The Non-Dupes Err with Tom Syverson
Tom Syverson, author of the new book Reality Squared, makes the case for why reality TV is an essential form for grasping our bewildering contemporary panorama.
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Tom Syverson (@syvology on Twitter), author of the new book Reality Squared, makes the case for why reality TV is the essential cultural form for grasping our bewildering contemporary panorama. More broadly, we discuss the problem of how to undertake a materialist analysis of culture in the face of an increasingly dematerialized and abstract economic reality, and the related problems confronting materialist politics in the present.
Buy Tom's book:
https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/reality-squared-reality-tv-left-politics
Read Tom's recent essay on the limitations of materialist politics:
https://www.thebellows.org/culture-politics-and-the-unreal-economy/
Read Tom's other work: