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From 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...

To 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,...

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 o...

Nicholas 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 insigh...

To celebrate the release of The British Marxist Historians on Zer0 Books, Kyle, Will, and Adam sat down with the author Professor Harvey J. Kaye to discuss Marxist historiography, theories of class determination, class-struggle analysis, and the project of writing a history from the bottom up.  We talked peasants revolts, the role of culture in class struggle, the question of 'objectivity&apo...

An 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 Koste...

Elvia 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...

In 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 envi...

Craig from Acid Horizon interviews Neil Usher, author of the September 2022 release from Zer0 Books, Unf*cking Work: " Every journey starts with the realization that we don’t have to take any more of this crap. The world of work – and all that’s wrong with it – is dominated by 12 statements. We hear them every day. We utter them at will. But they’re all garbage. What if we said – no more? Thi...

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....

On 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 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 lands...

This 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 Fisheria...

Ben Woodard is a highly accomplished contemporary philosopher and cultural theorist who works to devise conceptions of reality beyond and productive of the human. In this episode of the Zer0 Books Archive, Adam from Acid Horizon and Kenny speak with Ben Woodard about his 2012 book Slime Dynamics: Generation, Mutation, and the Creep of Life. This book explores what Woodard terms dark vitalism and t...

Acid 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 unders...

CW: discussion of sexual assault and harassment. Dr. Joshua Moufawad-Paul is one of the key figures in philosophy involved in the Maoist revival in theory today. With six books already to his name, this interview offers a retrospective on his publications, focused on his critically acclaimed 2016 book ‘Continuity and Rupture: Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain.’ In this interview, Josh discusses wit...

Profane 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/profaneshow Support Zer0 Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooks Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooks Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0books -----...

Watch Part I here: https://youtu.be/TpGXJ1R4g8g Watch Part II here: https://youtu.be/6_logXWLs08 Watch Part III here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns-_cc0enug What 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. Tu...

Jason 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&...

On 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...

Purchase Night 2: A Philosophy of the Last World here: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/night-volume2-philosophy-last-world Also, find Night: A Philosophy of After Dark here: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/night-philosophy-after-dark Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, philosopher, translator, associate professor of comparative literature at Babson College and t...

Fredric 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 Marxis...

Watch Part I here: https://youtu.be/TpGXJ1R4g8g Watch Part II here: https://youtu.be/6_logXWLs08 What 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...

Lillian 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/zerobooks Subscribe: http:/...

In 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/zerobooks Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooks F...