Is Life Worth Living?
September 22, 2018
26,572
1,027
262
4.85%
Search the Record
IndexedEvery word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
Zer0 Books and Repeater Media Episodes Around September 22, 2018
See what was published immediately before and after this episode.
17:21Now PlayingIs Life Worth Living?
Segments
YouTube Description
as posted by the channelSupport Zero Books on Patreon
This video is an attempt to tackle the question “Is Life Worth Living?” However, it ends up answering a different question, namely, “What sort of cultural/psychological structures must be either held onto or created if life is going to be meaningful?”
Excerpts from Eugene Thacker’s In The Dust of This Planet and Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism are featured. Thacker’s work is perhaps misread, but in what I hope is a creative and constructive way. There is an attempt to turn his pessimism inside out.
Zero Books Logo Animations and other animations donated by Brian Cole
Books Covered
Capitalist Realism
In the Dust of this Planet
Music and clips featured
Debussy plays Debussy | Clair de Lune (1913)
Lili Boulanger-Pie Jesu (Intro by Stan Brakhage)
Saint Saens: Danse Macabre/First Electrical Recording
Macintosh Plus 420
Faure plays Faure
Donated Guitar version of Macintosh Plus 420 by the Guests
National Anthem of USSR
Microchips Make My Head Hurt
In The Flesh Pink Floyd 8bit Version
Satie’s Gymnopédies
Support us on Patreon and get access to the Herding Cats: Capital Reading Group
Watch the most popular Zero Books episodes
Zero Books Manifesto:
The modern world is at an impasse. Disasters scroll across our smartphone screens and we’re invited to like, follow or upvote, but critical thinking is harder and harder to find. Rather than connecting us in common struggle and debate, the internet has sped up and deepened a long-standing process of alienation and atomization.
Zer0 Books wants to work against this trend.
Links & Promotions
Guests & Subjects Covered
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.