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

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

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.

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!

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

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!

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

Nice book list! Thank you!

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.

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

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

I was waiting for this!

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!

I love "The Story Of The Eye"!

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

great list 👍🏼

Loved the book reviews Jonas. Do more :)

super interesting, thanks for the list!

Yay! Another book list, thanks!

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

Loved the summary.

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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!

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Underrated channel, great work, always missed :)

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!

What a great list!

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

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

very interesting selection broski

bless your soul for the links

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

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

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.

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.

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

Excellent. Ty.

*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.

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

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

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

glad to see you're starting to read literature.

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

Can you do a video on Altiero Spinelli?

Oh yes!!! Anither book list dropped!

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.

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.

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

Did you read the Crazy Frog book?

You should make a StoryGraph account

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

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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)

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

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?

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

Winant is pronounced like Wine-ent

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.

Adornians rise up

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

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.

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.

Why is existentialism not compatible with marxism according to Warnock ?

Adorno kinda sounds like leftwing Céline

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

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

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

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

Standing at a Swedish festival?

Would love some leftist book for an Asia Prospective.

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.

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,

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

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

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