A Vast Accumulation of Corpses: Necropolitics

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Another brilliant episode. Excellent work. Thank you.

How do you consider Russia and present Europe within this framework? all the features are there Russians are "Orcs" with videos of drone attacks being posted seemingly with no problem on social media, rearmament represents an economic frontier to revitalize Europe ect. but unlike most examples it is actually a hostile state and not a nebulous other. Does the arguable existence of the threat change it as an idea? also the logic of the survivor is a good comparison to drones, endless videos of lethal encounters but at a remove certainly does have a psychological impact.

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Fantastic episode I love the theory ones

I’ve already listened to this twice. It helped my thinking in a reflection for the History of Genocide course I’m in right now. Idk if this is the best place to ask, but I have US university access to documents. I’ve come across two this week I know you’d appreciate. Idk how often you come across paywalls but I thought about sending them to you. One is an old article about weapons trade to Rwanda after the collapse of the Cold War and USSR; the other one is about genocide from a sociological framework, and he confronts the inherent violence in ways others haven’t. Can I email these to the blood work email? Or do you have decent access to scholarly articles? I’m sure you read so much and don’t need more readings, but there’s so much information out there. I’d be happy to send documents I come across in my research, but don’t want to waste your time either.

Im curious about Iran, with the Yugoslav wars intervention and maduro as a hit and run, do you think Iran will result in a broad shift in tactics? The weird apocalyptic neuroses pervading our culture has me nervous, that "it's in the air" feeling at looking at how the right views the world, the billionaire bunkers, heck even the leftists getting this feeling the US might fall. I wonder if we'll see larger scale war analogous to the first half of the 20th century. This is certainly some measure of just reflecting the anxieties present in our culture onto this page, but I would like to know y'all's thoughts on if we're at an end, not an apocalypse but a shift like in how the world changed in those vast ways of our grandparents generation

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Im reminded of an encounter I had with my brother where he told me he was moving from New York to Austin to get away from a threat of break ins and violent crime, but despite my having worked security and knowing about violent crime rates, disproving his worry about the likelihood of someone breaking into his house made him furious rather than soothed like most fears. But lo and behold when he moved to Austin and bought a gun he came back to visit at Christmas and talked about people rattling his doorknob trying to break into his home, just this time in Austin.

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