Episodes
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
714: Monster (2004)
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
Tura rejoins the podcast with his partner Evie to talk about Naoki Urasawa's manga and anime series Monster.
Saturday May 15, 2021
713: Finish One Book, Start a Dozen More (SLAS Conclusion)
Saturday May 15, 2021
Saturday 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.
Sunday Apr 18, 2021
712: The Old Bear Hunter
Sunday Apr 18, 2021
Sunday 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.
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.
Monday Apr 12, 2021
711: Yellow Dent Grey Goo (SLAS Ch. 8)
Monday Apr 12, 2021
Monday 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!
Saturday Mar 27, 2021
710: Apparently Tanzanians Need Water?? (SLAS Ch. 7)
Saturday Mar 27, 2021
Saturday Mar 27, 2021
Ryan and yungneocon discuss this weird aspect of Tanzanian food culture.
This is part 6 of a series. If you haven't listened to the previous 5 episodes I recommend listening to them first!
Sunday Mar 14, 2021
709: Golden Kamuy, pt. 1
Sunday Mar 14, 2021
Sunday 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
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
Saturday Feb 27, 2021
708: Total (Sploshnaia) Collectivization (SLAS Ch. 6)
Saturday Feb 27, 2021
Saturday Feb 27, 2021
Ryan and Walk In discuss the CIA-sponsored chapter of Seeing Like a State.
This is part 5 of a series. If you haven't listened to the previous 4 episodes I recommend listening to them first!
Sunday Feb 21, 2021
707: The Commons in the Antebellum South (SLAS Supplemental)
Sunday Feb 21, 2021
Sunday 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.
Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
706: Major General Headmaster Foreman Lenin (SLAS Ch. 5)
Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
Franz from Doomer v. Bloomer joins Ryan to talk about Seeing Like a State Chapter 5, which covers Lenin's school teacher/factory foreman/military general conception of revolution.
Check out the Srsly Wrong Book Club here!
Production by Casino Socks
Tuesday Feb 09, 2021
705: The Deeply Uncool Zone (SLAS Ch 3 & 4)
Tuesday Feb 09, 2021
Tuesday Feb 09, 2021
Ryan and Tura cover chapters 3 and 4 of Seeing Like a State by James Scott.
This is part of an ongoing series, I recommend listening to the previous episodes if you haven't already.
Also check out Vida's extremely good talk on childhood trauma