Episodes

  • 714: Monster (2004)
    Jun 30 2021

    Tura rejoins the podcast with his partner Evie to talk about Naoki Urasawa's manga and anime series Monster.

    Ryan's show notes

    Tura's show notes

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    1 hr and 57 mins
  • 713: Finish One Book, Start a Dozen More (SLAS Conclusion)
    May 15 2021

    SLAS series conclusion.

    Here's the grand transcribed list of reading recommendations:

    • Against the Grain (Scott's more recent book)
    • Discipline & Punish by Michel Foucault
    • Towards a Political Philosophy of Race by Falguni Sheth
    • Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction by Todd May
    • Capital as Power by Nitzan & Bichler
    • Myth of the Machine by Lewis Mumford
    • Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
    • Restoration Agriculture by Mark Shepard
    • A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
    • Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici
    • Anarchy, An Anarchist Program, and The Method of Freedom by Errico Malatesta
    • Anarchy Works by Peter Gelderloos
    • Making Sense of Anarchism by Davide Turcato
    • Post-Civ: A Brief Philosophical & Political Introduction to the Concept of Post-Civilization, by Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness
    • Desert by anonymous
    • Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Freire

    The show notes are also just regular ass notes! There's 80 pages of notes on this book, including some stuff that wasn't covered in the show.

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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • 712: The Old Bear Hunter
    Apr 18 2021

    Ryan, Abdul (The Off Court Pod) and una (Goth Angel Sinners) get together to watch and discuss a very obscure Japanese movie about an aging matagi hunter, his family, and his encounters with a man-eating bear.

    Show Notes

    I've made the movie available for download via my google drive, we'll see how long it lasts. If the link stops working, you can DM me or get it for cheap at Samurai Video.

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    1 hr and 40 mins
  • 711: Yellow Dent Grey Goo (SLAS Ch. 8)
    Apr 12 2021

    Ryan and Christopher (@itmechr3) talk Chapter 8 of Seeing Like a State

    This is part 7 of a series. If you haven't listened to the previous 6 episodes I recommend listening to them first!

    Show Notes

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    1 hr and 47 mins
  • 710: Apparently Tanzanians Need Water?? (SLAS Ch. 7)
    Mar 27 2021

    Ryan and yungneocon discuss this weird aspect of Tanzanian food culture.

    Show Notes

    This is part 6 of a series. If you haven't listened to the previous 5 episodes I recommend listening to them first!

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    1 hr and 55 mins
  • 709: Golden Kamuy, pt. 1
    Mar 14 2021

    Kris and una come on the pod to talk about the anime about eating brains, skinning human corpses, and looking at hot men, as well as the various ethnic minorities of Japan that the series talks about

    Show Notes

    My brain was not working well enough to remember to ask for plugs, so

    Check out Kris's fantasy novel series Dream of the White Stag and una's website anarchy.website

    Episode produced by Casino Socks

    Bibliography

    The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion,1590-1800. Walker, Brett, 2001.

    http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=C9F3B0D7B2A50BF57DF92E598EF7039B 

    Race, resistance and the Ainu of Japan. Siddle, Richard, 2014. Sheffield Centre for Japanese.

    http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=E01360362B90AFC487468919B4FFA1DD 

    Beyond Ainu Studies: Changing Academic and Public Perspectives. Hudson, Mark; Lewallen, Ann-elise; Watson, Mark; 2016.  University of Hawai’i Press.

    http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=D5B2B32BBC2CFA2AB66C667E8F125BE4

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    1 hr and 36 mins
  • 708: Total (Sploshnaia) Collectivization (SLAS Ch. 6)
    Feb 27 2021

    Ryan and Walk In discuss the CIA-sponsored chapter of Seeing Like a State.

    Show Notes

    This is part 5 of a series. If you haven't listened to the previous 4 episodes I recommend listening to them first!

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    1 hr and 37 mins
  • 707: The Commons in the Antebellum South (SLAS Supplemental)
    Feb 21 2021

    Ryan covers the intro to part 3 of Seeing Like a State and takes a slight diversion to read one of the sources cited in that section.

    Show Notes

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    49 mins