie sino qe ademas esta como OST durante el podcast varios temas de distintas de sus peliculas, tiene una intro remixada asi media techno muy piola y cierro con goldeneye de tina turner :Oporqe el titulo...simple...papercut es algo asi como una cortada a causa del papel, y eso suele ocurrir con el origami...y ya qe hablamos dela UMPC (q1) de...
2006-05-0900 minzer0 's corner#002 - "back to school"bueno aca les dejo el episodio #002 de zer0's podcasts, obviamente mas boludeces, pero bueno, ahora con un poqito mejor calidad un lindo tema para el final y una intro de aqellas :Ppara los qe aun no saben, con el iconito naranja pueden subscribirse y para los qe no qieren tanta tech simplemente clickean en el titulo del post y ahi ya tienen para bajarse el mp3 ;)espero qe les guste voy a ver si lo puedo hacer mas seguido y mas interesante :Psee you soon: zer0PS: listo ya esta...
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