Zer0 Books and Repeater Media

Zer0 Books and Repeater Media episodes:

• 06.23.2024

  Now That's What I Call Marxism! Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Music w/ Toby Manning

  Buy the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/mixing-pop-and-politics-a-marxist-history-of-popular-music/ A radical history of the political and social upheavals of the last 70 years, told through the period’s most popular music. Mixing Pop and Politics is not a history of political music, but a political history of popular...

  
• 06.10.2024

  The Searchers: Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain, and Their Many Enemies

  Buy the book: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/313576/the-searchers-by-beckett-andy/9780241394229 From the acclaimed author of Promised You a Miracle and When the Lights Went Out, the untold story of British politics in modern times, through the triumphs and disasters of its five most radical figures 'A breath of...

  
• 05.28.2024

  A Thousand Little Machines: Berardi and A/traverso with Kenny Novis, Jamila Squire and Seth Wheeler

  The book: https://agitpress.net/books/p/a-thousand-little-machines Digitised copies of A/traverso: https://archive.leftove.rs/documents/grid/title/A/traverso In 1977 youth revolts spectacular in their intensity, creativity and violence would send shockwaves throughout Italian society. These rebellions, belonging to the autonomia movement, were characterised by a mass refusal of wage-labour and powered...

  
• 05.12.2024

  Technic and Magic: Politics, Neoplatonism, and the Limits of Language with Federico Campagna

  Federico's 'The Last Night' on Zer0 Books: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/last-night Technic 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,...

  
• 05.05.2024

  QUIT EVERYTHING with Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Acid Horizon, and Kenny Novis

  Pre-Order Here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/761928/quit-everything-by-franco-berardi/ In Quit Everything, Franco Berardi argues that this "depression" is actually conscious or unconscious withdrawal of psychological energy and a dis-investment of desire that he defines instead as "desertion". A desertion from political participation, from the daily grind...

  
• 04.30.2024

  Ernst Bloch's Utopian Marxism: A New Hope with Jon Greenaway

  Buy the Book: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/primer-utopian-philosophy-ernst-bloch The 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...

  
• 04.24.2024

  Welcome 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-apocalypse From 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...

  
• 04.08.2024

  WORK 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-night Our 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...

  
• 03.19.2024

  The Anti-Capitalism of the Underworld: James Hillman, Mark Fisher, and Fulcanelli with Andy Sharp

  Buy the books mentioned in the discussion:  The English Heretic Collection: Ritual Histories, Magickal Geography: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-english-heretic-collection-ritual-histories-magickal-geography/ The Astral Geographic: The Watkins Guide to the Occult World: https://watkinspublishing.com/books/the-astral-geographic-the-watkins-guide-to-the-occult-world/:  Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/anti-oculus-a-philosophy-of-escape/ Craig from Acid Horizon sits down with fellow Repeater author Andy...

  
• 03.11.2024

  Lacan, Genre, and the Enjoyment of Music with David Burke and Acid Horizon

  Absent Signifier (David's free metal band): https://www.instagram.com/absentsignifierband?igsh=ZzhvbWpvczg5aWkw Can Lacanian theory explain our enjoyment of musical genres? Adam and Craig of Acid Horizon sit down with musicologist David Burke to discuss what makes metal phallic, why dance music is akin to the...

  
• 03.05.2024

  Against the Vortex: Zardoz and Degrowth Utopias in the Seventies and Today with Anthony Galluzzo

  Buy the book: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/against-vortex-zardoz-degrowth-utopias Alongside 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...

  
• 02.14.2024

  We're All Running from The Terminator: The Radical Left Versus Capitalism

  Adam 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...

  
• 02.03.2024

  Who Was Errico Malatesta? with Davide Turcato

  Many 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...

  
• 01.23.2024

  Wales, Colonialism, and the Landscape of History: "Of Talons and Teeth" w/Niall Griffiths

  Buy the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/of-talons-and-teeth-a-novel/ February 2024 event with Niall: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/niall-griffiths-of-talons-and-teeth-tickets-804928511847?aff=ebdsoporgprofile An historical novel set Wales before the Industrial Revolution, as human love tries to flower amidst squalor and serfdom.   Wales, a mining village, pre-industrial revolution. A world of serfdom and squalor, its inhabitants...

  
• 01.15.2024

  'How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche' with Daniel Tutt

  Buy the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/how-to-read-like-a-parasite-why-the-left-got-high-on-nietzsche/ ''Exemplary… Tutt’s evaluation of the consequences of Nietzschean politics is more lucid than Left Nietzscheans might wish.'' — Ray Brassier, author of Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction How to Read Like a Parasite overturns the whitewashed and defanged...

  
• 01.08.2024

  Who Was Wilhelm Reich? The Theory and Practice of Reichian Therapy with Dan Lowe and Acid Horizon

  Acid Horizon is joined by Dan Lowe, a London-based therapist and counselor trained in Reichian therapy to discuss the work of Wilhelm Reich. In focus is Reich's concept of emotional armoring, the scientific basis of Reich's work, and legacy of...

  
• 12.23.2023

  Interventions - "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...

  
• 12.03.2023

  Is Social Media Capitalism's Postmodern Pleasure Trap? 'Filling the Void' w/ Marcus Gilroy-Ware

  Buy the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/filling-the-void-emotion-capitalism-and-social-media/ It argues that social media use is often a psychological response to the need for pleasure and comfort that results from the stresses of life under postmodern capitalism, rather than being a driver of new behaviours as...

  
• 12.03.2023

  Anti-Oculus x We Hear Only Ourselves Live at Tenderbooks in London, UK 11.21.23

  Join our reading groups: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast We Hear Only Ourselves: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/we-hear-only-ourselves-utopia-narrative-resistance Anti-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...

  
• 11.22.2023

  Beyond the Politics of the Rural and Urban Divide: Vron Ware's 'Return of a Native'

  Buy ' Return of a Native': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/return-of-a-native-learning-from-the-land/ The English countryside is often seen as timeless, remote and shielded from the harshest problems of modern life. Yet, as Return of a Native reveals, it is to rural England that we must look...

  
• 11.14.2023

  Do 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?...

  
• 11.09.2023

  What is 'Collapse Feminism"? with Alice Cappelle

  Buy the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/collapse-feminism/ Alice's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AliceCappelle We’re doomed. We hear this phrase more and more frequently. Collapse has become the framework through which we write, debate, theorise, and therefore make society. In such times of crisis, women are more likely to see...

  
• 10.29.2023

  Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It with Joshua Dávila

  Buy 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...

  
• 10.22.2023

  A How To Guide to Cosmopolitan Socialism with Matt McManus

  Buy the book: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/how-to-guide-cosmopolitan-socialism Socialism 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...

  
• 10.15.2023

  No Platform for Fascists: Tactics and History of British Antifascism w/ Evan Smith

  Buy Evan's book: https://www.routledge.com/No-Platform-A-History-of-Anti-Fascism-Universities-and-the-Limits-of-Free/Smith/p/book/9781138591684 To 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...

  
• 10.08.2023

  Do 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...

  
• 10.05.2023

  Slashers, Serial Killers, and Deconstructing the 'Final Girl': The Graveyard Shift with Maria Lewis

  At 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...

  
• 09.26.2023

  Utopia, Resistance, and the Black Panthers: We Hear Only Ourselves w/ Bill Cashmore

  Buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/We-Hear-Only-Ourselves-Resistance-ebook/dp/B0CFGB916M 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...

  
• 08.29.2023

  Are We Narcissistic Enough? 'Narcissus in Bloom' and The History of the Selfie with Matt Colquhoun

  Buy 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...

  
• 08.23.2023

  Marx 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 it In a world...

  
• 08.21.2023

  Can Workers Take Back The World They Made Under Capitalism?: Dig Where You Stand

  Buy 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...

  
• 08.17.2023

  Critical Theory Goes Supernatural! Blue Light of the Screen: Horror, Ghosts, and God w/Claire Cronin

  Buy 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,...

  
• 08.13.2023

  Disconsolate Dreamers: The Politics of Pessimism and Utopia

  Buy the book: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/disconsolate-dreamers-pessimism-utopia Our 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,...

  
• 08.04.2023

  Georges Bataille, Sustainability, and Climate Change with Stuart Kendall and Acid Horizon (Part 1)

  Acid Horizon Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Anti-Oculus: https://www.amazon.com/Anti-Oculus-Acid-Horizon/dp/1915672090 Zer0/Repeater Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeater The 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...

  
• 08.04.2023

  Georges Bataille, Sustainability, and Climate Change with Stuart Kendall and Acid Horizon (Part 2)

  Acid Horizon Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Anti-Oculus: https://www.amazon.com/Anti-Oculus-Acid-Horizon/dp/1915672090 Zer0/Repeater Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeater The 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...

  
• 07.31.2023

  Cautious, A Boat Adrift: Working Class Writing in the 21st Century with Tommy Sissons

  Buy 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...

  
• 07.25.2023

  Lazy Politics: Lafargue, Nietzsche, and Bataille Against the Grind

  Militate against the grind.  Support Zer0 Books  and Repeater Media on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooks Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooks Facebook: 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 Horizon Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/acidhorizon Merch: crit-drip.com The Philosopher’s Tarot from Repeater Books: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/ The Horror Vanguard Apple...

  
• 07.19.2023

  Class, 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...

  
• 07.18.2023

  Profane Illuminations: Theology for Militants

  Profane Illuminations presents “Theology for Militants”. Support Zer0 Books  and Repeater Media on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooks Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooks Facebook: 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 Horizon Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/acidhorizon Merch: crit-drip.com The Philosopher’s Tarot from Repeater Books: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/ The...

  
• 06.20.2023

  What is Coöperism? with Bernard Harcourt and Acid Horizon

  Bernard 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...

  
• 06.20.2023

  Lo-Fi Music and Escaping Capitalism: Foucault and Marx Meet Boards of Canada and Daniel Johnston

  Craig 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...

  
• 06.14.2023

  What is "Red Enlightenment"? On Socialism, Science, and Spirituality

  Why 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...

  
• 06.07.2023

  Capitalism Versus the Working Class of North London: 'I Could Be So Good For You' with John Medhurst

  I 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...

  
• 05.31.2023

  Cybernetics 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...

  
• 05.23.2023

  Sci-Fi and the Politics of the Future: An Interview with Steven Shaviro featuring Acid Horizon

  Adam 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...

  
• 05.16.2023

  'Specters of Revolt': Marxism, Anarchism, and Resistance to Capitalism with Richard Gilman-Opalsky

  Richard 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...

  
• 05.09.2023

  'High John the Conqueror: A Novel' and Beyond: An Interview with Tariq Goddard

  Grab '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...

  
• 05.04.2023

  Do Communists Understand Money? Marxism and the Economics of Value w/ Colin Drumm and Acid Horizon

  Colin 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...

  
• 04.29.2023

  Anarchism, 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...

  
• 04.27.2023

  The Capitalism of the Ego: James Hillman's Critique of the Ego Function in Psychoanalysis

  For 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...