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Capitalism ’
Nov 29th, 2018 |
By Douglas Lain
This week’s podcasts features a conversation with Benjamin Reynolds, whose book The Coming Revolution was published last June by Zero Books. We discuss Fully Automated Luxury Gay Communism, value theory, labor vouchers, and socialism as a political project. If you’re a fan of this podcast you should consider becoming a patron of the cast through
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Tags: Accelerationism, Activism, Automation, Benjamin Reynolds, Capitalism, communism, Critical Theory, Fully Automated Gay Luxury Space Communism, Gentrification, Marxism, revolution, technology, The Coming Revolution, value theory, Zero Books
Oct 4th, 2018 |
By Douglas Lain
Amir of Cold Dark Stars joins C Derick Varn to discuss the over-complexity of capitalism, planning, and understanding dynamic systems. Amir is a Ph.D. student in theoretical astrophysics trying to resist the tyranny of over-specialization. Cold Dark Stars is his notebook for exploring issues concerning society, philosophy of science, and capitalism, from a Left perspective
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Tags: Amir, Capitalism, Cold Dark Stars, Critical Thinking, Karl Marx, Knowledge Problem, Marxism, Scientific Socialism, Symptomatic Redness
Sep 6th, 2018 |
By Douglas Lain
Virgil Texas and Matt Christman are two of the five co-hosts from the hugely popular leftist podcast Chapo Trap House and they stopped by the Zero Books podcast this week to discuss their new book The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts and Reason. Like Chapo, Zero Books has a Patreon. Unlike
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Tags: Capitalism, Chapo, Chapo Trap House, DSA, Guide to Revolution, Late Capitalism, leftism, Leftist, Marxism, Matt Christman, socialism, Virgil Texas
May 3rd, 2017 |
By Douglas Lain
Moishe Postone is a Western Marxist and a Professor of History at the University of Chicago and he is the author of the book Time, Labor and Social Domination a book that won the American Sociological Association’s prize in the theory. In this episode of Zero Squared, Postone discusses whether the working class is the
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Tags: Capitalism, dialectics, History, identity politics, moishe postone, revolutionary subject, subject of history
Jan 28th, 2017 |
By Douglas Lain
This week’s Inside Zero Books podcast is an episode of Symptomatic Redness. Amogh Saru is in conversation with historian and philosopher Philip Mirowski. Philip Mirowski is a professor at the University of Notre Dame and author of Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown . Zero Books has
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Tags: Capitalism, Economics, History, Neoliberalism, Philip Mirowski
Jan 11th, 2017 |
By Douglas Lain
Slavoj Žižek is the guest this week as we discuss the flak he’s received for a few of his Lacanian interventions into politics recently, Marx’s Labor Theory of Value, and his most current book Against the Double Blackmail. “[A]n urgent and entertaining diagnosis of the ongoing refugee crisis and global terror threat, highlighting the glaring
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Tags: Against the Double Blackmail, Capitalism, Clinton, Labor Theory of Value, LGBTQ, Marxism, proto-fascism, Slavoj Žižek, Transgender, Trump, Zizek
Nov 23rd, 2016 |
By Douglas Lain
Angela Nagle is a writer based in Ireland. Her work has appeared in the Irish Times, the Dublin Review of Books, and the Atlantic. Her article “The New Man of 4Chan” for the Baffler was the basis for a book coming out from Zero Books next year tentatively titled “Kill All Normies: The online culture
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Tags: 4chan, Angela Nagle, Capitalism, culture wars, identity politics, Trump, Trumpism, tumblr, white nationalist
Oct 21st, 2016 |
By Douglas Lain
This episode of the Inside Zero Books podcast is being made available to all listeners to the Zero Books feed in order to tempt you into joining the Zero Books Club. It features a conversation between Douglas Lain (the publisher of Zero Books) and his eldest son Benjamin on the topic of Benjamin’s class “Culture,
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Tags: Capitalism, culture, Marx, polanyi, university of oregon
Aug 11th, 2016 |
By Douglas Lain
Glenn Loury is the guest this week as we discuss black anger, white victims of police violence, and the ins and outs of structural racism. Loury is a former conservative who became a man of the left in the 90s. He has a predisposition to go slow and a strong inclination to favor reform over
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Tags: Black Anger, black lives matter, Capital Volume 1, Capitalism, Cornell West, Glenn Loury, Glenn Show, Inequality, Marx, Michael Eric Dyson, Police Violence, Racism, structural racism, White Privilege
Jun 2nd, 2016 |
By Douglas Lain
Our Cairo correspondent and Zero Books Reader C Derick Varn is the guest this week as we follow up on an episode of the Alpha to Omega podcast with a conversation about overcoming capitalism. In the Alpha to Omega podcast there was, what I consider to be, a failure of communication as Varn tried to
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Tags: adorno, Capitalism, negation of the negation, Varn