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Upgrade Listen Create Join/Sign in History Share this ... × ... By ... ... ... Copy Share to: Embed: Copy Select Player Style: Choose Size: Play automatically? Yes No Preview: Share episode Share podcast New Playlist Zero Squared a philosophy podcast from zero books Zero Squared #230: Is Electoralism a Dead End? Send to Friends | Leave a Comment | Download | Permalink March 16, 2020 11:14 AM PDT This week's Zero Squared Podcast was recorded on primary day, March 10th with Chris Cutrone from the Platypus Affiliated Society. We discussed his new essay "Why Not Trump Again?", the Sanders campaign, the Coronavirus, and what is left of the left. The Decline of Bernie Sanders and the Rise of Covid-19 Send to Friends | Leave a Comment | Download | Permalink March 12, 2020 10:50 PM PDT Pop the Left is a biweekly livestream with Douglas Lain, author of "Bash Bash Revolution" and publishing manager for Zero Books, and C Derick Varn, author of Apocalyptics and slush pile reader for Zero Books. This episode will cover the fast decline of the Bernie Sanders campaign, the Covid-19 global pandemic, and the future of the left and of liberal modernity. Super Tuesday Election Special Send to Friends | Leave a Comment | Download | Permalink March 05, 2020 03:16 PM PST We are mirroring this podcast from the Emancipation Network/Alpha to Omega podcast. "A very special Emancipation Network all-star panel with Ben Burgis of Zero Books discuss the recent poor showing by Bernie Sanders in the US primaries. What does it mean for politics? What does is mean for socialist/communist politics? Is Jake actually a meme?" Pop the Left: The Communist Manifesto (pt. 2) Send to Friends | Leave a Comment | Download | Permalink March 04, 2020 04:10 PM PST In this episode of Pop The Left, Derick and Doug discuss the background to the Communist Manifesto: What circles were Marx and Engels moving in during the 1840s? What were their demands? What did “socialism” and “communism” mean to them, and what was their relationship to republicanism? Stay tuned for part two! This is part two of the conversation. There remains about 20 minutes of chat that I will release for patreon supporters. Zero Squared #229: Indefinite Life Extension? (pt 2) Send to Friends | 1 Comment | Download | Permalink March 01, 2020 10:56 PM PST Aubrey De Grey is the founder of the SENS Research Foundation, an organization developing medical interventions to repair the damage the body does to itself over time. Stated more directly, Aubrey de Grey and his organization aim to defeat aging. In 2016 I interviewed him for the book "Advancing Conversations: Aubrey de Grey." here is the second part of the audio recording of that interview. It’s Sunday, March 1st, 2020 and I’m Douglas Lain the publisher of Zero Books and the host of this podcast. If you enjoy our podcasts support us on Patreon. Our Patreon supporters usually get access to two podcasts a week, audio versions of our youtube videos, as well as occasional Pop the Left specials. Zero Books book club members get access to Zero Books titles each month as well as a chance to join in a discussion with Zero Books authors. Pop the Left: The Communist Manifesto [teaser] Send to Friends | Leave a Comment | Download | Permalink February 26, 2020 10:04 PM PST In this episode of Pop The Left, Derick and Doug discuss the background to the Communist Manifesto: What circles were Marx and Engels moving in during the 1840s? What were their demands? What did “socialism” and “communism” mean to them, and what was their relationship to republicanism? Stay tuned for part two! Zero Squared #229: Indefinite Life Extension? [teaser] Send to Friends | Leave a Comment | Download | Permalink February 17, 2020 02:26 PM PST Aubrey De Grey is the founder of the SENS Research Foundation, an organization developing medical interventions to repair the damage the body does to itself over time. Stated more directly, Aubrey de Grey and his organization aim to defeat aging. In 2016 Douglas Lain interviewed him for the book "Advancing Conversations: Aubrey de Grey." The first part of the audio recording of that interview is available now for our Patreon supporters. Pop The Left #1 (pt 2): 1848 [teaser] Send to Friends | Leave a Comment | Download | Permalink February 12, 2020 12:15 PM PST Doug and Derick continue their discussion on the revolutions of 1848 and how the contemporary left is perhaps faced by issues and problems more analogous to the nineteenth century’s than those of the twentieth. In order to listen to the entirety of this episode support us on Patreon. Pop the Left #1: What Happened in 1848 Send to Friends | Leave a Comment | Download | Permalink February 06, 2020 12:24 PM PST In this episode of Pop The Left, Derick and Doug discuss the contradictions in premodern Europe that led to the revolutions of 1848 and give a rundown of the major events of that year. Stay tuned for part 2 for a more in-depth investigation of 1848 and its repercussions. The History of the American Left #1: Bourgeois Radicalism and the British Empire of Liberty Send to Friends | Leave a Comment | Download | Permalink February 02, 2020 04:15 PM PST Matt Cavagrotti is the host of a new Zero Books series with the straight forward title "The History of the American Left." The first episode features a conversation with Postdoctoral Fellow James Vaughn. Vaughn taught at the University of Texas at Austin and held a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University. His first book, The Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III (Yale, 2019), provides a revisionist account of British imperial expansion and politics during the eighteenth century. Another book, The East India Company and the English Revolution, c. 1640–1714 (Primus), will be out next year. Next Page Podcast Summary Zero Squared is a philosophy podcast from Zero Books. Zero publishes radical philosophy, aesthetics, film theory, experimental fiction, and anything else that smells faintly of the avant-garde. Our books aim not only to demonstrate how philosophical ideas are relevant to every day life, but also to change the terms of it. Douglas Lain is the host of this podcast and the publisher of Zero Books. He hosted the Diet Soap podcast out of this feed for five years. Zero Squared will continue the tradition of Diet Soap while giving Zero Books authors a chance to talk about their work. About Douglas Lain View Profile Douglas Lain is the publisher of zero books. He is also a novelist and podcaster. His novel “Billy Moon” tells the story of Christopher Robin Milne’s fictional involvement with the French general strike in May of 1968, and was published by Tor Books in 2013. Follow Share Podcast Favorite Links Douglas Lain Tor Books Black Agenda Report Dennis Perrin Philosophy Bites C-Realm Partially Examined Life Zero Books Subscribe to this Podcast RSS Feed Archive Feed...