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Zero Squared #103: Norman Finkelstein on Academic Freedom
Norman Finkelstein is a controversial figure on the left and he’s the guest this week. However, while Finkelstein is famous for his books about the Israel/Palestine conflict, we don’t discuss that topic, but instead discuss a book he’s working on entit...
Zero Squared #102: When Insurrections Die
C. Derick Varn is a reader at Zero Books, a poet, blogger and podcaster. His podcasts have included Symptomatic Redness and Former People and he is a frequent guest on Zero Squared. This week we discuss Gilles Dauve’s essay “When Insurrections Die” and...
Inside Zero Books #26: The Multitude
This week's Inside Zero Books Andy Marshall and Doug Lain continue their analysis of Hardt and Negri's book "Empire," only through a second book by Paolo Virno. Specifically they discuss the introduction to Virno's book A Grammar of the Multitude. That in
C Derick Varn & Nadim Bakhshov in Conversation (pt 1)
C. Derick Varn is an emerging poet, professional teacher, and arm-chair theorist. He currently lives in Egypt, previously spent two years in Northern Mexico and three years in South Korea, but is originally from the deep South of the United States.
Zero Squared #101: Musicology
Joanna Demers is the guest this week and next week she will lead a Zero Books Club workshop on youtube. You are invited to join the Zero Books club and to join Demers as she explains the interpretive strategies of contemporary musicology and how these ...
Inside Zero Books #25: Islamophobia and Secularism
This conversation with KMO of the C-Realm about Islamophobia and secular values attempts to take on contradictions within the US and Europe. Ideas are examined and interrogated, positions are tried on and discarded. KMO is the host of the C-Realm podcast
Zero Squared #100: On Antifa
Peter Berard is a doctoral candidate in history at Boston College. He is also a writer for publications such as Jacobin and the LA Review of books. Berard and I discuss the Black Bloc and Antifa tactics in an effort to take a more sympathetic look at t...
Inside Zero Books #24: Symptomatic Redness with Sasha Day
Sasha Day studies the intellectual, social and cultural history of peasants, food and agrarian change in China. He teaches Chinese, East Asian and World History at Occidental College. This week's Inside Zero Books podcast features an interview with Sasha
Zero Squared #99: America Stalled
Kris Saknussemm is a novelist and a multimedia artist. He has published ten books including Zanesville, Sea Monkeys, and Private Midnight. As a short story writer he has won First Prize in the Boston Review and River Styx Short Fiction Contests,
Inside Zero Books #23: Fredrick and Brendan Unedited
This Inside Zero Books podcast is a few days late. It is the promised unedited audio of the interviews with Brendan O'Neill and Fredrick DeBoer on the topic of punching Nazis and left tactics. Also available this week is a new Zero Books youtube video: Th