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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.

This is How You Kill Them: Genocide w/ Joe Kassabian

Joe and Gregk use Gregory Stanton’s ‘Ten Stages of Genocide’ to discuss the tactics & techniques states deploy to legitimise and perpetrate mass murder. Image: Remains of victims of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide retrieved from a mass grave in Huye District in January, 2024. Follow Joe Kassabian [https://bsky.app/profile/jkass99.bsky.social] on Bluesky Listen to Lions Led by Donkeys [https://www.llbdpodcast.com/] 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/]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]   THIS WEEK IN VIOLENCE: Blue Danube [https://www.patreon.com/posts/this-week-in-155956356?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-155989835]For this week’s newsletter, enjoy some brief thoughts on the election results which rolled out of Hungary last week, and what it might mean for that country and Europe now that the American right’s favourite lap-dog is hitting the skids. Sources: Gregory Stanton (1996), ‘Ten Stages of Genocide’, available at Genocide Watch [https://www.genocidewatch.com/tenstages]