Valley of Malls: Post-Fordist Cities & Political Repression, Part Two

Combat 18, Part 3: Crisis of Ladsculinity w/ Gareth Watkins

This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon [http://patreon.com/BloodWorkShow/]. Gareth returns to continue our history of ‘90s Britain’s most notorious neo-nazi gang, recounting the time Will Browning convinced a Scandinavian to mail a package bomb to an Olympic swimmer. Image: Thomas Nakaba marching at a far-right rally in Copenhagen, Denmark, in the 1990s. Blood Work is a Scam Goldin Production [https://www.instagram.com/scamgoldin/]This episode was produced by Thomas O’Mahony Our theme song is ‘Dream Weapon’ by Genghis Tron Our artwork is provided courtesy of KT Kobel [https://www.instagram.com/endless.fuckery/] For more: – Support Blood Work via Patreon [http://patreon.com/BloodWorkShow] – Follow us on Bluesky [http://bsky.app/profile/bloodwork.show] / Instagram [http://instagram.com/bloodworkshow] / Twitter [http://twitter.com/bloodworkshow] THIS WEEK IN VIOLENCE: Protecting the Organism [https://www.patreon.com/posts/this-week-in-159094058?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link]ALSO AVAILABLE IN AUDIO [https://www.patreon.com/posts/this-week-in-159093954?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link]This week we’ve got a recent report from the BBC regarding activities by a para-state political organisation in Russia which appears to be assuming ever greater policing and security prerogatives within that state amidst the exceptional situation of the war on Ukraine – and becoming further radicalised and emboldened in the process.

Do Your Own Research: Conspiracy, Paranoia & the Drive to Violence w/ Julian Feeld

Do Your Own Research: Conspiracy, Paranoia & the Drive to Violence w/ Julian Feeld Julian and Gregk discuss the history of conspiracy, lone wolves, mass psychoses, and his new show SUPER STRUCTURE on the power of propaganda, political repression & revolutionary struggle. If you enjoyed this episode: – Support Blood Work via Patreon [http://patreon.com/BloodWorkShow]– Leave a rating or review on your podcast app – Follow us on Bluesky [http://bsky.app/profile/bloodwork.show] / Instagram [http://instagram.com/bloodworkshow] / Twitter [http://twitter.com/bloodworkshow] Image: ‘Pizzagate’ gunman Edgar Maddison Welch being apprehended by police shortly after storming the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in Washington D.C. on December 4, 2016. (Sathi Soma/AP) Follow Julian Feeld [https://www.instagram.com/julianfeeld/] on Instagram Learn more about SUPER STRUCTURE [https://superstructurepodcast.com/] at their website or follow the show [https://www.instagram.com/superstructurepodcast/] on Instagram Blood Work is a Scam Goldin Production [https://www.instagram.com/scamgoldin/]This episode was produced by Thomas O’Mahony Our theme song is ‘Dream Weapon’ by Genghis Tron Our artwork is provided courtesy of KT Kobel [https://www.instagram.com/endless.fuckery/] THIS WEEK IN VIOLENCE: Before the Law [https://www.patreon.com/posts/this-week-in-law-158432735?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link]ALSO AVAILABLE IN AUDIO [https://www.patreon.com/posts/this-week-in-law-158493189?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link]This week, Gregk presents three separate news stories which each communicate different but interrelated ideas about the relation between law and violence, particularly in our present conjuncture.

Valley of Malls: Post-Fordist Cities & Political Repression, Part Two

This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon [http://patreon.com/BloodWorkShow/]. We conclude our two-parter with a story that runs through Lewis Powell, Times Square, 9/11 and Occupy, and concludes by considering a vanguard of neoliberal authoritarianism: The Olympics. Image: An interior shot of the amusement park at Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota Blood Work is a Scam Goldin Production [https://www.instagram.com/scamgoldin/]This episode was produced by Thomas O’Mahony Our theme song is ‘Dream Weapon’ by Genghis Tron Our artwork is provided courtesy of KT Kobel [https://www.instagram.com/endless.fuckery/] For more: – Support Blood Work via Patreon [http://patreon.com/BloodWorkShow] – Follow us on Bluesky [http://bsky.app/profile/bloodwork.show] / Instagram [http://instagram.com/bloodworkshow] / Twitter [http://twitter.com/bloodworkshow] THIS WEEK IN VIOLENCE: Cóndor Dos, Águila Moribunda [https://www.patreon.com/posts/this-week-in-dos-157826871?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link]ALSO AVAILABLE IN AUDIO [https://www.patreon.com/posts/this-week-in-dos-157859597?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link]For this week’s newsletter, we’ve got two news stories for you, which are separate, but which are nonetheless connected in a strange, poetic way. Collectively, we think they say something about the current condition of US empire, and what happens when imperial ambitions extend beyond even empire’s grasp.

Mean Streets: Post-Fordist Cities & Political Repression, Part One

In the first of a two-parter, we trace the evolution of the modern city from industrialisation to the 1970s, when a trio of crises laid the foundation for an anti-political backlash If you enjoyed this episode: – Support Blood Work via Patreon [http://patreon.com/BloodWorkShow]– Leave a rating or review on your podcast app – Follow us on Bluesky [http://bsky.app/profile/bloodwork.show] / Instagram [http://instagram.com/bloodworkshow] / Twitter [http://twitter.com/bloodworkshow] Image: A photograph taken on Leyden Street, London, during the 1979 ‘Winter of Discontent’ (Source: Maurice Hibberd/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Blood Work is a Scam Goldin Production [https://www.instagram.com/scamgoldin/]This episode was produced by Thomas O’Mahony Our theme song is ‘Dream Weapon’ by Genghis Tron Our artwork is provided courtesy of KT Kobel [https://www.instagram.com/endless.fuckery/] THIS WEEK IN VIOLENCE: Even in Death, They Will Still Degrade You [https://www.patreon.com/posts/this-week-in-in-157193071?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link]ALSO AVAILABLE IN AUDIO [https://www.patreon.com/posts/this-week-in-in-157235123?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link]For this week’s newsletter, Gregk uses a resurfaced comment by filmmaker Joe Russo from 2023 to provide some commentary on the modern AI craze and the historical ties between technology, pornography, and violence.   Sources: Robert A. Beauregard (2006), When America Became Suburban Jordan T. Camp & Christina Heatherton [eds.] (2016), Policing the PlanetL Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter Peter Eisinger (2000), ‘The Politics of Bread and Circuses: Building the City for the Visitor Class’, Urban Affairs Review [35:3] Antonio Gramsci (1971), Selections from the Prison Notebooks Stuart Hall et al (1978), Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order Margaret Kohn (2004), Brave New Neighborhoods: The Privatisation of Public Space Mark Neocleous (2021), A Critical Theory of Police Power Paul A. Passavant (2021), Policing Protest: The Post-Democratic State and the Figure of Black Insurrection

Intermezzo: Extraction/Consequences

This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon [http://patreon.com/BloodWorkShow/]. Gregk and Thomas pause to reflect on some of the topics covered since they last spoke, and meditate on recent events. Image: A still from Werner Herzog’s 1992 documentary Lessons of Darkness Blood Work is a Scam Goldin Production [https://www.instagram.com/scamgoldin/]This episode was produced by Thomas O’Mahony Our theme song is ‘Dream Weapon’ by Genghis Tron Our artwork is provided courtesy of KT Kobel [https://www.instagram.com/endless.fuckery/] For more: – Support Blood Work via Patreon [http://patreon.com/BloodWorkShow] – Follow us on Bluesky [http://bsky.app/profile/bloodwork.show] / Instagram [http://instagram.com/bloodworkshow] / Twitter [http://twitter.com/bloodworkshow] THIS WEEK IN VIOLENCE: Look What They Made Us Do [https://www.patreon.com/posts/this-week-in-us-156516080?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link]ALSO AVAILABLE IN AUDIO [https://www.patreon.com/posts/this-week-in-us-156565746?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link]For this week’s newsletter, we use a recent piece from The New Republic to question America’s flailing attempts to disentangle itself from a war of its own making – in narrative, if not in actuality.