/lit/ - Literature

>called 0 book
>have at least 1 book

>>12292491
None of their publications qualify as "books," so their name is accurate.

ITT we pretend to be Zero books published writers

Hello everyone and welcome to my AMA! My name is Rosi Sengupta Haile-Yohannes and I'm the author of Being Queer, Queer Being: Toward a Radical Hauntology of Gender. I've written articles and op-eds for The Guardian, Jacobin, and AIDS Cum magazine, and I'm now working on my second book about dividual subjectivities in the films of Hayao Miyazaki, as it pertains to late capitalism. Ask me anything!

The cover designer for that Lenin book really worked above his pay rate

>>12292504
>>12292523
>>12292527
SEETHING rightoids

Do you take any offense except ideological?
It's cheap small paperbacks on more contemporary more academic-angle topics. I take no offense and read 3.

>>12292523
Either you were rejected by one of their agents or you made the mistake of purchasing one of their books and are fueled by the anger.
Either way, spot on post. Absolutely blood-chilling to think how you are unable to tell the difference between this shitpost and the real thing.

>>12292543
I would be embarrassed to cite any of these titles in an academic work. Most academics are admittedly shameless, so they probably would feel differently.

>>12292582
I'm a physicist so "liking" isn't so much the concern when I cite something, but also here I don't see why the literary value of what you cite would reflect on you so that it can be embarrassing.

It’s the Antifa publisher

Zero Books tanked when the founding editorial staff left to start Repeater Books and gave Zero over to new editors. Many of the best-liked Zero books come from that earlier period: Thacker, Fisher, etc.

>>12292650
Antifa uses zines

>>12292491
fpbp

>>12292650
Everyone is anti-fascist

>>12292484
What exactly is wrong with this, beyond
>omg it's lenin I'm so triggered right now
>reeeeeee they're making fun of our maymays
?

>>12292484
What is bad about them?
I hope your argument is better than "they're lefties!! Reeeeeeee".
I'm not a leftie, just want to make that clear before I am accused of being one.

>>12292674
Why do you trip?

>>12292674
what about fascists

>>12292674

No one likes you. No one here ever has liked you. Go away.

>>12292842
To keep track of myself.

>>12292851
The fascists in Russia turned once they saw who was winning. Only the fascists who get punched to the ground aren’t antifa

>>12292857
No, the person should just stop with the name tag...

>>12292857
You’re no good here, anon.

>>12292829
The covers look really gaudy and stupid. I genuinely prefer the Penguin covers.

>>12292870
I too am the Unique one

>>12292523
>CR*PITALISM: A Scatology of Late Capitalism
>by Rupert Flemming

>It's no secret that society has gone to sh*t: families are squeezed for cash, the economy is clogged with debt, and the money just wont trickle down. But how do we understand these uncertain times?
>In this groundbreaking new book, Rupert Flemming takes a novel approach to analyzing society in late capitalism, or "Cr*pitalism" as he calls it. Using the Bristol Stool Chart, Flemming reveals the cause of our societal constipation and cultural diarrhea, and takes aim at the one-percent. Flemming also viciously opposes many contemporary "solutions" such as increased taxes, or as he calls them, "Laxatives," as treating the symptoms, not the cause. After reading this powerful breakdown of the cr*pitalism, i'm sure you too will agree that the entire system needs to be flushed away.
>Published by Zero Books

>>12292933
I literally cannot tell if the title, description, and cover are fake or not. And I don't really want to find out either way. Thanks for the laugh.

>>12292876

Go ride a lesbian bicycle over to some sad infoshop where the very stupid man Richard Seymor is misunderstanding racism for the audience. Donald Trump is president. Your slut tattoo is stupid. Stereolab is a boring band. Don't eat me.

>>12292876
Not that guy, but everything you post is garbage. Fucking up the ante or stop posting.

>>12292674

As a fascist, I can tell you we believe in the elimination of tripfags.

>>12292993
Spooked af collectivists. Of course you do.
>red pill. Been a blue pill all this time

>>12292523

>>12293036

>Please notice me

>>12292933

>>12292933
>its real
HOLY
FUCKING
SH*T

>>12292523
>(s)Mall Sacrifices: How 21st Century Valley Girl Culture Contributed to 18th Century Colonialism
>by Megan Dykel

>If i asked you if you believed in time travel, you might chuckle and tell me you think its just a science-fiction tale told to entertain the movie-going audiences.
>But what if i told you that capitalist culture in the 21st century was actually contributing to colonial expansion 300 years ago?
>How the valley-girl narcissism, consumerism, and shallow pursuits of more have fundamentally changed "How the west was won?"
>In this cutting edge critique of the capitalist time travel system forwarded by Mark Fisher and sharpened here, Dykel's latest work reveals how the present societal ills of capitalism affect the past and how we can use this newfound knowledge to change how future capitalistic exploits alter the present.

>>12292527
He probably just found the image online.

>>12293317
kek, nice

>>12293257
Is it? i went to the website and could find the book nor the author

>>12292523
>about to mock your hyperbole

>>12292933
I stand corrected, carry on

>>12292484
Babbling Corpse worth a read?

>>12293357
fucking retard lmao

>>12293317
>Below My Pay Grade: How Not Working Works
>Thomas Cropsey

>In an age of of abundance, there are those who still starve.
>In an era where more means more and less means less, there are those who walk the line.
>Thomas Cropsey is one of those few who have valiantly chosen not to work again.
>Using a new financial loophole that has the potential to bring about the collapse of western neo-capitalism, Cropsey introduces us to the ability to use ancestral financial funds to stave off starvation whilst pursuing our passions unhindered by the corporate elite
>Groundbreaking and earth-shattering, this new system teaches us how to break free from the chains of financial burden and place it on the shoulders of accumulated wealth.

>>12293425
kek, this is what every trust-fund socialist actually believes.

>>12293425
Wait, so it's basically Living Off Rent: The Book? Isn't that what Capitalism is about?

>>12292491
I smiled

>>12293432
i meant it as more of the stereotype of the aspiring artist being able to live in new york and pursue their career because theyre a trust fund baby and how theyre so deluded that they think this is some form of revolution

>>12292530
i just read the 4chan book and it was a huge letdown, it goes from condemning the mgtow, mra, proud boys for having unrealistic views about the world i.e. alpha and beta mindset, women being more concerned with superficial values such as looks and money etc., to condemning them for not accepting their place in the grand scheme of things i.e. they weren't predisposed to height, women go for masculine, muscular guys etc. see, the left's response to the alt right isn't "you guys have a deluded way of looking at the world, people have greater depth than you give them credit for, you need to stop masochistically comparing yourself to others and dwelling on these feelings of inferiority," instead the left's response is, "yeah, you guys are weak losers, that's how nature works, it weeds out the sickly to nourish the strong, you need to accept that the greatest gift you can give the world is your death." They don't tell them they've got it wrong, they tell them they've got it right and need to stop complaining about it, they have no counter-argument, they've gone so far as to taking the term 'incel', a made up, pseudoscientific diagnosis with no actual foundation in reality and applying it as a pejorative, lending it even more strength and reinforcing the very idea that yes, there are people out there who are deliberately avoided, essentially giving validation to these neurotic, paranoid delusions. The left is the antagonistic side of the equation, they offer no alternative, they're the ones saying 'get a life, quit yer bitchin, man up, put up or shut up,' all of which fall under an umbrella of Nietzschean doctrine which Angela Nagle made no small effort in criticizing and attaching any and all of the worst associations to, Nietzsche was attacked in this book more than in all the critiques I've read combined and it was obvious her knowledge was cursory at best, based on hearsay at worst, and if her book is accurate in any way then you shouldn't even be here since according to her 4chan is made up exclusively of alt right propagandists, her book was one of the biggest disservices to enlightened intellectual debate since schopenhauer's On Women, unless he was telling the truth

>inb4 t. incel

>>12293325
That's significantly more effort than was put into most of the others

>>12293492
>see, the left's response to the alt right isn't "you guys have a deluded way of looking at the world, people have greater depth than you give them credit for, you need to stop masochistically comparing yourself to others and dwelling on these feelings of inferiority," instead the left's response is, "yeah, you guys are weak losers, that's how nature works, it weeds out the sickly to nourish the strong, you need to accept that the greatest gift you can give the world is your death." They don't tell them they've got it wrong, they tell them they've got it right and need to stop complaining about it

This is my because problem with the modern left: their lack of logical consistency. They are more concerned with defeating ideological opponents that they will reinforce the same beliefs (social darwinism and elitism) that they argue against in other contexts if it can undermine their opponents. I can't respect the level of cognitive dissonance and insincerity the (mainstream) left now operates on.

>>12293539
my biggest problem*

>>12292523
kek

>>12292484
At this point I'm convinced that nothing less than an immediate coma can save Lain from his instinctive Marxism.

>Deconstructing Dirty Dancing
>by Stephen Lee Naish

>Renowned film critic Roger Ebert said Dirty Dancing "might have been a decent movie if it had allowed itself to be about anything." In this broadly researched and accessible text, Stephen Lee Naish sets out to deconstruct and unlock a film that has haunted him for decades, and argues that Dirty Dancing, the 1987 sleeper hit about a young middle-class girl who falls for a handsome working-class dance instructor, is actually about everything. The film is a union of history, politics, sixties and eighties culture, era-defining music, class, gender, and race, and of course features one of the best love stories set to film. Using scene-by-scene analyses, personal interpretation, and comparative study, it's time to take Dirty Dancing out of the corner and place it under the microscope.

>>12293492
> "you guys have a deluded way of looking at the world, people have greater depth than you give them credit for, you need to stop masochistically comparing yourself to others and dwelling on these feelings of inferiority,"
because they don't believe that, they believe in natural impulses, bodies want sex, minds want experience and expansion, they're superficially moral, half of them voted for Obama because it was "the right thing to do...(he was black, after all.)" They pretended to vote for Clinton (because she was a woman) while in their hearts they threw their hat in the ring for Trump then acted flabbergasted that he won, you know that meme video that's a huge montage of all the John Oliver's ridiculing the notion that Trump would run for office? What do they say? "Do it, f-in do it." They encouraged him, gave him nonstop attention, loads of free press, clung to every word that came out of his mouth, paraded his image in imitation, sarcasm, lampoon, all forms of humor and flattery, if they'd never wanted him president they wouldn't have made fun of him, they would have made him out to be dangerous or ignored him completely, instead they kept the entire country's attention on him, make no mistake, the left put Trump in office, they don't believe in change, you wanna see how the left and right view things? Something like this:

Right Wing: "Blacks steal."
Left Wing: "Blacks steal, because socioeconomic displacement and deprivation has diminished capacities for disenfranchised individuals to secure stable sources of income, maintaining standards of living on par or surpassing the average of non-college high school graduates or holders of high school equivalency diplomas and certificates."

Except that no leftist could ever be that articulate, and each one of those limbs of rhetoric would branch off to more and more tangential digressions leading nowhere, another Sierpinski gasket, just like our DFW illustrated, they're full of it, and don't even believe their own nonsense.

>>12293587
The logical endpoint of indulgent academia

>>12292523
>Red Pill Blue Pill: Alienated Erections
>by Mathias Williams

>In the hit film "The Matrix" Neo is offered the choice between a Red Pill, which will free him from his false reality, and the Blue Pill, which will let him live on in blissful ignorance. For some of us it isn't so easy.
>Self-Confessed porn addict Mathias Williams tells of what it is like to have erectile dysfunction under Late Capitalism. Following in the vein of Marx's 1844 Manuscripts, Williams shows how men are increasingly alienated from their own penises—the very symbol or reproduction—through the abuse of the sex-drive in corporate advertisement and products. Going "incognito mode," Williams reveals the shady "porn-viagra" pipeline and the true details of how our erections are ruthlessly exploited by the financial elite. An eye-opening account of an oft-ignored problems, "Red Pill Blue Pill" is sure to change to way we see and react to the porn industry today.

>>12293492
>They don't tell them they've got it wrong, they tell them they've got it right and need to stop complaining about it, they have no counter-argument
>The left is the antagonistic side of the equation, they offer no alternative

Genuinely interesting take

>>12293587
Truly blurring the lines here, good stuff

>Exposing Phallacy
>An Exploration of Flashing in a Contemporary Context
>by Kate Gould

>While others flirt with the accoutrements of romance and sexiness for lovers, flashers confront the spectator with sex organs. They ask no consent, baring the genitals of which they are so proud, convinced their spectators will desire them. But they rarely do. Instead, they are more likely to object to the imposition of the male flasher and leer at the female flasher. While softcore porn is fashionable and ubiquitous, the flashers public full frontal display is still forbidden.

>Good Day Today
>David Lynch Destabilises The Spectator
>by Daniel Neofetou

>In his speech following the 2011nationwide riots in Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron spoke out against people “being too unwilling for too long to talk about what is right and what is wrong” and proclaimed “this relativism – it’s not going to cut it anymore”. He was, then, presumably laying the foundation for one-size-fits-all absolutist authoritarianism and, worryingly, the moral outrage induced by the riots means a large proportion of the British public might not oppose such measures.

>When such a mindset is on the verge of becoming pandemic, where do we turn? This book suggests that the work of another David, born 20 years before and 3,000 miles away from Cameron, might engender a mode of thinking which does not apprehend the world in terms of such easy distinctions. In David Lynch, we find a director whose films – by utilising the tropes of the Hollywood movie, but subverting their accepted meanings - profoundly destablise spectators, and lead them to consider things not in terms of prescribed binaries, but as complex and multi-faceted.

>>12293874
That's not real....right?

>>12292484
I simply don't like that font, it's ugly.

>iCommunism
>by Colin Cremin

>Capitalism promised us shiny things but only communism can deliver them in a different, more liberating, universal and sustainable form.

>Our relationship to consumption is not an easy one. Apart from being self-centred, superficial and narcissistic, the consumer is held responsible for global warming, poverty and now, by binging on easy credit, economic crisis. A straw man has many uses, including being part of the solution by reducing carbon footprints, consuming more ethically and tightening the proverbial belt. iCommunism defends the consumer against the prevailing politics of austerity. It splits the fetish from the commodity fetish by taking the shine away from the commodity now signified in the ubiquitous i of i branded products and transfers it over to communism. With ideology once again alive on the streets of Europe, iCommunism reimagines Herbert Marcuse s 1960s artistic critique of capitalism s repressive performance principle for today s consumer society. Capitalism promised us shiny things but only communism can deliver them in a different, more liberating, universal and sustainable form.

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>>12292504
Kek'd. Not even rightwing, just found it funny.

>Lenin Lives!
>Reimagining the Russian Revolution 1917-2017
>by Philip Cunliffe

>What if history had had a happy ending? To change the future, we need to reimagine the past.

>Of all the tomes published on the centenary of the Russian Revolution, none will reckon with a key part of the story: what if the revolutionaries' dreams had come true, instead of being dashed? Yet no tale of the Russian Revolution is complete without asking 'what if ...?'

>Lenin Lives! lays out a narrative account of how history might have happened differently if Lenin had lived long enough to see the global spread of the Russian Revolution to Western Europe and the USA. In one alternative world, instead of the grim authoritarian and autarkic states of the East, socialist revolution in the world’s most advanced economies ushers in an era of global peace, progress and prosperity, with global federations substituting for nation-states and international organisations. In keeping with the hopes of European revolutionaries of the time, the early achievement of socialism leads to a drastic improvement in human progress, economic growth, democracy and freedom at the global level.

>LACONIA: 1,200 TWEETS ON FILM
>by Masha Tupitsyn

>If the sound bite is the new order, then how do we make every word count? In todays surplus world of communication overload and cultural clutter, writer and cultural critic Masha Tupitsyn turns to the media matrix of Twitter to explore the changing ways that we construct and consume narrative. Loosely applying the discerning aphorism—a compressed genre in itself—to a 21st century context, LACONIA: 1,200 TWEETS ON FILM offers meditations on film and popular culture that resonant with laconic meaning and personal insight while getting to the heart of the matter. Inspired by Chris Markers free-associative film impressions in La Jet èe and Sans Soleil, LACONIA is part film diary, part cultural inventory, and part mashup. Pulling from an array of film, popular culture, books, and mainstream news, it offers penetrating critical commentary on an increasingly muddled virtual world. LACONIA consists of brick by brick prose, as Tupitsyn thinks in sentences and lines that culminate in an architecture of thinking.

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/lit/ btfo

>Max Stirner’s The Unique and Its Property (1844) is the first ruthless critique of modern society. In All Things are Nothing to Me, Jacob Blumenfeld reconstructs the unique philosophy of Max Stirner (1806–1856), a figure that strongly influenced—for better or worse—Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Emma Goldman as well as numerous anarchists, feminists, surrealists, illegalists, existentialists, fascists, libertarians, dadaists, situationists, insurrectionists and nihilists of the last two centuries.

>Misunderstood, dismissed, and defamed, Stirner’s work is considered by some to be the worst book ever written. It combines the worst elements of philosophy, politics, history, psychology, and morality, and ties it all together with simple tautologies, fancy rhetoric, and militant declarations. That is the glory of Max Stirner’s unique footprint in the history of philosophy.

>Jacob Blumenfeld wanted to exhume this dead tome along with its dead philosopher, but discovered instead that, rather than deceased, their spirits are alive and quite well, floating in our presence. All Things are Nothing to Me is a forensic investigation into how Stirner has stayed alive throughout time.

>>12292608
your enjoyment of something doesn't really translate to whether you'll cite it in philosophy/politics either, honestly, but this is the internet so everyone here reflexively recoils away from any work that doesn't flick their affirmation switch

>>12294095
>>12294133
Oh fuck it's actually real

>>12294095
>it's fucking real

Holy moly

>Melancology
>Black Metal Theory and Ecology
>by Scott Wilson

>Melancology addresses Black Metal as a form of environmental writing and provides a provocative contribution to debates on ecology.

>Melancology addresses the notorious musical genre black metal as a negative form of environmental writing that ‘blackens’ the cosmos. This book conjures a new word and concept that conjoins ‘black’ and ‘ecology’: melancology, a word in which can be heard the melancholy affect appropriate to the conjunction. Black metal resounds from the abyss and it is precisely only in relation to its sonic forces that the question of intervention in the environment arises in the articulation of melancology with ethics. That is, in deciding ‘which way out’ we should take, in deciding with what surpluses to dwell, with what waste, what detritus or decay in a process of unbinding with sonic forces that traverse an earth choking in wealth and death. The book thus provides a provocative and challenging contribution both to popular and intellectual debates on ecology.

>The book contains key contributions from Nicola Masciandaro, author of Hideous Gnosis, Reza Negarestani and Eugene Thacker, author of In the Dust of this Planet, whose cover cn be seen on Jay-Z’s back promoting Run and has been lambasted by ex-Fox News broadcaster, Glenn Beck.

>>12293492
t. incel
while i basically think you're right i think that it's still incorrect to say the left is "the antagonist side" since they're only reflexively opting in to the antagonistic social darwinism that everyone, like it or not, has already internalized as an aspect of postmodernity. The left rails against that worldview sometimes, and rightly so, but when presented with such an attitude in such stark, comical vitriol, they defensively jump back into this postmodernist refrain: whatever is wrong, it must be your own fault, because the System is there to choose who is strong and who is weak. If I had to guess, I would expect this sort of dissonance shows up mostly when you get well-off people who become leftist as a band-aid for their own insecurity about their inherited wealth and status.

>>12294155
what brand of anti-capitalism wants to gas all these champagne socialist fuckers as soon as the revolution starts?

is there a form of leftism that doesn't let in rich roleplayers?

>>12292484
if 90% of your books need a subtitle like "X and Y in the age of Z" they're probably pure shit.

>>12293539
frankly i don't think this is unique to leftists in today's discourse, it's the kind of thing that festers when both sides of a debate show up to argue for a while in front of the press and then rely on their own news camp, online cliques, and so on to justify what they've said after the fact. This book's cognitive dissonance exists because it's not an argument at all, it's a distant 'dunk' designed to make the reader feel better than its target, and frankly the right has shown a greater enthusiasm for that medium than the left has.

>>12292491
none of those are "books"

>>12292651
fisher is a hack, and angela nagle, the current jewel of the crown, literally copy-pasted her book from neoreactionary online publications and wikipedia

>>12292933
>Cr*pitalism" as he calls it

>>12294164
crust punks
but honestly, no, because leftism the way we talk about it is an intellectual movement, and any intellectual circle of any significance is going to be seeded with at least one ignorant prep kid who doesn't actually understand why they're doing this. They don't spoil leftism entirely, but they're fucking annoying to deal with

>>12293492
the book is garbage, but your take on it is even worse

>>12293539
nobody is ever going to like weak men, doesn't matter how much you try to reverse feminism.

feminism worked because it exploited the natural drive that men and society have to protect women, that's why you can never make it work in reverse

>>12294074
keked

>The Politics of Down Syndrome
>by Kieron Smith

>The Politics of Down Syndrome is a call for people to think again about what it means to be inclusive, why we're hung up on the idea of intelligence and how an inclusive society is a better society.

>Are we a more accepting society than ever before? Is there no longer a 'them and us' division between the disabled and 'everybody else'? The Politics of Down Syndrome looks at how we got to where we are, from the racist roots of its identification to the rising number of abortions today. Down syndrome is the most common form of learning disability, shared by all classes and races, yet it's one we rarely address our feelings about, head on. This book, although direct and questioning, takes a positive view about where we go from here and the opportunity for society to fully enjoy the benefits of being inclusive.

>The Pac-Man Principle
>A User's Guide to Capitalism
>by Alex Wade

>A blast from the past; direction to the future? Pac-Man is our guide through the maze of contemporary capitalism.

>In spite of being well into middle-age, Pac-Man's popularity shows no sign of decline and the character has appeared in over sixty games on virtually every games platform ever released. According to the David Brown celebrity index, in 2008, nearly three decades after initial release, 94% of Americans were able to recognise Pac-Man, which gave the character greater brand awareness than Super Mario. Pac-Man, with its avowed commitment to non-violence was a videogame of many firsts, including being designed to appeal to children and females and providing the first narrative interlude in a videogame. Although iconic, Pac-Man has not been subject to sustained critical analysis. This book helps to fill that gap, providing an extensive, sophisticated, but accessible analysis of the influence of Pac-Man on the way that we live in contemporary western societies.

>>12294121
This is just commie fan fiction.

>>12292523
Hi Rosi Sengupta Haile-Yohannes, do you like to pour the milk in the bowl before or after the cereal?

Edit: wow thanks for the gold kind stranger!

>>12294256

>>12294155
the reaction of the left to the alt right is nothing new, my mother used to say, "somebody shoot that fucker," whenever Newt Gingrich would show up on TV, Newt Gingrich may be many things but I've never thought of him as vitriolic, my leftist (at the time) mother certainly was in her reactions to him however. Leftists have this fascination with death, they want to keep abortions affordable and easy to obtain, they're in favor of passive eugenics with their relentless pushing of multiculturalism, and everybody knows that too, that's the best part, they say, "look at the little white boys afraid of the big black guys," it's like, yeah, duh, you women don't give a damn, you get dick either way, have your babies, serve your purpose, whatever, you think we want to be murdered? We used to have our own place where we could be among our own people and feel safe, communal, now we have to share everything with God knows who from God knows where, you know that line in Munich, when he's talking to his mother and she says, about Israel, "A place on the Earth. We have a place on the Earth, at last." The same sentiment is shared by the Palestinian he talks to, "You don't know what it is not to have a home, that's why you European Reds don't get it, you say 'it's nothing,' but you have a home to come back to." Leftists are effective propagandists, just look at your saying > the antagonistic social darwinism that everyone, like it or not, has already internalized as an aspect of postmodernity.< I didn't know that everybody had subscribed to that, in fact I don't believe that for a second, that is not an irrefutable fact, though you present it as one, it's an unsubstantiated fallacy that likely has little bearing on America and is entirely insignificant to the world at large, while many Westerners are familiar with Darwin and Huxley, via Houellebecq, it's difficult to imagine that China and India's billions of people subscribe to those particular mutations of their theories. And trying to present the left as having nothing to do with "The System," is preposterous to the point of embarrassment.

You know, it's nice to have a thread like this on /lit/ every once in a while.

>>12294134
I bought that Stirner book. It's definitely pro Stirner - and it's also actually good.

>>12293492
>the left's response to the alt right isn't "you guys have a deluded way of looking at the world, people have greater depth than you give them credit for, you need to stop masochistically comparing yourself to others and dwelling on these feelings of inferiority," instead the left's response is, "yeah, you guys are weak losers, that's how nature works, it weeds out the sickly to nourish the strong, you need to accept that the greatest gift you can give the world is your death." They don't tell them they've got it wrong, they tell them they've got it right and need to stop complaining about it, they have no counter-argument

First things first: You might not be aware of your fallacy here, but observe that there's no ruling principle that they should respond like so and so in the first place.
You complain that they don't react in a way that you'd like them to - why?
This is their response - a realistic one - so why not support them in not falling in like with a blander ideology.

>>12294504
They are the apex of bland ideology, my little leftoid friend.

>The Gloves of Old Nazism
>Andrea Dover
>2016

>In The Longest Day (1962), Hitler is a concealed character who spends much of D-Day in states of unconsciousness or reckless anger. Now, in one of theory-fiction's most perplexing contributions, Andrea Dover asks: in the dreams of Hitler's unconscious, what kind of monsters haunted the father of Nazism?
>Following Mark Fisher's exploration of Derridean "hauntology", Dover combines Marxist historiography with comedic horror to draw an urgent and fascinating picture of Nazism that irrevocably contributes to our understanding of contemporary politics, culture, and desire.

These are just satire right? RIGHT? Or is the left REALLY this far gone?

>>12294661
the fact that you can barely tell should tell you something

>>12294531
or: you take this piece of evidence to reject your previously held ide.
Of course they are fucking ideologists, but what good is it for you to paint them as entirely irrational and programmed people, when it's more realistic that they are just very (not entirely) irrational and quite (but not entirely) programmed.
If you make a caricature of your fiend, you fall for your ideology as well

>>12293492
>"yeah, you guys are weak losers, that's how nature works, it weeds out the sickly to nourish the strong, you need to accept that the greatest gift you can give the world is your death."
Nagle herself literally go against this line of retort and was very sympathetic to the alt-right. Did you even read the book?

We should be clear though: even the left hates Zero

>>12294152
This actually sounds kinda interesting though

>>12292523
barely satire at this point

>>12293492
t. incel

>>12294152
based

>>12294851
>>12292523
Even a cusory glance at the books, you can tell identity politics is barely written...

>>12294164
any real leftism wants to gas those people (and the topic often comes up).

I don't mean Samantha Bee/Beto O'Rourke "leftism", I mean "would not hesitate to throw a brick at a cop if the moment called for it" leftism

>>12294166
Vritually every non-fiction book has a subtitle. Are you new to books?

>>12294284
>Leftists have this fascination with death
There's like 30 threads a day on /pol/ that exclusively discuss how to convince trans people to commit suicide

>>12294904
Based

>>12293036
The nametag is also called the newfag test. I don't care how long you've been here, you are still a newfag.

Which Zero Books publication are you currently reading? Pic related for me. The first chapter has been fantastic

>>12294284
What are your political/ideological view s?

>>12292523
>and AIDS Cum magazine

>>12292674
sure honey

>>12293492
you´re not wrong

https://www.socialmatter.net/2018/06/11/plagiarize-social-matter-without-actually-getting-caught/

https://freecharlesdavis.com/2018/05/26/kill-all-citations-5-more-examples-of-angela-nagle-lifting-wikipedia-and-other-writers/

>>12294121

>>12293492
Nagle's understanding of Nietzsche is so shallow it calls all her other writing into doubt.

>>12295896
>Nagle's understanding of Nietzsche
she is not a Nietzsche scholar though, just a random center-left journalist girl

>>12295906
Even a random journo should be better than:

"Nietzsche, by far the most influential thinker across all of the strands that make up the alt- right, warned that ‘a declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed’ to dominate ‘the superfluous’."

>The Wandering Who?
>A study of Jewish identity politics
>by Gilad Atzmon

>An explosive unique crucial book tackling the issues of Jewish Identity Politics and ideology and their global influence.

>Jewish identity is tied up with some of today’s most difficult and contentious issues. The purpose of this book is to open up many of these issues for discussion. It examines Jewish identity politics and Jewish contemporary ideology using both popular culture and scholarly texts. Since Israel defines itself openly as the ‘Jewish State’, we should ask what the notions of Judaism, Jewishness, Jewish culture and Jewish ideology stand for. Atzmon analyses secular Jewish political and cultural discourse, both Zionist and anti Zionist. He looks at the Jewish political attitude towards history and time, the role of the holocaust, anti-Gentile ideologies, Jewish pressure groups, Zionist lobbying and more. The current state of world affairs raises an urgent need for a change in our attitudes towards politics, identity politics and history.

>>12295896
her (from a shitty source she cited earlier but now, in once again flagrant plagiary fashion, copied quasi verbatim yet left unsaid) mention of Blanchot was also appalling.

>>12293639
*snap*

>>12295941
that's not an interpretation, that's a literal quote, complain to Nietzsche why he wrote it

>>12292523
Give yourself a pat on the back. Why? because you saved the world.

>>12292933
>Late capitalism
What is this meme?

>>12296266
doesn't mean anything but sounds cool

>>12294209
>The Politics of Down Syndrome
this sounds interesting, anyone got a link?

>>12296067
The higher men are the superfluous though: surplus-men.

Damn, lefties getting absolutely dunked on in this thread

>>12296266
Communist eschatology, basically. You know, the end times and everything. Very cringe stuff.

>>12293372

Definitely not. I am currently writing an article about vaporwave for a cambridge journal of music and for my preperations I got meme'd into this pile of shit. In short, it is basically Tanner making vague statements about hauntology -- something he knows next to nothing about -- and links these with trite arguments concerning capitalism. Think along the lines of:

>whoa, like the music was ALREADY there but you just didnt hear it. Heh, guess capitalism just fucking sucks, ammirite guys?

One of the reasons why I am writing said article is partly in response to his shitty "analysis" and the fact that there is literally nothing else out on the topic right now.

>>12294152

>thought this was fake
>it's real

What the actual fuck

>>12296610
With their own words no less. The best way to destroy leftism is to amplify their own voices so normies can be exposed to how insane and out of touch they are with reality.

>>12296610
It's more a mockery of Zero Books' editorial standards

>>12292484
I've heard Kill All Normies was actually good.

>>12292491
Based

>>12292523
>>12294175
My sides

>>12294214
Pac-Man literally eats ghosts for money how is that non-violent

>>12297096
The author of that book always died while running away from the ghosts, he was never good or clever enough to get to the part where they start running away from you and you eat them.

>>12294904
I've never seen one of these threads and browse daily so I'm nearly certain you're lying, but Fascism is both unironically modernist and leftist. Nazism is somewhat more elitist (at least ostensibly), but is still ultimately modern and revolutionary. The obsession with death isn't a product of either right or left, but is instead a product of the revolutionary mindset - titanic hubris coupled with an unending well of resentment boiling over into the will to murder.

>>12297107
I would unironically believe that

>>12296266
It just means when capitalism faces too much contradictions and crises

>>12297156
So is Venezuela experiencing "Late Socialism" right now?

>>12292523
good parody of these pseudos anon

>>12297265
It's not even far from the truth. Look at the bio of the author of this >>12294127

>Masha Tupitsyn is the author of LACONIA: 1,200 Tweets on Film (ZerO Books, 2011), Beauty Talk & Monsters, a collection of film-based stories (Semiotext(e) Press, 2007), and co-editor of the anthology Life As We Show It: Writing on Film (City Lights, 2009). Her new book, Love Dog (http://mashatupitsyn.tumblr.com/)), a multi-media project, is forthcoming with Penny-Ante Editions in March 2013. Her fiction and criticism have appeared or is forthcoming in the anthologies The American Tetralogy (2013), The Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology (2012), The Encyclopedia Project Volume II, F-K (2010), and Wreckage of Reason: XXperimental Women Writers Writing in the 21st Century (2008), as well as, Bomb Blog, The New Inquiry, Fence, Bookforum, The Rumpus, Berfrois, Sex Magazine, Anobium, Two Serious Ladies, NYFA Current, Ali Liebegott’s Faggot Dinosaur, Keyframe, Specter Magazine, Boing Boing, Indiewire's Press Play, Venus Magazine, 2nd Floor Projects, Animal Shelter, The Fanzine, Make/Shift: Feminisms in Motion, Drunken Boat, and San Francisco's KQED's The Writer's Block. She has written video essays on film and culture for Ryeberg Curated Video http://www.ryeberg.com/curated-videos/lost-highway/, which features writers like Mary Gaitskill and Sheila Heti. In 2011, she wrote a radio play for Performa 11, "Time for Nothing," the New Visual Art Performance Biennial in conjunction with Frieze Magazine. She is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at The European Graduate School in Switzerland. She lives in New York.

>>12297233
No standard shock therapy from usa

>>12297283
How is this bad?

>>12297335
You kidding? It's the most pozzed shit I've ever seen

>>12297347
Okay? How is it pozzed?

>>12297283
>Ali Liebegott’s Faggot Dinosaur
what

>>12297368
>Okay?

Ummm? Sweetie? You can't see that it is? Lol... s mh, feel bad for you right now

>>12297375
If you can’t explain to me how it is bad, you are preaching to the choir. It seems like everyone ITT just appeals to absurdity without effectively criticizing their editorial style or books.

I am a non-westerner so I am not playing dumb

>>12297407
And what are you appealing to by arguing that this kind of research is valid and significant?

>>12297452
I am not claiming that it is ‘valid and significant research’ (I don’t even think they think what they are writing is research), but I am asking you why do you think that biography you posted is bad and posed. Don’t strawman me senpai.

>>12294121
Okay, I'm not at home to the others, but this actually sounds metal af

>>12297462
>I am asking you why do you think that biography you posted is bad and posed
Because it represents the results of years of mental masturbation, fart-sniffing, and narcissistic navel gazing. These kinds of people dominate modern academic discourse, and that is not something to be praised or encouraged.

>>12293874
was hoping this was real desu i wanted to watch it

>>12297480
But 4 posts in and you still haven’t explained how is the biography bad other than browbeating the person.

>>12292674
literally based namefag

>>12297462
It's fucking pathetically self-indulgent, jargony shit. It's something anyone with a vaguely "liberal arts education" could do, just puffed up into a deceitfully self-conscious, performative game, participation in which then becomes a bourgeois status symbol and class-designator.

Beyond just being pathetic, it's actively damaging to any kind of genuine leftist praxis, because it reifies the bourgeois mentality and all the institutions it pretends to critique. In order to read and/or write books by a trendy new hip cutting-edge leftist press (I read "presses," do you? I say things like, "My favourite press is Zero Books," but I'm a champion of the working class, are you? Did you read the review of Perry Anderson's memoirs in the New Yorker???), in order to understand all their ankle-deep pretentious manipulations of pomo and lit crit jargon, you are always already implicitly presupposing all of the institutions I just mentioned: the academic ivory tower (that now exists as a vehicle for learning this kind of behaviour, i.e., essentially a finishing school where rich little daddy's boys and girls can go learn this bourgeoisified version of leftist jargon so they can fit in with the other "socially conscious" rich people on Twitter and at parties), the forums and discourses in which this behaviour makes sense (whether real or virtual, online or off - Twitter, parties, trendy internships that make you feel special, friendships and acquaintanceships with people who "get" that you're socially conscious, having places where it "makes sense" to say "Do you read Zero Books? They're a pretty good press, haha I find it funny when Zizek talks about communism by using references to Taylor Swift :), yo I'm totally down for the revolution whenever it starts! But until then, pass me that legalized weed and tomorrow let's take the car your parents bought you and go downtown in the middle of a weekday to watch movies because we're college students :P YOLO #communistmemesforjohnshopkinsteens!!!"), and so on.

The sad thing is that if any of these people understood leftism or leftist critique or the hermeneutics of suspicion they pretend to deploy every five seconds they would understand how they are the biggest fucking glowing pile of false negativity ever generated by neoliberal "late capitalism." They have astroturfed the terrain on which authentic critique is supposed to grow, a process that was ironically described by authentic critique generations ago. In doing so, they promote the growth of the machine whose interest it is to astroturf all terrains on which authentic critique might take place, a process that is also ironically described and warned against by authentic critique generations ago.

All of this could be summed up by saying: turning leftism into a social signalling ritual for rich pieces of shit kills leftism. "Wrong life cannot be lived rightly." Stop turning criticism of the bourgeois historic bloc into a fucking bourgeois pastime.

>>12297530
SO. MUCH. THIS.

This is everything. This is what we need to stop Donald Drumph. Not this wack neo-liberal bullshit where rich kids pretend to be socialists because they think its hip. We need real socialism, the kind me and this guy subscribe to.
#fuckfakeleftists

>>12297554
Sorry to disappoint you but I'm more right than left. I just hate capitalism and rich people.

>>12297530
Finally an effortpost. But then even if these people are genuine and not just wanting to virtue signal, how or what can they do? They already seem alien to the working class no matter what they do and books like this seems like the only way out from them.

>>12297564
Then how are you right-wing, just on social issues?

>>12292876
please piss off. you're not welcome

>>12297564
>Sorry to disappoint you but I'm more right than left
well whatever, it was a bad joke anyway

>>12297654
i consider myself more right wing than left and i hate capitalism as well. Im not 100% sure why it irks me but i can tell you that i hate consumerism. I also hate how capitalism has a financial incentive to corrupt people by marketing to their basest desires or using psychological marketing tricks to get people to buy things that they dont need.

Im not particularly well read on the topic, these are just the thoughts of a passerby

>Tfw kinda racist and hate capitalism

NAZBOL BOIS RISE UP

>>12297321
Kek'd thanks for the laugh

Zero books more like... zero books lmao

>>12297772
>Im not particularly well read on the topic, these are just the thoughts of a passerby
Passerbys don’t have such an insight to the mindset of those fake leftist (or to the nature of capitalism) though.

>>12297233
They’re socdem like Europe. The neoliberals are knocking at both their doors

>>12297772
You're a traditionalist, my friend. The only "politcal" (I use that term very loosely in the case of traditionalists) position that is more strongly anti-capitalist than leftists.

>>12296610
I’m pretty sure a lot of the replies are from lefties who are dissatisfied with this garbage pop culture driven trash.

>>12298564
Bro, are you saying you don't love Mark Fisher? Wow you must be retarded if you don't think analyzing Wall-E is the height of anti-capitalist critique.

>>12293587
>it's real
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>12294284
“Left” and “right” are very amibbiguous terms. There’s no monolith “right” or “left”

>>12298862
>>it's real
>AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
holy fucking hell, i can't tell anymore, i googled the Cr*pitalism one and thought the rest were fake too, but turns out the most ridiculous ones are real

>>12297530
Did you write this?
>>/lit/thread/S11082522#p11090950
Worth checking out the thread even if you didn't.

>>12297564
Fucking BASED

>>12298150
good post

>>12297530
>>12299330
is Zizek part of the problem? i think Zizek is usually given a pass because he identifies the right problems, but he still never digs any deeper into those problems, just mentions them and then falls back into flashing shiny things on your face so you don't have to think about it and just repeat trendy words and leftist slogans

>>12294121
>Please just give me just one scenario where communism wins

>>12292547
>Absolutely blood-chilling to think how you are unable to tell the difference between this shitpost and the real thing.
It's blood-chilling cause it makes you a medically certified retard.

>>12293639
>right wing: simpleton crap
>left wing: actual analysis
>anon: it's just too complex! it branches off! it's got digressions! gimme a bedtime story!

>>12298211
I spend enough time here to pick up some anti-capitalist points. I've always hated consumerism and usually any marxists critiques of capitalism that resonate with me are because I can relate them to that initial hatred in some way in my head.
>>12298515
I hear that tossed around a pot. Not sure what it means exactly or where to start looking

>>12297120
i have so gfy

>>12297120
Day of the rope is a common term on pol.

>>12296266
It's what online Marxist pseuds call "late stage Capitalism." It's basically become a catch all buzzword that means everything so therefore nothing. I used to be a committed Marxist until I realized the revolution will be led and followed by midwits like the people who currently populate the radical left in its online and real world spaces.

>Superstructural Berlin
>A Superstructural Tourist Guide to Berlin for the Visitor and the New Resident
>Nicolas Hausdorf and Alexander Goller

>Fear and Loathing in the Las Vegas of intellectuals and psychagogic city mapping.
>Superstructural Berlin is an experimental sociology of the city of Berlin. A mix of pamphlet-polemic, cultural critique, and weird colourful mapping enterprise. It tries to investigate the city as a series of infrastructures: drugs, nightclubs, arts, new economy and tourism.

>>12301018
>experimental sociology

>Dark Matters
>A Manifesto for the Nocturnal City
>Nick Dunn
.
>Dark Matters explores the city at night as a place and time within which escape from the confines of the daytime is possible. More specifically, it is a state of being.
There is a long history of nightwalking, often integral to shady worlds of miscreants, shift workers and transgressors. Yet the night offers much to be enjoyed beyond vice. Night by definition contrasts day, summoning notions of darkness and fear. But another night exists out there.
Liberation and exhilaration in the urban landscape is increasingly rare when so much of our attention and actions are controlled. Rather than consider darkness as negative, opposed to illumination and enlightenment, this book explores the rich potential of the dark for our senses. The question may no longer be about what spaces we wish to engage with but when we do?

>>12299373
I don't think that's Zizek's fault so much as it is the way he's portrayed by everybody else. It's true that Zizek writes too many books, most of them are probably shit but fundamentally most of what he says is sound. I think also that much of his material is unfashionable to trendy faux-leftists anyway, and most of the attention you might see Zizek getting is from irony communism memes or whatever the fuck you want to call that kind of shit. I mean, honestly, how many of these yuppies do you think have read Lacan, or Hegel? I doubt they've even read Zizek.

>>12300497
>>12300503
Samefag, but ok. Day of the rope would be the NatSocs I was alluding to. It comes from the Turner Diaries which were written by a leader of the Neo-Nazi movement in the 1990s (might have been the 1980s, the point is he's dead now). The NatSoc types tend to be the ones obsessed with revolutionary violence. They're usually the best read but also the dumbest.

>>12301041
fake... right?

>>12292484
If you’re a right winger, then no. If you’re a leftie, then still no.

>>12302006
what makes you think that?

>>12296067
The Will to Power is a book containing selectively reordered notes from Friedrich Nietzsche's notebooks, by his sister Elisabeth and Peter Gast.

>>12302913
desu Will to Power is dubious for understanding how nietzche actually thought, but still important for understanding the 20th century understandings of nietzche esp. among authoritarians

Bump!

>>12293653
>>12293912
>>12298862
>>12299214
I'm not sure I understand the hate for this one in particular, there are thousands of cultural studies books that are just close readings of films or other pieces of media.
what's with the uproar about this specific one?

>>12304143
Why do you always take this personally? Congratulations, you like media studies, most people think it’s pseudo-intellectual wankery.

>>12298726
Fishers analysis of English pop music is pretty good

Those books literally all look decent or earnestly cringey at worst

>>12292523
desu rarely see this kind of humor w any actual real jokes congrats

>>12294284
have you never considered that they genuinely dont want to live w just white people? that part of their motive is driven by 'if it was only whites here half or most of my friends would somehow have to be forcibly removed from my and their lives'?

>>12299909
>>12293639
yeah literally you just wrote a pretty genuine analysis?

>>12304354
If that was a 'genuine' analysis to you then I don't see why so much hate on Zero Books

>>12304361
I didnt

>>12304383
>>12304354
didnt hate on them i mean

more like zero edition

>>12304222
I'm just saying, it seems like a weird and harmless one to single out, compared to dozens of books published by zero that seem much worse.
thousands of books exactly like this exist, so I feel like it's a strange target given shit like >>12301041 is being posted in this thread.

>>12304431
honestly that one sounds infinitely more interesting than deconstructing pop media shit.

>>12304431
it just feels like something you would think about in 5 minutes and write it just because you can, not because anybody cares

>>12297078
I discovered 4chan through Kill All Normies.
What kind of person do you imagine?

>>12304725
someone whose twitter pfp is their own face, late 20s, laughs at dril posts without even understanding what they're making fun of

>>12304405
Heh

u guys suck. a publisher is trying to discover the contemporary philosophy, and you faggots dismiss them all just by the cover.

>>12305514
K

>>12305514
t. a seething John Hunt

How much longer till Late Capitalism is no more, lads?

>>12308106
one more generation of wealthy people blogging about it and it's TOAST

>>12308106
forever as the left has lost it revoultionary spirit

>>12308106
i give it 30 years. then the world will come very close to a possible environmental collapse and it'll all go down in WW3, its end being a huge social shift that'll be the end of capitalism

>>12308106
After the death of the environment I guess.
Late capitalism is fucking everyone in the ass so much that soon we'll start to like it.
Neoconservatism and neoliberalism, though contradictory, will work together to push us to such a stage of desiring/consuming immanence that all culture and notions of self will be eradicated. All that will be left is one perpetual act of capital ass-fucking.

>>12308304
EMBRACE ASS-FUCKING CAPITAL

>>12293430
>>12293425
>>12293317
>>12293349
such pathetic samefagging (inb4 screencap with disproves nothing)

>>12308132
>>12308283
and what will come after?

>>12308422
Ocasio-Cortezism with third world characteristics

>>12294121
got taught a class by this guy in uni once. totally joyless, cold, devoid of passion or vitality; dead behind the eyes. i'm not even against lefties per se but these types are of an order beneath even the bugmen, i'm sorry to say.

>>12308283
the forces that propel capitalism will continue long after ww3. when capitalism has nothing material left to exploit, people will become capital.

>>12308595
I believe it. Watch Mark Fisher lecture, he looks like he's on the brink of ending it all.

>>12308346
Damn lol. I literally cant prove that I'm not samefagging because I posted those stories while using tor. It doesnt show me the (you)s next to my post number :(

>>12292842
that's not a trip you faggot

>>12309171
well he did kill himself last year

>>12308595
>totally joyless, cold, devoid of passion or vitality; dead behind the eyes

sounds lit as fuck. maybe reddit is more your speed?

>>12308595
So the exact opposite of what you criticize bugmen for is an order beneath them?

>>12308657
A word, please

Verso because they're actually taken seriously

>>12292484
dunno chief, Capitalist Realism is pretty good

>>12310612
Indeed, my favorite part was when he analyzed Wall-E, I love that movie!

>>12310657
faggot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCD3hg6OEQw

>>12310661
See the difference between Zizek and Fisher is that Zizek delivers his pop culture analysis with a sense of humor, which is what should be included when analyzing pop culture. Fisher, by contrast, is so humorless in his analysis that it just seems like he takes himself way too seriously and has no self-awareness of what he is actually doing.

>>12300448
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditionalist_School?wprov=sfla1
also idealistic rather than materialistic. Not him btw.
We may be more anti-capitalist than whatever "the left" is sure.

>>12310472
there's nothing more reddit than depression

>>12302967
Balanced response, I endorse.

>>12293539
>cognitive dissonance and insincerity the (mainstream)
AKA hypocrisy
The right and left are both in agreement on Social Darwinism - the religion of the Ruling Class

>>12294188
>feminism worked
When? How?

>>12310986
worked as in succeeded in spreading and being taken seriously by mainstream culture and not just fringe culture

>>12310994
>worked
I meant in the sense of being functional. The Nazis "worked" also, in the sense of being taken seriously, etc.

>>12311126
well i don't think feminism can ever work because i don't consider feminism even an ideology, it's just a bunch of tactics used to push certain things in the direction of social degradation that most of the time don't even benefit women in any meaningful sense

>>12296706
Where and when can i read your article?

>>12311278
Zero Books.

>>12292674
Disregard that, I suck cocks

>>12296706
I would read this.

>>12292523
I'm gay and I still keked

>>12292933
Oh SHIT, quite literally.

Seething r*ghtoids

>>12297530
Who warned of this I want to read it. Sauce ?

>>12292523

Hello M(r)z. Haile-Yohannes,

I recently submitted my first treatise "Stepford Whites: Gentrification on Vacation" for review to the Zero Books editorial staff, and it was rejected for publications. I'm wondering if you could offer some advice for coping with such a triggering event. I was advised by other authors to just resubmit, as editing my work would be a form of internalized submission to the bigoted power structure being used against me. Hope to hear some advice.

Transcerely,

Mmungo Yu-Yao Wowee-Zowee

>>12294121
>In one alternative world, instead of the grim authoritarian and autarkic states of the East, socialist revolution in the world’s most advanced economies ushers in an era of global peace, progress and prosperity
>the early achievement of socialism leads to a drastic improvement in human progress, economic growth, democracy and freedom at the global level.
did anyone here read this? it seems incoherent

>>12292933
Wow...
Powerfull

>>12292674
Shut up, fatass. Have you lost any weight over the years?

>>12297530
Good critique, senpai. Couldn't have said it any better.