Summary: Grafton Tanner is a writer and musician from Georgia. His writing has appeared in Paste magazine, Film Matters, and The Blue Indian, and his debut book, Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts, was published by Zero Books on June 24, 2016 Thanks go out to Mir B, Seamus M, Paul H, Mathieu D, Brad P, Dave W, and Nigel W as they are the first members of the Zero Books Club which officially started on September 2nd. Zero Books members gain access to our new Inside Zero Books Podcast. This is a second hour of the Zero Books podcast every week that will feature conversations about the left and left publishing with members of the Zero Books editorial team. That is they’ll hear from Ashley Frawley, Douglas Lain, C Derick Varn, and Alfie Bown as well as they dicuss political theory and/or the ups and downs of radical publishing within a clickbait culture. Inside Zero Books will also fearute interviews with radical thinkers and authors from around the world. Zero Books Club members will also be invited to participate in bi-monthly online workshops in critical theory or philosophy run by Zero Books authors. Upcoming workshops will feature Daniel Coffeen and Mike Watson who will lead discussions on Deleuze and Conceptual and Radical Art respectively. Members get access to audio books from our Advancing Conversations book series on a quarterly basis. Upcoming titles include conversations with longevity researcher Aubrey de Grey, satirical novelist Geoff Nicholson, and Zippy the Pinhead cartoonist Bill Griffith. Members will also receive promotional discounts on selected Zero Books titles and the knowledge that they’re supporting an international Critical Theory and Left Politics publisher, one that the Guardian described as “One of the most exciting radical presses of the moment.” Please do join. This episode includes an advertisement for the Macintosh Plus, a clip from the Internet Club’s hit Pacific, a clip from Chuck Person’s Eccojams volume 1, a Cabin in the Woods Collage, and the newly invented Vaporwave Nike Revolution with George Carlin, and Grafton Tanner’s Rising from the Past.
