David Graeber and David Harvey discuss their new books, Debt: The First 5000 Years, and Rebel Cities, respectively

Currencies are telling of our current time. Debt, labor, commodification, ownership, and consumerism structure and characterize contemporary life and academia. From the monetization and protection of intellectual property to the debts that students accrue, from the exploitation of adjunct labor to t

Slavoj Žižek visits Russell Sbriglia’s graduate seminar on “Literary Criticism and Ideology Critique.” From the Critical Theory youtube channel

Slavoj Zizek is the guest on The Zero Squared Podcast hosted by Douglas Lain as they discuss the flak he’s received for a few of his Lacanian interventions into politics recently, Marx’s Labor Theory of Value, and his most current book Against the Double Blackmail. Original Post: http://zero-books.net/blogs/zero/zero-squared-95-zizek-and-the-double-blackmail/