In this episode we talk about Alex S. Vitale's The End of Policing and augment that with excerpts from Police: A Field Guide by David Correia and Tyler Wall. Continuing our research into policing, Galen and Budd take a look at police interactions with people with mental health issues, homelessness, and sex work. 

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"Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop"

The End of Policing

In this episode we talk about Alex S. Vitale's The End of Policing and augment that with excerpts from Police: A Field Guide by David Correia and Tyler Wall. In the wake of current protests, Galen and Budd look back at past reforms and body cams, the troubled history of policing in America, and the school-to-prison pipeline. We also have a chat about the use of prison labor (it's a worse system than we ever thought it was).

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The End of Policing

In this episode we talk about the national (even international) protests resulting from the murder of George Floyd, whether police departments should be defunded, and the first half of Zizek's, if not completely groundbreaking, at least speedy release Pandemic! Covid-19 Shakes Up the World.

In this episode we introduce the ludicrously prolific thinker Slavoj Zizek. We discuss his talks with Graham Harman as we transition from reading Harman's Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything to diving into Zizek's Pandemic!

The following texts were recommended to as primers on race relations, the black experience with policing and the justice system, and the history of oppression of people of color in the United States. 

(In the episode we mention sharing our drawings via instagram but that seems so tone-deaf in the days since the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing protests. In lieu of support for this podcast please direct any donations to the Minnesota Freedom Fund.)

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PANDEMIC! COVID-19 SHAKES THE WORLD

In this episode we finish up our unit on OOO. First we delve in to Harman's attacks on Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault; next we get brief introductions to OOO compatriots Ian Bogost, Levi R. Bryant, Timothy Morton, Jane Bennett, and Tristan Garcia; and finally we follow up with an overview of OOO. 

Stay tuned for our next unit on Zizek's Pandemic!

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In this episode we try to understand OOO's debt to Husserl and Heidegger, the 4-fold tension of objects, and a comparison of metaphor and knowledge. Plus, Budd is about to start a Twitter war and Galen still loves his dog. 

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Figure 1 - The Tension of Objects: https://www.instagram.com/p/CAJUkv2hBFb/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

Figure 2 - Knowledge: https://www.instagram.com/p/CAJUwIkhvcm/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

In this episode we talk about Michael Moore's Planet of the Humans (directed by Jeff Gibbs). We discuss the state of film and income inequality, the success of the environmental and green movements, the validity of the complaints against the documentary, and how to move beyond the depressing state of the film to a more optimistic outlook. 

watch the film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk11vI-7czE

Wondering how Object-Oriented Ontology understands and contributes to society and politics? So were we. Now here we are talking about Covid-19, Bruno LaTour's Actor Network Theory (ANT), the American Civil War, and the Dutch East India Company. Learn how symbioses are responsible for the birth, maturity, decadence, and death of an object and wonder if American Capitalism is next on the list of dead objects. 

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This week we take a deeper dive into Graham Harman's OOO text concerning Real Objects, Sensual Objects, Real Qualities, and Sensual Qualities.... it sounds much sexier then it is.

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