Latest News: Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category

“The pandemic is only a test for the real crisis” — PANDEMIC! 2 author Slavoj Žižek interviewed in the Berliner Zeitung

Friday, February 12th, 2021

“Star philosopher Slavoj Zizek has been pondering over Covid-19. He wants to be vaccinated yesterday and sees this as a historical turning point.”

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“A bold presentiment” — PANDEMIC! reviewed in Entropy

Friday, February 12th, 2021
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“An adventurous proposal to seize the Covid-19 crises as, in the words of Saskia Sassen, ‘an invitation to think.'” — EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE! reviewed in Modern Times Review

Friday, February 12th, 2021

“A gathering of influential voices from around the world to weigh in on the progressive possibilities in the wake of COVID-19.”

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“On Climate, Biden’s Administration Needs to Combat Zombie Trumpism Quickly” — REDISCOVERING EARTH contributor Bill McKibben writes for the New Yorker

Tuesday, February 9th, 2021
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“Writers [have] imagined drowned worlds for centuries — what they tell us about the future” — REDISCOVERING EARTH contributor Kim Stanley Robinson featured in Salon

Tuesday, February 9th, 2021

“How might life be different in a drowned world? Literature is an inevitably rich guide.”

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“The Dangers of Surveillance Capitalism” — EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE! contributor Shoshana Zuboff interviewed on Bloomberg

Tuesday, February 9th, 2021

“Why Electric Vehicles Will Not Save the Planet” — PEOPLE’S POWER author Ashley Dawson writes for the Thought Project

Tuesday, February 9th, 2021

“Electric vehicles are the primary element in contemporary green capitalist fantasy.”

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“Mike Davis’s forecast for the left” — THE MONSTER ENTERS featured in the Nation

Tuesday, February 9th, 2021

“Along with human agents subjugated, disorganized, and subject to brutal weather in impoverished areas, Davis pointed to another terrifying development within the earth’s ecology: plagues, which he examined in his 2005 book on the avian flu, republished in 2020 as The Monster Enters: COVID-19 and the Plagues of Capitalism. As he had done with so many other harbingers of impending apocalypse, Davis sounded the alarm about a potential pandemic long before it hit.”

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“Slavoj Zizek Explains Himself” — PANDEMIC! 2 author interviewed by Douglas Lain for Zero Books

Tuesday, February 9th, 2021

“An intimate and detailed account of the business of grey legal marijuana.” — THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING author Matt Taibbi interviewed on Stoner

Friday, February 5th, 2021

“The Horrible Politics of 1,400 Dollar Checks” — AMERICAN MONSTROSITY author Nathan Robinson writes for Current Affairs

Friday, February 5th, 2021

“Why on earth would Democrats not pass $2,000 checks as promised?”

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“Reclaiming the energy commons” — PEOPLE’S POWER author Ashley Dawson interviewed on UpFront

Friday, February 5th, 2021

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“The links between the world of literature and the U.S. surveillance apparatus” — FINKS author Joel Whitney interviewed on Scheer Intelligence

Friday, February 5th, 2021

“Gamestopped: WallStreetBets, Wall Street wins” — MY TURN author Doug Henwood in conversation with Maximillian Alvarez, Kate Aronoff, and Edward Ongweso, Jr. for the Real News Network

Friday, February 5th, 2021

“A welcome, lyrical defense of ‘coaxing a beautiful thing out of the ground and bringing it to your door.'” — THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING reviewed in the Bohemian

Thursday, February 4th, 2021

“…[and] a gonzo journalist’s account of life in these United States during the turbulent Trump years.”

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“The zeitgeist has begun to shift — our sense of what’s normal, and natural, and obvious” — REDISCOVERING EARTH contributor Bill McKibben interviewed on WGBH

Thursday, February 4th, 2021

“But Climate Crisis Is Dire As Ever, Warns Environmentalist Bill McKibben.”

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“Surveillance capitalism and the role social media plays in disinformation” — EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE! contributor Shoshana Zuboff interviewed on Morning Joe

Thursday, February 4th, 2021

“The Coup We Are Not Talking About” — EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE! contributor Shoshana Zuboff writes for the New York Times

Thursday, February 4th, 2021

“We can have democracy, or we can have a surveillance society, but we cannot have both.”

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“Populism in the pandemic age” — PANDEMIC! featured in the New Statesman

Thursday, February 4th, 2021

“Will the Covid-19 crisis fuel populism, or extinguish it?”

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“An unquestionably dynamic thinker… Reading Zizek on the pandemic provides the rare opportunity for many readers to engage with a philosopher through a shared experience on close to a global level” — PANDEMIC! reviewed in Full Stop

Thursday, February 4th, 2021

As the pandemic wears on in the US, Zizek’s predictions turn ominous specifically because the commonsense changes are still being avoided.

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“What Would a 21st-Century Federal Writers Project Look Like?” — THE DEEP END excerpt published on Full Stop

Thursday, February 4th, 2021

This piece was originally published in Full Stop Reviews Supplement #6.

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“Radical as reality itself” — MOVING THE BAR author Michael Ratner discussed by Chris Hedges and Michael Smith on On Contact

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021

“Yanis Varoufakis with Russell Brand: The Working Class VS Social Justice Warriors” — EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE! contributor interviewed on Under the Skin

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021

“‘It does contain elements of a popular movement’ – Yanis Varoufakis on GameStop” — EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE! contributor interviewed on Channel 4 News

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021

“After Trump, the crisis: White America at the historical crossroads” — THE SINKING MIDDLE CLASS author David Roediger interviewed for Salon

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021

“On the choice facing white Americans: Social democracy, or follow Trump into the abyss.”

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“Manufacturing dissent” — HATE INC author Matt Taibbi interviewed on Capitalisn’t

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021

“Matt Taibbi on the need for change in American media” — HATE INC author interviewed on NewsNation

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021

“There are two things about bubbles. They always go on longer than you think, but they do eventually burst” — MY TURN author Doug Henwood interviewed for New York Magazine

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021

“When that inevitably happens, the average Redditor ‘will be left holding the bag,’ he added.”

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“Unpacking GameStop’s Stock & Wall Street’s Future” — MY TURN author Doug Henwood interviewed on the Daily Show

Friday, January 29th, 2021

“You always think you can get out before it falls apart” — LOCKDOWN IN HELL WORLD author Luke O’Neil interviews MY TURN author Doug Henwood for Welcome to Hell World

Friday, January 29th, 2021

“The stock market is insanely overvalued—at a time when many are struggling to put food on the table. It’s grotesque. The difference between the stock market and economic reality is so wide.”

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