Everything Is Police is a new book by Tia Trafford, who argues that institutional and interpersonal policing have been central to colonial modernity, the result of which is a situation where we cannot practically experience or even imagine worlds free from policing. Trafford is joined here in conversation with Melayna Lamb.

Tia Trafford is reader in philosophy and design at University for the Creative Arts in London. They are author of Everything Is Police and The Empire at Home, and coeditor of Alien Vectors.

Melayna Lamb is lecturer at the University of Law, UK, and author of A Philosophical History of Police Power.

EPISODE REFERENCES:

Frank B. Wilderson III

Rinaldo Walcott

The Empire at Home / Tia Trafford

Jared Sexton

Tapji Garba

Sylvia Wynter

Frantz Fanon

Sara-Maria Sorentino

Saidiya Hartman

David Marriott

Biko Mandela Gray

Sylvia Wynter

Sara-Maria Sorentino

Mute Compulsion / Søren Mau

Immanuel Kant

William Wimsatt on generative entrenchment

Red, White & Black / Frank B. Wilderson III

The First Black Slave Society / Hilary Beckles

Sean Capener

Paul Gilroy

Stuart Hall

John Locke

Slavery is a Metaphor / essay by Tapji Garba and Sara-Maria Sorentino, published in Antipode

Taija McDougall

Petero Kalulé

Everything Is Police is available from University of Minnesota Press. An open-access edition is available to read free online at manifold.umn.edu.