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

Tura's show notes

SLAS series conclusion.

Here's the grand transcribed list of reading recommendations:

• Against the Grain (Scott's more recent book)

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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!

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.

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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!

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Production by Casino Socks

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.

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Also check out Vida's extremely good talk on childhood trauma