With a new year, hope. This week we talk about two very different books on hope as well as our own thoughts and experiences. We start from despair, find our way to nihilism, negotiate Slavoj Žižek's The Courage of Hopelessness, to THAT Obama poster and, finally, Teaching in the Community: A Pedagogy of Hope by Bell Hooks. 

 

Plus, a voice for football fans?  

 

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The Courage of Hopelessness by Slavoj Žižek (2017) on Hive 

 

A copy of Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope by Bell Hooks (2003) 

 

L.N. Tolstoy and the Modern Labour Movement - V. I. Lenin (1910) 

 

Will Self review of The Courage of Hopelessness in The Guardian (2017) 

 

Barack Obama "Hope" poster 

 

Photo of JFK that inspired the choice of pose on the Obama "Hope" poster 

 

The Tattered Idealism of Barack Obama - David Brooks in The Atlantic (2020) 

 

Why Liverpool’s new Supporters Board can be a “game-changer” for English football - Jeff Goulding at This Is Anfield (2021)