0:30 Book 1: The Next Shift 3:55 Book 2: Minima Moralia 7:10 Book 3: Horror in Architecture 8:50 Book 4: When Nietzsche Wept 10:34 Book 5: How It All Began 12:56 Book 6: Women, The State & Revolution 16:55 Book 7: The Commissariat of Enlightenment 20:00 Book 8: The Philosophy of Sartre 21:10 Book 9: Story of the Eye 22:49 Book 10: On Literature and Art

@baphomet9435

2 ай бұрын

You're a heroe without cape 👍

@bajes328

7 күн бұрын

@@baphomet9435 thank you

Re: Adorno. Despite his depessiveness and negativity I find some of his stuff the most... positive of Marxian-proximate thought. One of his remarks in one of his radio shows I see as the most powerful and most susinct characterization what leftists and socialists must battle against and strife for: "I want nothing other than for the world to be arranged in such a way that people are not its superfluous appendages, but rather that, in God's name, things exist for the sake of people and not people for the sake of the things that they also have have made themselves." If one wants to arrive at the emancipation of humankind, that, to me, is the positive principle to adhere to. Not to mention some... astonishingly adorable letters about wombats that do fly in the face of Adorno's general reputation.

@nwahally

2 ай бұрын

Addendum: In the letter he petitions the Frankfurt Zoo to aquire a Wombat couple (rough translation): "I remember these friendly and chubby animals with a lot of identification from my childhood and would be very happy if I was allowed to see them again."

@rob12231

2 ай бұрын

If Adorno were read and judged by his Introduction to Dialectics, rather than his writings on culture, then some leftist discourse would be much more productive, I think. He's severely misunderstood in many quarters, and not because he's misread necessarily but that he's not read at all, merely talked over in some online spaces. I should add: anyone attempting to read Adorno on his own terms (as it should be with any first approach) should just proceed straight to the translated lecture series-multiple volumes are available in English, pick the subject that interests you. Here you will find the most lucid and comprehensible Adorno.

@bce6936

2 ай бұрын

That's pretty cute. Where did you find these radio transmissions and personal letters?

@nwahally

2 ай бұрын

I find Adorno beyond important, but also at times insufferable. Few things I find as ridiculous as his disdain for Jazz and love for Twelve-Tone-Technique. The man could certainly be obnoxious at times, despite his incredible societal analysis. In general I find it difficult to find translations of his more obscure texts, if there are any at all. Also his... notorious writing-style makes translation challenging.@@rob12231

I WAS LITERALLY JUST TRYING TO REMEMBER THE STORY OF THE EYE TODAY LOL THANK YOUUU

@FireFortProductions

2 ай бұрын

𝓱𝓮𝓵𝓵𝓸 𝓫𝓻𝓸❤

That was an extremely interesting list! My year is going to be very busy, but I sure would love to read some of those.

Sebastian Haffner's book on the German revolution of 1918 ended up being one of my favorite books of last year (per your recommendation) so I'll definitely check some of these out again!

I’ll definitely be reading The Next Shift.. it sounds like the story of my hometown, Pittsburgh, and something that might even reflect the history of my family in the area (grandfather was a steelworker, I work in healthcare, etc). I wonder if it talks about UPMC at all? I guess I’ll find out!

Nice book list! Thank you!

have you read many books on education? I am involved in developing the pedagogical theory at an experimental K-12 school, and looking for good books to read and share with my coworkers and students. thank you!

Would love some more Deleuze content if you were interested/have the time. Also, what is your opinion on Pierre Bourdieu if you’ve looked into his work much. He’s my second favorite thinker after D&G

@LilVukie

2 ай бұрын

Also, first

@jonasceikaCCK

2 ай бұрын

Have wanted to get into Bourdieu for a long time but haven't had the chance yet, would like to do a video on him eventually though!

@Sazi_de_Afrikan

2 ай бұрын

@@jonasceikaCCKBourdieu is heat! Definitely worth a read! “invitation to Reflexive Sociology” and “Language Symbolic and Power” are excellent

@LilVukie

2 ай бұрын

@@jonasceikaCCKOne of my professors is a leading expert in Bourdieu studies (he’s written some interesting articles connecting him and Lacan), and he even was on the committee for Loïc Wacquant’s PhD dissertation. His recommendation for the best place to begin with Bourdieu is An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology by Bourdieu and Wacquant

@gavinyoung-philosophy

2 ай бұрын

We love D&G

Honestly, the history of the communist movement between 1917-1927 is so sad. The civil war in Russia, the failure of the German revolution, Shanghai massacre, the first red scare in the US, fascism in Italy and the eventual rise of Stalinism.

@jonasceikaCCK

2 ай бұрын

Absolutely

@glebperch7585

2 ай бұрын

What's your problem with Stalin?

@mrthatguyam

2 ай бұрын

​@@glebperch7585 I remember when I was 13

@GrenzTruppenWard

2 ай бұрын

​@glebperch7585 betrayed the communist movement and completely changed the definition of socialism. He and his clique are one of the reasons why many governments which claim to be "aes" run the way they do now

@communist754

2 ай бұрын

​@@glebperch7585he was not as bad as portrayed in the West, but not good, either. Many critical mistakes were made, which to a large extent contributed to the eventual fall of socialism.

Ive been waiting for this for 2 months lets gooooo Im very excited about this one

I was waiting for this!

great list 👍🏼

10:40 For the subject of left=wing terrorism, I can recommend Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla by Canadian anarchist Ann Hansen, it is a recount of her experiences before, during and after her involvement in the group Canadian urban guerrilla group Squamish Five

Hey cck, sorry to ask, but do you have any recommendations of any theorists of the past 2 years who have written about Mark Fishers works as itll be incredibly relevant as in britain there has undergone a massive resurgence in trade union action and membership which has resulted in an unprecidented level of class struggle in the last 2 years. I still think hes correct and we havent escaped hauntaology and even controversially amoung my associates i dont think we've fully escaped the recuporation of capitalist realism, but i think there is now holes in the impenetrable barrier that is allowing real air to come back in. Wishing for any theorists/writers who have written similar or opposing thoughts on this subject. Also (last request sorry) but any methods you have of finding such interesting niche modern and historical books/writters? Ive only been able to find some theorists on my own via just relying on internet searches and word of mouth

I’m glad to see Tendies123 is still a patron after all these years 😂

@Peter-rh2gn

2 ай бұрын

I want some chiggin tendies

@jonasceikaCCK

2 ай бұрын

God bless them

I love "The Story Of The Eye"!

@VelhoTeste

2 ай бұрын

YESSSSS GEORGES BATAILLE MENTIONED! (And it's not in the context of Red Flood)

@torcaace

2 ай бұрын

at least they'll fix him in the new update@@VelhoTeste

super interesting, thanks for the list!

Did you read any books on Palestine this year? My end of year reading list was mostly books on Palestine. Great list btw, I’m pretty eager to check out the Trotsky book.

Loved the book reviews Jonas. Do more :)

HISTOIRE DE L’OEIL 🔥🔥🔥

can't wait for the next vid! keep it up!

I really appreciate your recommendations and I'll definitely be checking my parents' bookshelves for Adorno books! Trying to figure out if I had actually read any of his books I ended up finding a Reader on Minima Moralia with a Contribution from Jürgen Habermas and I found out that he is actually still alive! So now I want to reread Habermas and start on Adorno thanks to your video! Super stoked!

@kimcarsons7036

2 ай бұрын

Habermas will be dead soon. And given he just put his weight behind Israel, its clear his intellect is failing him considerably, to put it mildly

Loved the summary.

Yay! Another book list, thanks!

YEEEEES CCK 🥰

Story of the Eye is my favorite fiction book. The big downside to that is that it's sometimes difficult to recommend to people

Hey, I just finished your book. I became completely enveloped in it, finishing it in just over a week. It really has shaken my pre-existing schemas and made a big impact on me. Thank you for creating such a wonderful book and got my friend a copy whom I'm sure will love as much as I did!

My fav youtuber❤❤

@JesusOnHeroin

2 ай бұрын

mine too

@Peter-rh2gn

2 ай бұрын

Same

*These two texts are required this year for Jonas Ceika & all other intellectuals:* Against Intellectuals Monopoly, by Michele Boldrin & David K. Levine; Against Intellectual Property, by Stephan Kinsella. All types of intellectual property (IP) laws must be fully abolished immediately, in any and all jurisdictions worldwide. All IP laws are extremely unethical for humankind. As an aside, IP laws were relatively young at Karl Marx’s time. He was unaware of how they worked, so he didn’t address them at all or about how they negatively affect the working class. Against Intellectual Monopoly is the most informative book humanity has on the subject now. Against Intellectual Property is another incredible essay, but it’s written from a right-libertarian perspective so if you’re leftist like me you’ll have to read with an open mind and extract what’s helpful. _Only_ these two texts are the gold standard when it comes to intellectual property.

@Peter-rh2gn

2 ай бұрын

Absolutely ✊ These two texts blow all other texts out of the water when it comes to politico-economics

@user-wl2xl5hm7k

2 ай бұрын

@@Peter-rh2gn Agreed! ✊Thanks buddy

@renatlottiepilled

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the recommendation, I've been wanting to read more about intellectual property

@user-wl2xl5hm7k

2 ай бұрын

@@renatlottiepilledSure thing. These two are the most important. If after that you want a general info book on how IP laws work now, read the Examples and Explanations series book on Intellectual Property Law. The questions and answers help a lot. All unite to fully abolish all IP laws now ✊

@user-wl2xl5hm7k

2 ай бұрын

@@renatlottiepilledI also have a playlist (not _my_ videos) of *the* best videos on intellectual property laws on my channel for all interested.

What a great list!

If you are going to talk about left wing terrorism maybe mention the ALF (animal liberation front) who have an anarchist bend. They were taken quite seriously in the US at some point focusing mainly on economic sabotage

@Adamrhll

2 ай бұрын

its actions by the spectacle for the spectacle, this is the weak point in anarchism but anyways what we have left ?

@Sonji_S

2 ай бұрын

@@Adamrhll I don't think I agree. The point isn't to draw media attention but to cause economic sabotage

very interesting selection broski

Underrated channel, great work, always missed :)

Great video once again! Will you ever do a dive into the Dutch poet Henriette Roland Holst? She is criminally unknown but is an amazingly unique poet and Marxist from the rural Netherlands

I love your inclusion of 1199! Mainstream left-wing unionism (e.g. the work of Jane McAlevey, and the sorts of ideas shared by Labor Notes) owes a lot to the militancy of their healthcare workers' union. I think about their "advice to organizers" (the first page of McAlevey's No Shortcuts) every time I engage with my union.

this is so funny, i just got into bataille a few months ago. glad to see him popping up on your channel! imo his essay on fascism is a must-read

@GrayYeonWannabe

2 ай бұрын

(i'm currently reading visions of excess)

Anyone read Nietzsche the vicious circle? Would you recommend it?

can you make a public list with the books you've read? I keep coming back to your videos of books you've read to see some I might like to read

I dont know if i agree with that reading of the purpose of minima moralia (that such violent critique is the first step to imagining a new world) considering his negative dialectics that was all about calling anyone with enough desperation to try and change things a cringe (like, say, Angela Davis whom lamented wanted to become an activist and not stick to philosophy, or the student activists he was calling the cops on for protesting the conservative right nature of west germany) and saying that they put praxis over thinking in the dialectic, which should have a privileged associal position Would love seeing you delve into adorno more because i feel like his contradictions are very indicative of the best and worst behaviors of being a "leftist" in the heart of the empire

I read that manifesto Trotsky wrote with Breton when I was 17 (according to my teacher RIvera had little to do with the final text), it made a huge impact on me but never read it again since then (25 years ago that is). Maybe it's time to read it again together with his other texts on art.

My next video is going to be a defense of the French reign of terror, so our next videos will be kind of related

@nelsonrosasaguilera3425

2 ай бұрын

Awesome chanel dude, subscribed!

My 10 favourite books I read in 2023: 1. The English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi (Ned Fletcher) 2. Danger Music (Eddie Ayres) 3. Sex Work and the New Zealand Model: Decriminalization and Social Change (Lynzi Armstrong and Gillian Abel) 4. Braiding Sweetgrass (Robin Kimmerer) 5. Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking (Tyson Yunkaporta) 6. Country: Future, Fire, Future Farming (Bill Gammage and Bruce Pascoe) 7. Introducing Semiotics: A Graphic Guide (Paul Cobley & Litza Jansz) 8. Homage to Catalonia (George Orwell) 9. Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (David Graeber) 10. The Real Frank Zappa Book (Frank Zappa with Peter Occhiogrosso)

Excellent. Ty.

Adorno is such a balm. It's so easy to feel that you've gone insane when every direction seems to have the ghost of a better arrangement lurking in its foundations, and Adorno's texts are like an eloquent gesture to the truth of that impression. There's a poem by Hardy from around WW1, 'I Looked Up from My Writing', that brings this sentiment of a kind of shame in being the beneficiary of horrendous massacre abroad that I think brings together a flashpoint of this feeling -- it is, after all, easier to relate this feeling to loud incidence than to a continuous wasting churn, though the latter is the reality -- that I'm sure is active in many of us as the concentrated microcosm of colonial barbarousness that is Israel's genocide in Gaza continues. The last two stanzas of that poem, in which Hardy feels indicted by the full moon: ''And now I am curious to look Into the blinkered mind Of one who wants to write a book In a world of such a kind.' Her temper overwrought me, And I edged to shun her view, For I felt assured she thought me One who should drown him too.' Thank you for the video, your material is always very thoughtful and with great breadth.

Did you read the Crazy Frog book?

@jonasceikaCCK

2 ай бұрын

No but sounds awesome

@peacefulclipper

2 ай бұрын

@@jonasceikaCCK no, you are awesome!

❤

If your next video is going to cover left wing terrorism id be really interested to see if you cover and see your insights into Tiqqun/The Invisible Committee’s writings.

If I'm not mistaken, you have mentioned being married. Do you personally believe in the ideal of family abolition?

I've had Minima Moralia on my shelf for years. I'll take this as a sign to finally read it.

4:44, thats absolutely not true. He defended America and his Culture, especially against german nationalists, who proclaim the greatness of the german "Kultur". Obvious Text is Kultur and Culture by Adorno.

bless your soul for the links

daddy

You should make a StoryGraph account

Winant is pronounced like Wine-ent

@PunishedFelix

2 ай бұрын

I've been training him in secret

The key fact I remember about Adorno is that he was born just before the first flight of the Wright Brothers and died just after the Apollo 11 Moon landing

Adornians rise up

@Giuime

2 ай бұрын

contra adorno being “cynical” and “bitter” I implore you to read Gordon’s new book “a precarious happiness”

How do i purchase these books without getting on my local terrorist- list ?

@twoCleopatras

2 ай бұрын

😂 💯 Go read books in the library without checking them out

glad to see you're starting to read literature.

"Critique of *Practical* Reason"? You sure that's right?

@jtcornpone

2 ай бұрын

It's not right........the title is critique of dialectical reason

@fede2

2 ай бұрын

@@jtcornpone Yeah... sounds like he had it right the first time...

@jonasceikaCCK

2 ай бұрын

Goddammit, I said "Critique of Pure Reason" while first recording and then made another mistake changing it to "Practical Reason". I don't have enough brain cells left to hold in all those critiques of reason

Oh yes!!! Anither book list dropped!

Can you do a video on Altiero Spinelli?

hold on what was meant by the organs of the house as the horror of modernity. the externalization of sacredly held values and making them into axioms in a learned-vulnerability mechanizing kind of way?

I started The Accursed Share Volume 1, as well as Visions of Excess, Story of the Eye is disturbing, but I love it.

Standing at a Swedish festival?

Adorno kinda sounds like leftwing Céline

@thyno633

2 ай бұрын

best hater active in the past century

Honey, put everything on hold Jonas Ceika just released another video

Would love some leftist book for an Asia Prospective.

Well, that made me want to read Adorno. Or maybe i shouldn't ? I'm stuck in the US, coming from "The Rest of the World". I have similar feelings to his. Oh my... Will I become an old and bitter man ? I need to escape that rotting hellhole, or start and write books.

@seb4510

2 ай бұрын

@m_idd Thanks a lot for that very thoughtful answer. I wrote down your recommendations and will check what I can get my hands on. Cheers.

Why don't you get into academia? Does this give you more fulfillment? At this point you are most surely well read enough to do so, or to at least start.

This video is so late I assumed Jonas had already released this video this year.

Why is existentialism not compatible with marxism according to Warnock ?

@jonasceikaCCK

2 ай бұрын

Because, in her view, whereas existentialism begins from the individual's ontological freedom and first-person phenomenological analysis, Marxism begins from the social and material/economic analysis

@annaturquoise7114

2 ай бұрын

@@jonasceikaCCKCyberpunk is quite literally an example of existentialism merged w Marxism, bruh I love someone, I feel free -> why is the world so fucked up and can’t we be free -> I want to protect them from the world (concerned about social injustice)

You read trotsky? I love Trotsky! That one is a good read.

Adorno's book is like The Trouble with Being Born through a Marxist lens then? lol

Funny how you add a voice over to correct a wrong name, with another wrong name at 21:08 . It is dialectical, not practical.

Do NOT make a video on Twords jesus man not a good call

theres such a sadness hearing about how bulshvaks with public dining, trying to get rid of nuclear family, abortion, schools that are ran by students with applied praxis, makes me sad how such world could have been,

don't care

My favorite Adorno's quote is actually "cars are fascist"